EnochLight Wrote: > You know, after playing with it for a bit I've come to the conclusion > that Pandora is a great idea, but... half the artists I type in - it > has never heard of. So, for the most part Pandora works well with pop > and more better known artists but the indie artists, abstract, > experimental, and a plethora of genres not heard of get left out of the > mix. > > I can't parse too much blame, however; it's not like they can tap into > *EVERY* kind of music out there... > > Or then again... > > *shrugs* > > ...so much for the "Music Genome Project".. ;-)
Keep in mind that to build the Pandora Database they had to build up lots of information about what people have been listening to over the past 6 years. Certainly private label or indie records are going to have a much harder time being represented when much of the music isn't even available via normal distribution channels. The good news is that if the project picks up more steam I could really see it branching out into more genres of music. As it is I've had it selecting all sorts of things for me that I've never even heard of, and most of it wouldn't be classified as "pop". -- jmpage2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jmpage2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20894 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
