Pandora

Friday, January 06, 2006

I recently found a really cool site, Pandora. It is an interesting site where you type the name of a song or artist that you like, and for no charge, it will search it's seemingly very large database of songs for artists that are similar to the one you searched, or songs that are similar to one that you searched. It then creates a "radio" station that you can click on later to return to a previous search.

It is called: The Music Genome Project.

It really is quite neat. I searched "One Night in Bankok" by "Murray Head" and it is now feeding me songs based on "electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmonies, mild rythmic syncopation, minor key tonality, and prominent use of synth."

I also searched "Coldplay" and it gave me songs based on "basic rock song structures, mild rythmic syncopation, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation, a vocal-centric aesthetic and a minor key tonality."

If you plan on joining and live in Canada, you may want to use a US postal code, because apparently it is illegal in Canada :P

EDIT: Apparently their library contains approximately 300,000 songs from over 10,000 artists. And it's not illegal in Canada, they just don't have anaudio streaming license for Canada.

6:24 PM | Permalink

FINALLY he posts!!! ;-)

Great find, Will. It seems quite clever and very addictive.

Posted by Rushan | January 06, 2006 8:14 PM

You write as though nothing happened and you haven't NOT posted in the last several weeks. ;)

I'll check out that site later though.

Posted by Charlie | January 06, 2006 8:34 PM

oh man that site is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet find...thats great!

Posted by Nick | January 07, 2006 9:12 AM

I just checked the site out and damn, THANK YOU.!!!

I can't understand how they're paying for this... I mean they couldn't possibly have that many subscribers, although I'll definitely now have to tell people about it.

Posted by Charlie | January 07, 2006 11:21 AM

Pretty cool eh? The thing I don't understand is that the only thing better about it if you subscribe is there are no ads...they should add some cool features for paying users only. I think they should have a search for styles of music, not just songs and artists, but hey, you can't have everything :P

Posted by Will | January 07, 2006 12:40 PM

So..........................

There seems to be an awkward silence here at the moment.

Any reason?

Posted by Rushan | January 12, 2006 4:06 PM

I've been banned from the computer for a week, in case you were wondering.

Posted by Will | January 12, 2006 10:29 PM

OK....I'll let you off this time then!

Posted by Rushan | January 12, 2006 11:14 PM

I'm so into it too Will. Except it's crap on dial-up.

But I might have highspeed at the next place!!!!

Posted by Reese | January 16, 2006 2:17 AM