Pandora.com
Just had to throw this one out there, if you haven’t tried pandora.com yet. Pandora.com uses the Music Genome Project to suggest music that you probably like based on your current musical interests. The flash app starts off by asking you for a favorite artist or song. It then starts playing music selections back to you, music that has similar musical qualities as the suggestion that you gave them. For any song thats playing you can ask pandora.com why it played that particular song, and it will tell you how it relates to your musical preferences. You can also tell it more music that you like, so it can refine its suggestions back to you, the more you tell it, the better then suggestions can be. One thing I’m not sure about it how they can play all this music back without violating copyright restrictions, I’ll have to look into that. But in any case, check it out, its a pretty cool website.
[Update]: They have annual and quarterly subscriptions, as well as a free version with commercials.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on December 15, 2005 @ 8:32 pm
wow.. that is very cool! I’ve heard music in the past hour that I love and never knew existed
Thanks for the post!
breichelt said,
Wrote on December 15, 2005 @ 11:25 pm
I know, its crazy, they do a great job of picking new music that I’d never heard of, yet its all good stuff!
Anonymous said,
Wrote on January 4, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
I’m a little late here, just tried it out for the first time today. Already heard a couple of great songs by artists I didn’t know before. The big bummer though, is that as far as I can tell you can’t listen to a song again without typing in a search for that song. Even if I add something to my favorites list it only gives me links to buy it.
breichelt said,
Wrote on January 5, 2006 @ 9:33 am
Yeah, its not neccessarily good for managing a playlist or anything, but it does suggest some pretty relevant stuff