Pandora Radio - the Music Genome Project - Good Stuff!
I discovered Pandora quite some time ago, and have been working on honing and poking at my station - Shadeaux Planet - for some time. I’ve also got a couple of others started, but I’ve worked on my own longest.
“On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.
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…” –> Read The Rest at Pandora’s Site!
06/20/08, 8:41 PM |
I’ll check out Shadeaux Planet. I’ve been listening to Pandora for a long while; love it. The stations do play pretty much what I want to hear, and it’s still free. Is goot.
06/20/08, 8:48 PM |
Yep, and it gets better and shifts as you go through and play with it. Remove stuff, add stuff…it learns. One of the people who works there follows me on Twitter, so I’m hoping to learn more about The Genome Project “innards” from them.