Now Pandora will never play "Give It All Away" on our Ben Folds Radio station again, and it will play songs that are genetically similar to "Give It All Away" less often. Let's say we don't care for "Give It All Away." To give it a thumbs-down, we left-click on the album art and chose the thumbs-down, "I don't like it" option. We can give any song the station plays either a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down, and providing this feedback instantly changes the station's playlist. Pandora wants us to give it feedback so it can refine the station based on our likes and dislikes. You probably notice in the above image that the trait description begins with "Based on what you've told us so far." It's not just talking about the fact that we like Ben Folds. Pandora explains why it's playing "Give It All Away." In the next section, we'll look at how Pandora uses the musical traits of a song.Ĭlicking on the album art brings up a menu of options. If we type in, say, "Ben Folds" and click the "create" button, we've created a radio station called "Ben Folds Radio" that will only play songs with similar musical traits to Ben Folds' songs. All you do to get started is type a song or artist into the main field of the player. is our interface with the Music Genome Project database. It's Web-based (no download), minimalist and seamless. When you arrive at, the first thing you see is the player, which is pretty sweet.
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You won't find Latin or classical yet: Pandora is in the process of developing a specialized Latin music Genome and is still deep in thought about how to approach the world of classical composition. As of May 2006, the Genome's music library contains 400,000 analyzed songs from 20,000 contemporary artists. The analysis of new music continues every day since Pandora's online launch in August 2005. The Genome is based on an intricate analysis by actual humans (about 20 to 30 minutes per four-minute song) of the music of 10,000 artists from the past 100 years. It's a project that began in January 2000 and took 30 experts in music theory five years to complete. Pandora relies on a Music Genome that consists of 400 musical attributes covering the qualities of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, composition and lyrics. When you create a radio station on Pandora, it uses a pretty radical approach to delivering your personalized selections: Having analyzed the musical structures present in the songs you like, it plays other songs that possess similar musical traits. It doesn't care what other people who like Gomez also like. Pandora has no concept of genre, user connections or ratings. The difference is the Music Genome Project. Pandora delivers Cheap Trick, Modest Mouse and The Vines. TagWorld returns songs by R.E.M., Badly Drawn Boy and Radiohead. Starting with the British band Gomez as the initial input, the first several "matches" from Last.fm include the Doves, Badly Drawn Boy and Radiohead. But while Pandora provides a similar service to Last.fm and TagWorld, it actually works very differently. Internet radio sites like TagWorld, Last.fm and Pandora let you type in a song or artist you like and instantly find other music that might fit your taste. With the advent of Web-based "music-discovery services," though, the art of finding new music has changed. You can scan the music libraries of friends who actually enjoy doing the music-finding legwork. You can trust the Amazon-type "people who bought this also bought" recommendations or listen to radio stations and podcasts waiting to hear something new and appealing.
You can frequent music blogs or message boards. You can spend hours combing Web sites for new artists and listening to clips. When it comes to finding new music for your library, there are a lot of ways you can go.
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