Hi guys, I'm the CTO over at Pandora and have been a Slim Devices customer for years and years -- just recently replaced a pair of SliMP3's with new Squeezeboxen.
Here's the scoop: you're hearing Britney or whatever because sometimes our recommendations aren't perfect. That's the whole story. We work hard to get it right, but sometimes we just get it wrong. Every single song you hear is dictacted by mathmatics -- you can't buy your way into the Music Genome or into a playlist. Period. We are subject to song and artist repetition rules set forth in the statutory licenses in the DMCA but that something that's also true of every other Internet radio service. These rules are called the "performance complement" and say that we cannot play in a three hour period: * more than three songs from a particular album, including no more than two consecutively * four songs by a particular artist or box set We've just recently enhanced our playlist algorithm in a way that we hope will thwart some of this. Here's what we've done: we look for patterns in the aggregate feedback on a particular station. So let's say that we're playing Spears on a Radiohead station. Pretty quickly the Radiohead listeners make it clear that the song doesn't work for them as a group. When enough feedback aggregates we stop playing that song in that context. It takes some time for these effects to kick in for a station, but once it does a lot of these strange matches get pulled automatically. Of course your thumbs down on a song will ban it from that station with one click. That's it. Honestly. If you hear stuff on your stations that makes you scratch your head and wonder what's going on, drop me a note at tomconrad-at-gmail-dot-com and I'll be happy to chat about it. Tom Conrad CTO @ Pandora -- tconrad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tconrad's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5989 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24659 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
