Daryl Goard
Postmodern CriticPandora brings the radio to you (LINK)
June 6th 2008 12:01
LunchTime Friday! Time for the Musical Musings!
Today's super music site is Pandora.
Check out this scenario:
You are having a casual dinner and you want to listen to some jazz. You're not a Jazz aficionado by any means but you do know one artist that you like. Go to Pandora, and type in that artist name and BAM, you have a radio station playing based on that artist. It will play your artist first and then play other songs in the same vein.
Now for the geeky part, Pandora's algorithm analyzes the songs by the artist you typed based on over 400 musical characteristics so it can determine what it thinks you will like on your radio station.
You can then save your radio stations and tweak them ever further by giving a thumbs up (or down) to each tune that is played.
You can check out other users stations and purchase any song you hear via the Amazon or iTunes stores.
You can also get Pandora off your computer, you can listen to your stations on certain cell phones and its supported on several internet radios.
I think this is a great free service and it looks like there is enough vision here to keep it going and make it better.
Today's super music site is Pandora.
Check out this scenario:
You are having a casual dinner and you want to listen to some jazz. You're not a Jazz aficionado by any means but you do know one artist that you like. Go to Pandora, and type in that artist name and BAM, you have a radio station playing based on that artist. It will play your artist first and then play other songs in the same vein.
Now for the geeky part, Pandora's algorithm analyzes the songs by the artist you typed based on over 400 musical characteristics so it can determine what it thinks you will like on your radio station.
You can then save your radio stations and tweak them ever further by giving a thumbs up (or down) to each tune that is played.
You can check out other users stations and purchase any song you hear via the Amazon or iTunes stores.
You can also get Pandora off your computer, you can listen to your stations on certain cell phones and its supported on several internet radios.
I think this is a great free service and it looks like there is enough vision here to keep it going and make it better.
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