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I’ve professed my love for Last.fm before (The statistics! The beautiful statistics!) but this weekend I decided to see how the other half listens and signed up for Pandora. Yes, I do everything the New York Times tells me to do.
I didn’t realize that Pandora actually has employees who listen to songs and create metadata pertaining to various characteristics. That’s… pretty cool, really. I decided I should check it out and see if I could find better new music suggestions based on characteristics of the songs rather than social data from the listeners.
So far I’ve created several radio stations for myself, with some interesting results. Pandora offers to tell you why it picked each song for you, and I’ve noticed a trend of justifications related to such things as “extensive vamping” and “repetitive melodic structure.” The drums, the drums, the drums, the drums…
Completely unrelated to Pandora, I’m really enjoying the song Fireflies by Owl City. (Sadly, I cannot embed.) Reminds me a bit of The Postal Service. Also, Vampire Weekend has a new single, Horchata, which contains the lyric "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava." Awesome.
I didn’t realize that Pandora actually has employees who listen to songs and create metadata pertaining to various characteristics. That’s… pretty cool, really. I decided I should check it out and see if I could find better new music suggestions based on characteristics of the songs rather than social data from the listeners.
So far I’ve created several radio stations for myself, with some interesting results. Pandora offers to tell you why it picked each song for you, and I’ve noticed a trend of justifications related to such things as “extensive vamping” and “repetitive melodic structure.” The drums, the drums, the drums, the drums…
Completely unrelated to Pandora, I’m really enjoying the song Fireflies by Owl City. (Sadly, I cannot embed.) Reminds me a bit of The Postal Service. Also, Vampire Weekend has a new single, Horchata, which contains the lyric "I'd look psychotic in a balaclava." Awesome.
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