sander;416237 Wrote: > > My feeling is any tech that mixes based on consensus and user > submissions (genius, last.fm, pandora) will inevitably lead to a > greatest hits area where you'll always end up with the most popular > song/artist in any given genre with enough time. >
I agree with you, but I wouldn't lump Pandora into that crowd. In fact I believe Pandora is quite similar to MusicIP. As I understand it, Pandora has created a huge database of songs tagged with musical properties, such as "minor key", "extended vamping", "energetic electric guitars". These tags are assigned by human listeners (presumably properly trained.) When Pandora creates a mix it selects songs with similar musical properties. So this is quite similar to MusicIP, except MusicIP analyzes the music with software instead of having people do the tagging. In fact, this raises another possibility: somehow harnessing the Pandora engine+database to choose songs from *your* library. -- wnshall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wnshall's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5886 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61977 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
