Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?If you ask the folks at the Music Genome Project, the answer is, "Yes!"
Pandora is the product of the Music Genome Project and is a great free tool on a simple, well designed web site that allows you to create up to 100 free stations that are each tailored to your music tastes.
What's the Music Genome Project?
In January of 2000 a group of musicians and music lovers set out to create the music Genome project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Identifying "genes" in music, naming these genes and categorizing music based on these genes.
What does this mean for me? I just want to build a web site?
This will help you keep your sanity while you work!
How do I get started?
You go to Pandora, create an account, type in an artist or song that you like, and Pandora will start playing other music with the same "genes." You'll discover music you never knew you liked and you don't have to hunt through itunes or surf the net to find it, it just plays. If a song you don't like starts playing, you simply give it a "thumbs down" and Pandora promptly says, "sorry about that" and will proceed to never play that song again on your station. You can then "tune" your station with the thumbs up, thumbs down method, adding and subtracting artists as you go.
And if you're into itunes, Pandora will have a link while a song is playing to buy it on itunes, too.
Warning: it's addicting!
What are you listening to right now?
