About Us
Technology
Goombah, a free online application for music discovery, is a web-based service that uses a unique methodology to deliver the best recommendations to music lovers. Building on information from its desktop application launched in late 2006, Goombah analyzes the music and play patterns in music libraries to determine what mix of music people really like. Rather than analyzing components of tracks or linking similar artists together, Goombah uses the music taste of thousands of clusters of real people to make recommendations. The result is recommendations that are less predictable and more relevant. With more than 16 million tracks in user libraries, the music discovered with Goombah is targeted and full of delightful surprises – not just more of the same. Users enjoy a great listening experience playing the full-length of recommended tracks.
Free music is also targeted to users based on their taste. Goombah’s Free Music catalog currently contains nearly 10,000 tracks sourced from labels. Users can play their recommendations radio-style, save playlists and download the tracks they like.
Goombah builds knowledge of each new user’s musical taste based on their selections, plays and rankings. Power users can let Goombah look at their music library to get the most precise recommendations right out of the gate.
Goombah has developed a proprietary taste-based content server that precisely delivers music and related content to individuals based on their music taste. Users get content they are interested in such as articles and new music releases from artists they have or are apt to like, and the advertiser gets to reach his/her audience directly and efficiently. Goombah has signed agreements with more than a dozen leading music content providers including Paste, Popmatters and Blueswax to serve their content to Goombah users based on musical taste.
The Goombah desktop application is based on several patent pending technologies for its algorithms and method of distributed processing. Goombah's unique architecture yields great music recommendations, infinite scalability, and low infrastructure cost. Goombah solves a large computational problem without stripping away detail. For users, our technology enables us to provide better recommendations by capturing the emotional connection of people and their music. Goombah is open to the entire universe of music with no limits - whatever members are playing on any player, not just categorized music. Already Goombah's offering draws recommendations from more than 16 million unique songs in members' collections.