Find New Music You Already Like: Pandora
A few weeks back we had a thread, "F**k The Beatles, What New Music Are You Listening To." It was fun and informative, but I came with two thoughs: one, how much great new music there is that I am missing; and two, how hard it is to find music you like considering how little time we have, and how much stuff there is to pick through.
I think found the answer in Pandora. Pandora is an amazing online music service that allows you to program your own personal radio stations, based on music you know you already like. But Pandora does more than just play the music you've told it you like, it plays the music you didn't even know you liked.
Pandora is the child of the Music Genome Project (MGP). The MGP is a group of musicians and techies who came together to create the most comprehensive analysis of music
ever done The MGP identified hundreds of musical attributes or "genes". These individual genes, strung together like DNA, capture the unique qualities of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, singing and vocal harmony. Over the past 6 years, the MGP has analyzed the DNA of the music of over 10,000 different artists, ranging from popular to obscure, and continue analyze new music.
The problem, the MGP found, was how to use this wealth data they collected on popular (and not-so popular) music. The solution was Pandora, and it is an amazing tool.
The Pandora web app works simply and elegantly, smoothly transitionaing between songs (both visually and sonically), with CD quality audio, and the usual assortment of music player controls. Pandora, however, also gives you Tivo-like "thumbs up/thumbs down" control over the music, allowing you to refine the stations you've created, and literally teach Pandora about your musical preferences. Press "thumbs up" on a song and you tell Pandora, "Yes more like this, please." Press "thumbs down" and you let Pandora know that its missed the mark on your musical tastes. Pandora then refines its choices for your station based on your input.
There are lots of other nice features, like the abiltity to create a new station based on the artist or song that's playing, or the abiltity to buy the song from iTunes, or album from Amazon right from within Pandora, to name a few.
Try it our for yourself and let us know what new music you've found, or better yet, share your station with us (another Pandora feature) and we'll listen for ourselves.
http://www.pandora.com/
I think found the answer in Pandora. Pandora is an amazing online music service that allows you to program your own personal radio stations, based on music you know you already like. But Pandora does more than just play the music you've told it you like, it plays the music you didn't even know you liked.
Pandora is the child of the Music Genome Project (MGP). The MGP is a group of musicians and techies who came together to create the most comprehensive analysis of music
ever done The MGP identified hundreds of musical attributes or "genes". These individual genes, strung together like DNA, capture the unique qualities of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, singing and vocal harmony. Over the past 6 years, the MGP has analyzed the DNA of the music of over 10,000 different artists, ranging from popular to obscure, and continue analyze new music.
The problem, the MGP found, was how to use this wealth data they collected on popular (and not-so popular) music. The solution was Pandora, and it is an amazing tool.
The Pandora web app works simply and elegantly, smoothly transitionaing between songs (both visually and sonically), with CD quality audio, and the usual assortment of music player controls. Pandora, however, also gives you Tivo-like "thumbs up/thumbs down" control over the music, allowing you to refine the stations you've created, and literally teach Pandora about your musical preferences. Press "thumbs up" on a song and you tell Pandora, "Yes more like this, please." Press "thumbs down" and you let Pandora know that its missed the mark on your musical tastes. Pandora then refines its choices for your station based on your input.
There are lots of other nice features, like the abiltity to create a new station based on the artist or song that's playing, or the abiltity to buy the song from iTunes, or album from Amazon right from within Pandora, to name a few.
Try it our for yourself and let us know what new music you've found, or better yet, share your station with us (another Pandora feature) and we'll listen for ourselves.
http://www.pandora.com/
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2 Comments:
very cool, try it out all....
i have been playing with it for 2 days, it is very cool, better than my ipod as far as selection. a must have
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