Pandora is a music streaming automated recommendation service that utilizes the Music Genome Project. 400 musical attributes are considered in song selection, those 400 attributes are combined in criss cross ways making up 2000 features titled focus traits to produce a unique station suited just for your specific tastes. It’s really awesome.
I hooked up with them the Christmas of 2012 after reading about using them for holiday party background music. I subscribe to a number of different magazine newsletters through email, home decor, DIY projects, recipes and in general up to date entertainment for all things good living. After seeing the Pandora.com name I was curious and decided to take a look. No downloads just a simple, open the web site and click on an already produced station, lots to choose from. I did that for a time all the while offering my thumbs up or down to music I either loved or didn’t. That’s what it’s all about, getting what you want to listen to.
So satisfied with the play lists as well as the type of music I stepped out and started my own station, all my favorites, genres, decades, styles, artists and Pandora added to my compilation by using the music genome selecting other things I may like and enjoy. Sometimes working at the computer is tough because the music is so good I can’t concentrate on reading or writing reliving a special time gone by or just getting into the beat.
By my choices Pandora realized I liked R&B and my favorite female vocalist being Mariah Carey. So they emailed me with a Mariah Carey station which plays really well, Usher, Rihanna, and Boyz to Men. Since I thumbed up Boyz to Men they took it further and introduced music from the cross over boy bands, New Kids, 98*, NSYNC and OMG my heartbeat, the Back Street Boys. Recently Pandora got really sharp and sent me another radio station made up just for me called “Back Street Boys radio”. Are you kidding me, they should have called it “Heaven”. Check out Pandora if you haven’t already, you’ll love me and curse me all in the same breath. I use two browsers, one for the radio and then dock it and one for working in, less chance of overload on Safari. Nothing wrong with feeling young again, trust me the mirror will set you straight soon enough.
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