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Leveraging Millions of Tracks to Surprise and Satisfy Music Lover
FlyFi uses patent pending technology to deliver the best and most comprehensive recommendations to music lovers. Building on information from its desktop application launched in 2005 (called Goombah), FlyFi analyzes music and play patterns in music libraries to determine what mix of music people really like. But rather than just analyzing components of tracks or linking similar artists together, like other sites, FlyFi uses the music taste of thousands of clusters of real people to make recommendations. The result is new music that's far less predictable and far more relevant. At last count, over 16 million tracks in user libraries were being used to create FlyFi recommendations just for you. The music discovered with FlyFi is targeted and full of delightful surprises–not just more of the same.

Let’s Get Personal With Free Music and More
FlyFi has a free music catalog with over 10,000 tracks sourced from a variety of labels. And like all of FlyFi’s recommendations, free music is also targeted and based on your personal taste. Plus, with FlyFi’s player you enjoy a great listening experience thanks to full-length recommended tracks–no short clips or teaser snippets here. So you can play the recommendations radio-style, save playlists and download the full tracks you like. Beyond music, FlyFi builds knowledge of your musical taste based on your selections and delivers music-related content. From articles, info on new releases to unsigned artists, you get content that is consistent with your tastes and preferences. FlyFi has signed agreements with more than a dozen leading music content providers including Paste, Popmatters and Blueswax to serve their content to FlyFi users based on musical taste.

Using iTunes To Make Even Better Recommendations
The FlyFi iTunes Helper is based on several patent pending technologies for its algorithms and method of distributed processing. FlyFi's unique architecture yields great music recommendations, infinite scalability and low infrastructure cost. FlyFi solves a large computational problem without stripping away detail. This technology enables us to provide better recommendations by capturing the emotional connection of people and their music. FlyFi is open to the entire universe of music with no limits–whatever members are playing on any player, and not just categorized music.