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I heard about this from the Inside the Net podcast that I’ve started listening to lately… I thought it was amazing, so of course I wanted to share it here.
We’ve all seen the slew of music recommendation services available online now. Amazon has it, iTunes has it, etc. You’re checking out a band, it recommends the most popular “similar” music. Except it’s hard to find “new” music through services like that.
Pandora Media is looking to change all that. Instead of a communal recommendation system, they’re cataloging and tagging music song-by-song on lots of different levels – everything from the genre down to the type of voice.
Simply go to the Pandora site, (sign up for an account if you wish) put in an artist or group that you like, and it automatically puts together a streaming playlist of music that it thinks you’ll like based on your input. What if a song comes up that you like? Click the album art and give it a thumbs up – Pandora learns from that input and reshuffles the playlist according to that information. What if a song comes up that’s really not your style? Same thing – give it a thumbs down and it learns to avoid music like that.
As of the time of the podcast (which was from early January) they had a library of several hundred thousand songs, from 15000+ artists. It’s really quite a decent service. You can create your own custom playlists based on your unique musical tastes.
Seriously, give it a try. This service is amazing.
Nice find. I am already a fan of this website. You can give a try to CTRAX service, http://media.cdigix.com/ . Thats my personal favorite website. The service there is way much better than that in iTunes website.
My cousin showed this to me the other day. Really a great site. It’s a good way to find more of the type of music you like and learn of new artists.
I’v been using it for a while now. It really is pretty cool. I don’t understand how it can be legal though? Anyway it’s definelty worth a look at the very least.
Qwerty wrote:I’v been using it for a while now. It really is pretty cool. I don’t understand how it can be legal though? Anyway it’s definelty worth a look at the very least.it’s legal because it’s all streaming audio, with no download capacity. you can only ‘skip’ 10 songs in an hour’s period, and it helps bring out indie groups that you might not have heard of otherwise. they provide a link to buy the song from iTunes or the album from Amazon. music companies have actually been excited about this project, as it gives them new ways to get their artists known.
I have to bump this thread. I have been using Pandora for a while, and I think it has lately gotten a lot better at finding music that is similar to your seeds. I use it almost exclusively as my music source wherever I have an internet connection these days 😎
I have a problem with it getting “stuck” on a certain genre. I have a mix of rock, techno and pop seeded, and it tends to get stuck on one type for hours.
I also use openpandora – OpenPandora 0.6.8, which lets me control the flash player with the keyboard media keys.
David;231284 wrote:I have a problem with it getting “stuck” on a certain genre. I have a mix of rock, techno and pop seeded, and it tends to get stuck on one type for hours.I have set up separate stations for each genre (and each sub-genre actually). I sometimes have very specific music desires :p I have also found that Pandora tends to change things up more if you skip songs (or thumbs down songs).
David;231284 wrote:I also use openpandora – OpenPandora 0.6.8, which lets me control the flash player with the keyboard media keys.THIS IS EXCELLENT! I actually just left feedback with Pandora asking for some way to control it with my keyboard controls sometime last week! Thank you for posting this! :woot::woot::woot:
@VvWolverinevV 231285 wrote:
I have set up separate stations for each genre (and each sub-genre actually). I sometimes have very specific music desires :p I have also found that Pandora tends to change things up more if you skip songs (or thumbs down songs).
[/quote]Yeah I tend to thumb up/down lots of songs. it’s not that I don’t like it, its that it isn’t mixed… a minor issue though.
Quote:THIS IS EXCELLENT! I actually just left feedback with Pandora asking for some way to control it with my keyboard controls sometime last week! Thank you for posting this! :woot::woot::woot:Yeah, that was my original barrier for entry, because I’m big on tapping my PausePlay button to take a call, or watch a movie, I hardly bring up the interface unless I’m rating a song.
Do note though, that there is a memory problem with this, sometimes when I leave it running for days, it consumes a ~200mb of memory. It’s open source, and C#, so I keep meaning to go through it and see what the problem is (and remove that stupid skin)…
David;231284 wrote:I have a problem with it getting “stuck” on a certain genre. I have a mix of rock, techno and pop seeded, and it tends to get stuck on one type for hours.I also use openpandora – OpenPandora 0.6.8, which lets me control the flash player with the keyboard media keys.
Creating stations by genre is NOT the best way to use Pandora. There was one day when Pandora even pointed this out to me. You should be perfectly fine if you enter in one of your favorite artists or tracks rather than a genre.
For example, I created a radio station from the “Trance” genre and it actually had quite a difficult time searching for songs to play. So instead, I created an artist radio station “Armin van Buuren” and it basically gave me all the electronic trance music I could ever listen to.
Just a small tip.
@AwesomeSauce 231300 wrote:
Creating stations by genre is NOT the best way to use Pandora. There was one day when Pandora even pointed this out to me. You should be perfectly fine if you enter in one of your favorite artists or tracks rather than a genre.
For example, I created a radio station from the “Trance” genre and it actually had quite a difficult time searching for songs to play. So instead, I created an artist radio station “Armin van Buuren” and it basically gave me all the electronic trance music I could ever listen to.
Just a small tip.
I didn’t add genre’s. I added around 40 artists, would you rather I listed them?
David;231302 wrote:I didn’t add genre’s. I added around 40 artists, would you rather I listed them?From your wording I had assumed that you had a station created from a genre rather than artists.
I’m also assuming that when you say “stuck” you mean that the Pandora player simply pauses in order to find the next track to play. Thanks.
@AwesomeSauce 231305 wrote:
I’m also assuming that when you say “stuck” you mean that the Pandora player simply pauses in order to find the next track to play. Thanks.
No. =p
I mean it plays tracks from only one type of seed, or a smal subset of alike seeds.
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