If you like Listen Game, please help us get the word out. Here are three ways you can help:

1) Email your friends and invite them to join Listen Game

2) Create an online buzz by talking about Listen Game on Reddit, del.icio.us, Digg, ...

3) Lots of blogs are already talking about Listen Game - is yours?

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Listen Game worked yesterday, but doesn't work today. What gives?

Try closing and restarting your browser. The game is still under development and we are constantly updating the code often based on feedback from users. This means that the client applet gets outdated and needs to be reloaded periodically.

When I click "Play", I get a message saying 'Error: no Java Virtual Machine Found'

To play the game, you need to have recent version of the Java JRE brower pluggin (version 1.5 or later). To get this free and easy-to-install pluggin, go to www.java.com/getjava/.

The game says: 'Could not load clips. Waiting for next round.'

Once you press "Play", we try to connect you with everyone else and get you playing Listen Game as soon as possible. However, since there may already be a game in progess, you may have to wait a short while until the next round is ready to accept new players. Wait about 20 seconds, the song for the next round will load and you can start playing.

The game says: 'could not connect to server'

You maybe behind a firewall or have security settings that prevent our server from connecting to your game applet. For example, your firewall might prevent us from streaming audio or opening a network connection. You will have to talk to your network administrator about this problem.

That didn't work! It still says: 'could not connect to server'

It's unlikely, but the server may be down for maintainance. In this case, please send us an email at listengame@gmail.com or wait a few minutes to give us time to fix the problem, restart your browser and start playing.

Listen Game causes my browser to crash / freeze / start crying / ...

While we have done everything possible to make Listen Game as robust as possible, we're still ironing our some bugs. If anything strange, unpleasant or unexpected happens, or if you just have a good idea about how we could make Listen Game better, please send us email at listengame@gmail.com. Please include information about what browser / operating system you're using, what exactly you were doing when the problem occurred and anything else that you can think of that will help us to solve the problem.

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Listen is a game that lets you tell others what you think about music. It also lets you hear what other people think about music.
Music is a subjective form of art. We all have our own unique experince when listening to a song. Even though you might think that "Hangin' Tough" by New Kids on the Block is "explosive and revolutionary", your friend may think it's "cheesy and annoying". Play Listen Game and see if the world agrees with you!

It's fun! Also, while you play Listen Game, we listen to what you say about music. We use your opinions to build a musical search engine. Just a like an Internet search engine that finds web pages, our search engine uses your musical taste to help you find music that you want to listen to.

Listen Game is brought to you by the Computer Audition Laboratory at UC San Diego. Doug Turnbull, Roy Liu, and Luke Barrington developed this game under the supervision of Prof. Gert Lanckriet.
Please email us at listengame@gmail.com with your comments, questions, and recommendations...

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You and players from around the world simultaneously listen to short music clips. Each Listen Game consists of seven clips.
 

While you listen, we list 6 relevant words.
 

Pick one word that •best describes the music and another word that worst• describes the music.
 

Score points by choosing words that other Listeners agree upon.
It's your opinion - no right and wrong.
 

Suggest your own word to describe the music you hear.
In the round that follows, your word will be presented to other players.
If they choose your suggestion, you get points.