Pandora is a website that streams musical tracks based upon their likenesses. Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project. It is an initiative in which musicians and music-loving technologists came together in January 6, 2000 to create a comprehensive analysis of music--to put together the musical DNA, in much the same way that the Human Genome Project attempted to string together the human DNA.
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
I have found this website to be a great personal music discovery portal. Even though the further down the genome you are, the less you will find music that is similar to the track or the artist you have chosen, the engine itself is self-correcting, allowing for changes in recommendations based upon your inputs.
Pandora is itself a service. The users are able to sign up for a free account that will allow for unlimited hours of listening with 100 stations with ad-support, or pay for an advertisement-free version.
Pandora is itself a service. The users are able to sign up for a free account that will allow for unlimited hours of listening with 100 stations with ad-support, or pay for an advertisement-free version.
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