Pandora: The Music Genome Project
Posted by E@zyVG | Filed under Web
Though this is not something new, I noticed that we have nothing about it, and decided to include this small intro and review here as I really like it a lot and think that readers will also appreciate this cool stuff which is related to music.
Team, a group of musicians + Music + Internet + Awesome Idea = Pandora
They put forth a question: Can you help me discover more music that I like?
And guess what … they come up with this solution that creates a playlist matching to which artist you like, or the song you like … and it actually works … simple and elegant solutions.
The Music Genome Project’s database is built using a methodology thatincludes the use of precisely defined terminology, a consistent frame of reference, redundant analysis, and ongoing quality control to ensure that data integrity remains reliably high. Pandora does not use machine-listening or other forms of automated data extraction.
According to their website:
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
No matter what, they are definitely one of my preffered DJs … it even beats live streaming radio broadcasts (personal or professional).
There are of course few more features that I would like to see in future.
And those licenses/patents instances once again makes your pleasure $%^&** … u know!
As this is not a stand-alone application, it means that you can use it on any OS, as long as your browser has support for Flash.
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June 12, 2006 at 2:07 pm
I listen to Pandora… every. day. It’s simple to use, even my Mom is hooked on it now w/ about 10 channels. I love that your favorites page has an RSS feed too – I’m using the feed to display my fav’s in my author bio.
Pandora is really a great idea. The thing that sets it apart is its music classification/database. Light-years beyond the ‘other people who liked this also liked’ crap.