Yesterday I was listening to Leo Laporte the Tech Guy on KFI and he recommended a music recommendation engine called Pandora to a caller. Over the past year or so I have heard different things about this website, but I had never actually tried it.
In the spirit of trying something new, I signed up for an account from Pandora. I was absoloutely blown away by the quality of this service. A few things draw me to it:
- It’s absoloutely free
- The music is of a very high quality
- It recommends very good music
This engine is very sophisticated. The idea is similar to Yahoo Music’s LaunchCast, but it is much more complex. Initially, you tell it a couple of songs you like, and it recommends songs from there. It takes into account things such as vocals, instruments, major and minor keys, melodies, harmonies, etc.
I told Pandora a couple of songs I like, and out of the next 10 songs it chose, I really liked 9 of them. Most of these were songs that I had never heard of. If you like a song, it also gives you the option to purchase the song on iTunes or Amazon. I think this is a brilliant way to market music online.
I really suggest that you try this service. It can be found at http://www.pandora.com
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I’ve used Pandora on and off when I go on my music pillaging spree. Generally if I like a song, I’ll have TorrentSpy open in another tab and crank in the name of the artist. By the time I’m done cycling through about five or six artists in my existing collection, I’ll have about 25 albums all queued up for downloading and possibly one or two of them complete.
(Also, it’s “absolutely”, since I’m being the Spelling Nazi today.)
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