> I’m not complaining, but their selection of ‘Similar Artists’ is a bit > too literal for me. I can only speak to my experience with jazz so > far, but if you select a piano player you’re going to get a big dose of > keyboard players from Bill Evans to Herbie Hancock which is a bit of a > stretch IMHO. Same with a female vocalist, you’re going to get almost > exclusively female vocalists. Saxaphone? Two hours of Sax players, > and so on.
Hehe... I actually reported something similar back to them. I always love to test with "Tony Levin". That's a.) a bass player who has played on hundreds of albums, from his own work over to Alice Cooper to King Crimson to Peter Gabriel to Pink Floyd to Sarah McLachlan to Rachel Z. And b.) there's a jazz drummer too. "Artist Radio" would mix the two of them happily. He's admittedly tough to do a good sounding radio stream. He failed most of the services I've tested :-). > I guess I wish they had a “Similar Music” feature? AFAICT most of these services rely on static data, similar to what is available on allmusic.com: "A has played with B", "A has influenced B" etc. But there's little information about what the music actually sounds like. I think that's what makes Pandora so popular. -- Michael _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
