Create your own iTunes signature

The Digital Music Weblog is pointing to the iTunes Signature Maker this afternoon. It's kind of an odd thing that takes brief snippets of your favorite iTunes tracks (based on your ratings) and mashes them together into a single file. The result is your digital audio "signature." Dr. Jason Freeman is the author of the iTunes signature, and you can read an abstract of his project here.

I tried it out, and the result makes me feel like I'm full of hallucinatory drugs (you can see a list of some of the songs included above). It's kind of a neat idea, though, and I can see how trying to identify the represented songs could be fun. It also might be cool as a dynamic ring tone generator for the ROKR, based on whatever music you currently have on board.

[Via The Digital Music Weblog]