December 14, 2005

Open the box, boys

Joey deserves big props for this one.

It's Pandora, a project of the Music Genome Project. Interesting little thing here. The genome folks have taken music, sorted it by artist and song, assigned each some qualities on a continuum (acoustic vs. electric, deep vs. frivolous), and set things up so that you can get a streaming music station based on suggestions from what you like. For example, you want to hear some Richard Thompson, so you type in his name. They might start out with some Richard Thompson and then move onto another British guitar guy, then a folk-rocker in the same vein, and all you have to do is kick back, enjoy things, and rate a few songs so they can improve the recommendations.

It's something I've just found, but I'm locked into it for now, at least.

Give it a try.

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