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The Automated Fake Album Project

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43 pointsrvivek18 comments

This should really be choosing between two albums generated from the same (artist name, title, cover art), rather than completely different configurations.

I'm finding it difficult to judge fairly when the art, title and album name are different.

That was how we originally built it, but we found it less fun to rate in testing compared to this version. Hopefully the increased votes-per-person outweigh the loss of fidelity.

I think you guys should've just shown one picture at a time and allowed people to upvote or downvote it.

Those sort of contests usually aren't as statistically significant.

The biggest problem is font colours that are unreadable on the background. Obviously that must be an algorithm-too-far for most of the competitors.

Unfortunately, for our team, we had to revert to a version of our generator that was about 5 hours old due to a issue with one of the library dependencies. We didn't catch this until last minute, so basically all of our low-level pixel analysis got thrown out the window.

It appears possible to compare two album covers that were created by the same generator (some of them have pretty distinct styles). Not sure if this was considered, or how it factors into scoring.

I was thinking the same thing - I got a lot of them in a row. If they're using standard techniques for ranking win/loss competitions, they're artificially decreasing the sigma (not entirely correct but, think of it as a margin of error) for no reason.

Funny, a website based on giving out coding problems didn't realize that coding bug. Then again, I've experienced tons of bugs when I was playing with their main software, so I'm not surprised.

As someone who competed in this contest, that wouldn't be the only bug. There was a lot of bugs in the submission/grading process - so much so that my team got frustrated enough to leave early.

We had glitches agreed because the kind of problems we introduced were the first for us - Game simulation. We have been doing ACM style programming contests which works brilliantly, this was an experiment. We know our mistakes and this will rock next time. Thanks for participating.

There's bias introduced based on the visual appearance, some of the fonts used are terrible - and (as mentioned) the contrast.

Can't... choose...! http://cl.ly/3L0d0F1A0r0E3z231R0X

Fun contest - I'd love to see the winners when this is all over :)

I made this generator a couple of years ago... http://www.makemyalbumcover.com/

This is my favorite so far...

http://imgur.com/XY6Uj

Nice URL naming..../facemash

I saw this "generate album art 'algorithm' " on a 4chan thread three years ago when I used to frequent there. Brings back memories.

Reminds me of the Album cover generator. http://albums.demozoo.org/

as someone who finds it easier to produce sounds than to give them useful and meaningful names after the fact, i love this. if i found a version that can deterministically generate a full ID3 tag of generated info given any mp3 input, i'd use it daily to fight the scourge of files named lkajf_39_q.mp3 in my output bin.

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