Pandora’s Box

An article by Don Quixote    1 Comment

Every once in a while you find a site on the internet that’s actually pretty darn cool and useful (useful being the biggest surprise). I was scanning through one of my numerous newsletter emails that find their way into my in box and ZDNet had written a piece on something called the “Music Genome Project”.

It was an attempt by a group of musicians and music-loving technologiest to find a way to analyze and compare like music. 10,000 artists later the end result is Pandora.

What’s Pandora you ask? Pandora is a music discovery service that helps you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. The way that it works is you type in an artist or song and then based on the analysis of that Pandora recommends other music. If you like the music, then give it a thumbs up and it’ll continue to develop a further picture of your tastes. The really cool part is that Pandora streams all the music to your PC or Mac right over the web with awesome compression and flows pretty seamlessly. Even at work where they quash any streaming media it played without a hitch. You can create up to 100 different stations (your sappy love songs, your work music, whatever your mood is).

To top it all off, its free. Gotta love the free.

You can share your favorites and even buy the music you like online (always a way to make money in these projects I’m sure). In any case, check it out, its pretty awesome.