Opening Pandora’s Box
In case you don’t know, The Music Genome Project is a project designed to map music with codes like a DNA sequence and thus, with minor input from the user, map his favorite music.
The Project has obviously gone a long way because we now have Pandora which is the engine of the Music Genome Project. You activate it, tell it the name of a band or song you like and it will find you other songs that might interest you.
It’s iTunes based and music is streaming but in a few short hours of testing I found that the quality of sound is quite satisfying (I find no problem with it and I use amplified 100W stereo) and the song hits of the engine are also very accurate (I only disliked about 1 out of 10 songs presented.
If you don’t want to build a psuedo radio station for yourself (or you don’t have the bandwidth for it) then this is at least a decent way to aquaint yourself with new bands that might have the sound you are looking for.
Just remember. If you want to keep listening to it, then “YOU-ARE-LIVING-IN-THE-US!”. That is all.
Posted in Memes and Stuff, No Category by Eran with 2 comments.
I’m not familiar with the Pandora thing (although I really doubt they have anything to do with human DNA), but Music Genome is an Israeli company that maps music properties using professional musicians. Their engine matches songs for you in a heuristic manner so it can find new songs that you like given a short list (5 songs usually) of things that you already knows (likes and dislikes).
Its a commercial system and they sell it to businesses. Around here you can find it on Orange’s Music web site, and in Tzlil record shops (look for the orange data kiosk, usually located in the middle of the store).
Well, now there’s one on the internet.