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| From | Stephen Bragg <toddrundgren1@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Pandora: music recommendations |
| Date | Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:16:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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I typed in Jason Falkner and got some funky tunes. Pretty damn cool.
SB
andrea kremer <kremer@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Auditeers -
Fellow Auditeer Marc Nathan just hipped me to the existence of
http://www.pandora.com. I've been playing with it all morning, and frankly
I'm amazed. It's definitely the best
musical-recommendation-generation-engine I've ever seen.
You go to the site and type in the name of an artist you like. It plays a
song by that artist, you rate that particular song, and it begins working
its recommendational magic based on the specific musical qualities of that
song (vocals, harmonies, syncopation, instrumentation, etc.) I typed in
"Death Cab For Cutie" and the 5th recommendation I got was a song by Mike
Viola. That doesn't seem like an intuitive match to me, but clearly, since I
love both artists, they're onto something.
I also noticed that they have both The Gravel Pit and Gigolo Aunts in their
database, so they're obviously hip to the tiny pop-oriented indie artists.
:)
You get 10 free hours of listening -- I have no idea how it remembers who
you are, but it's saved my stations and I know it's not cookie-based, so I'm
inclined to believe it's actually magic -- and after you exhaust them, a
subscription (which I am sorely tempted to buy with money I don't really
have) costs just $36/year.
The ONLY downside: my musical to-buy list has expanded exponentially in the
few hours I've been playing with it.
Knock yourselves out!
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