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'''Pandora is a music discovery service.''' | '''Pandora is a music discovery service, only available in the US.''' | ||
URL = http://www.pandora.com | URL = http://www.pandora.com | ||
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=Description= | =Description= | ||
"Bit by bit, Pandora’s music analysts have built a massive archive of data, cataloging the minute characteristics of more than 500,000 songs, from alt-country to bossa nova to metal to gospel, for what is known as the Music Genome Project. | "Bit by bit, Pandora’s music analysts have built a massive archive of data, cataloging the minute characteristics of more than 500,000 songs, from alt-country to bossa nova to metal to gospel, for what is known as the [[Music Genome Project]]. | ||
At pandora.com visitors are invited to enter the name of their favorite artist or song and to get in return a stream of music with similar “DNA, | At pandora.com visitors are invited to enter the name of their favorite artist or song and to get in return a stream of music with similar “DNA,�? in effect a private Internet radio station microtailored to each user’s tastes." | ||
([http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03leed.html?]) | ([http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03leed.html?]) | ||
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=More Information= | =More Information= | ||
See our entry on the [[Decentralization of Taste]] | #See our entry on the [[Decentralization of Taste]] | ||
#Review by Robin Good at [http://www.masternewmedia.org/music_radio/music_personalization create_custom_music_radio_station_Pandora_20050829.htm] | |||
Review by Robin Good at | #Pandora is mentioned in the article the New Tastemakers by the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03leed.html?] | ||
[http://www.masternewmedia.org/music_radio/music_personalization | #Bio treatment of founder Tim Westergren, at http://thinnerism.cc/2007/10/28/music20-overview-–-part-4-tim-westergren-the-music-genome-project-and-pandora/ | ||
Pandora is mentioned in the article the New Tastemakers by the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03leed.html?] | |||
Revision as of 04:18, 10 June 2008
Pandora is a music discovery service, only available in the US.
URL = http://www.pandora.com
Description
"Bit by bit, Pandora’s music analysts have built a massive archive of data, cataloging the minute characteristics of more than 500,000 songs, from alt-country to bossa nova to metal to gospel, for what is known as the Music Genome Project.
At pandora.com visitors are invited to enter the name of their favorite artist or song and to get in return a stream of music with similar “DNA,�? in effect a private Internet radio station microtailored to each user’s tastes." ([1])
More Information
- See our entry on the Decentralization of Taste
- Review by Robin Good at create_custom_music_radio_station_Pandora_20050829.htm
- Pandora is mentioned in the article the New Tastemakers by the New York Times [2]
- Bio treatment of founder Tim Westergren, at http://thinnerism.cc/2007/10/28/music20-overview-–-part-4-tim-westergren-the-music-genome-project-and-pandora/