Pandora: This is too cool!

If you absolutely have to have your music to code, Discover Music - Pandora, is just too cool for words. Over 5 years ago, The Music Genome Project started an incredibly ambitious project: analyze the music by 10,000 musicians to define the DNA of music.
DNA of Music? Huh?
What makes you like a certain piece of music, say anything Peter Gabriel has written? If you knew, and you could database that, and then database a few hundred thousand other pieces of music, you could tell me what other music you'd like and get it right with a very high level of accuracy.

That's Pandora. 20 songs so far, all good or great, some from other artists I like, but some from people I've never heard of ("Cake?, who dat?").

Now put a web 2.0 interface on it, let people either pay for it or see ads and listen for the avalanche....

Very Cool. Highly recommended.

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2 hours later... I'm proofing the .pdf of chapter 2 of my forthcoming book, and its time to create a new channel in Pandora. Time for a Dave Brubeck channel. Second song that Pandora finds for me is Hastings Street Bounce by Pepper Adams: I've never heard of Pepper Adams, but it's exactly what I like when I'm in the mood for Brubeck. Too cool for words: I'm in love!

Comments

[Thomas Wolfe]

You have just improved my life, again!

Thanks