Ever had a party ruined by your host’s atrocious taste in music? Then you might welcome a system that polls the musical preferences of party-goers and creates a playlist to keep everyone happy.
Developed by computer scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, US, the Smart Party system relies on people carrying Wi-Fi-enabled music-playing devices.
Software running on each device beams each user’s playlist to a nearby computer, which is connected to an amp and speakers.
The computer takes a poll of titles to work out the most popular genre and can also copy and play tracks from each…
