Los Angeles - Automatic music recommendation service Mufin has launched a public beta, and is now offering applications that connect with iTunes and Facebook. The service has analyzed the actual sounds of some 4 million tracks, and based on these acoustical characteristics, can compile playlists of songs that sound similar to one another.

Berlin - Mufin on Wednesday announced the beta launch of its new audio fingerprinting and music discovery service. Co-developed at the Fraunhofer Institute -- which invented the MP3 format -- Mufin's (short for "Music Finder") technology automatically generates a unique audio fingerprint of a song, based on more than 40 acoustical characteristics. The company launched with over three million songs from major and independent labels in its library, and is offering a MySpace widget.