Pandora (Discover New Music)

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:16 am

Dokidoki told me about this site and some of you may be interested in trying it out. It's http://www.pandora.com/ and it's part of the Music Genome Project.

This is a pay service, but the first ten hours are free. You give them the name of a song or artist, and the site will start streaming back music that is similar based on "genetic" attributes that they have identified.

I typed in "Ferry Corsten" and it started off with his latest hit, "Punk". The songs that followed were by other artists: not really music I liked, but not bad and still sounding close to "Punk". Right now it's playing Corsten's "In My Dreams" which is my fave Corsten song, but it doesn't sound much like "Punk".

OK, now it's starting with Junkie XL's Animatrix edit of "Beauty Never Fades". Gonna let this play awhile and see (hear) what comes up.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:03 am

i love you, in a non-prison movie sorta way

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:31 am

Yeah, this looks really cool, but 56k makes it just a little slow for me.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:28 pm

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.

humm, i don't think that really works in finding songs you would really like. a song is more than the sum of its parts. the reason i like certain songs aren't because they sound the same...

launch.yahoo.com and last.fm recommend songs based on other users with similar musical preferences. it works pretty well, but at the same time, it's biased by band popularity. it'd be interesting to compare these three sites.