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Following on the heals of Major Miner is a new music labeling game called The Listen Game - in the Listen Game, you work to try to pick the best label for a music clip in a way that agrees with others. The more you agree, the more points you get. The game is fun, a bit addicting, and the data that they collect is used to improve music retrieval.    The game does have a few  glitches (what do you do when your goal is to label the vocals and there are no vocals?), but all in all it was fun way to spend a lunch hour (I played more rounds that I ought to have, trying to break 500). 

The Listen Game was put together by MIR researcher Douglas Turnbull.  You can read more info about the project on his research page.

With all of these researchers looking at social tags I have a feeling we are going to see a lot of folksonomic papers at ISMIR .  In fact I suggest that we change the name of ISMIR this year to "Isn't Social Music Incredibly Rad!"