Super Cool: Pandora Internet Radio
Pandora Internet Radio
This is pretty damn cool, if you like music. Pandora Radio is a result of the Music Genome Project.
Tim Westergren, the founder of the Music Genome Project, describes the project:
So basically, you type in an artist or song that you like, and Pandora creates a radio station with music that shares the same musical attributes. You can rate each song (thumbs up or thumbs down), so the radio can get to know even better what you want to hear and what you don't want to hear. You can find out why Pandora has chosen any song. You can create up to 100 personalized stations.
Very cool.
So far, I've created the following radio stations:
Tori Amos Radio
R.E.M. Radio
Prince
Elliott Smith Radio
David Bowie Radio
Depeche Mode Radio
The Coral Radio
And just now, I am listening to R.E.M Radio... Pandora is playing a song called Big Darkness by a band called Crooked Fingers. I've never heard of them before, but I like what I hear so far.
This is pretty damn cool, if you like music. Pandora Radio is a result of the Music Genome Project.
Tim Westergren, the founder of the Music Genome Project, describes the project:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
So basically, you type in an artist or song that you like, and Pandora creates a radio station with music that shares the same musical attributes. You can rate each song (thumbs up or thumbs down), so the radio can get to know even better what you want to hear and what you don't want to hear. You can find out why Pandora has chosen any song. You can create up to 100 personalized stations.
Very cool.
So far, I've created the following radio stations:
Tori Amos Radio
R.E.M. Radio
Prince
Elliott Smith Radio
David Bowie Radio
Depeche Mode Radio
The Coral Radio
And just now, I am listening to R.E.M Radio... Pandora is playing a song called Big Darkness by a band called Crooked Fingers. I've never heard of them before, but I like what I hear so far.
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