Pandora Radio from Music Genome Project

kramthegram writes "The Music Genome Project, an attempt to define music by it's traits in a way similar to DNA defines traits in humans has led to the development of Pandora. Pandora uses the song choices you make to see what traits appeal to you and present you with custom radio station. While limiting you to thumbs up or thumbs down, the "gene" heuristics allows for a very quick adaptation to your musical tastes." Not sure how deep it goes, and I'm not sure I like that it led me from The Who to Styx and Def Leppard. But this is a neat little tool for discovering new music.

Comments

Hurray!

[rbochan]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/173021 5&tid=141&tid=187
At least this one took over a month.

It gives music a user may actually want!?

[Jugalator]

Sue them!!

-- RIAA

(the funny/scary part is that it's not far fetched to me that they actually will, for being too accurate in handing out music a user wants to listen to)

Re:But

[Phanatic1a]

This does work pretty well. Right now, I'm listening to Norwegian Death Metal:

"Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features vocals similar to cats being tortured, drum tracks with the subtlety of a wrecking ball, a bare modicum of musical talent, and a complete disregard for human life."

Re:But

[xtracto]

Man, I do not like this Pandora thing, I tried to use it and entered "Britney Spears" as an artist and it said:

"Based on what you've told us so far, we wont play anything, WTF! Britney Spears? what fucking shitty kind of music do you listen? get the fuck out of here!"