those who know me know that I am quite impatient, and that is probably understating it. Because of this – I have never really listened to a lot of music. My problem is that I like one particular song by a particular artist – or I like that artists style across a whole album. Either way I can just not be bothered allocating the time required to find similar music.
My solution has now arrived in the form of Pandora Internet Radio. This is a fairly established service that I had never really given a chance to impress me, but after some glowing reports from friends I thought I would give it a try.
The premis behind pandora is quite simple, every song has a sort of DNA – the things that make is unique. This data is stored in the music genome project. What pandora does with this data is truly amazing. By telling it a particular song or artist that you like, compliations of tracks are created for you (which pandora calls stations). Over time by saying that you like or dislike particular tracks – you can end up with a station that plays music that you really like track after track.
I have spent some time teaching pandora about the type of music I like and have ended up with a fairly cool lounge station.
All in all this is a fantastic and very cheap service that I recommend highly.
