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August 26, 2005
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My first impression of Pandora, the new music recommendation service, is that it's pretty cool. And it actually works.
I'm taking my 5 star tracks from iTunes, and using them as songs to base my playlists upon. I started with DMSR by Prince, recorded 2 hours of radio with Replay Music, copied the tracks to my iPod, and I had some great music to listen to all day long.
I'm still looking for that system that finds you songs that you absolutely LOVE the first time you hear them. Musical tastes are complex, and I'm not sure that Pandora would be able to do that based upon how the technology works, but nevertheless, I had a lot of new music to listen to today that I really LIKED.
I always thought that an affinities engine for music would work well, similar to the technology Amazon uses to recommend books. "If you like this song, other people who like it also like ____". Certainly would be less work than what the Pandora folks have undertaken.
It'll be interesting to see how Pandora's business model pans out. Charging a subscription fee for radio is tricky, since radio is essentially free. I have some ideas...
Posted by Bill Dettering at August 26, 2005 03:27 AM | Technorati Tags: pandora music mp3 radio
Comments
Have you figured out a way to get Replay Music to actually split the track after every song? Sometime I get large clumps of a few songs that are 10+ minutes long...
[It's worked well for me, and our other testers. You may need to shorten the silence time setting in Replay Music.]
Posted by: jon at September 21, 2005 11:54 PM