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Pandora
If you haven't checked out Pandora yet and you are a music fan, you really need to. This free service uses the music genome project to identify hundreds of music attributes to help predict new music that you might like based on things that you like already.
From the website about the music genome project, music attributes tracked include "...everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like..."
What's cool about this is, first of all - it's free! It basically acts as a radio station that continuously streams music based on some bands that you enter as an input. Second of all - you'll probably enjoy listening since it's based on stuff you already like. Third of all - you'll probably get turned on to some bands that might enjoy. You can also mix and match "channels" and also train the system based on what it plays by giving it feedback.
To give you an idea of how it works, I put in the Smashing Pumpkins, and got the bands Action Action and James for the first two tracks recommend based on similarity in basic rock structures, electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, mixed minor and major key tonality among other things. Next I entered Ben Folds Five and got Disappointed By Candy and Beazley Phillips Band because they shared basic use of vocal harmony, acoustic rock instrumentation, acoustic rhythm piano, major key tonality among other things.
I think the technology is cool and it makes for a great radio station and a potential real breakthrough in music searching.
From the website about the music genome project, music attributes tracked include "...everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like..."
What's cool about this is, first of all - it's free! It basically acts as a radio station that continuously streams music based on some bands that you enter as an input. Second of all - you'll probably enjoy listening since it's based on stuff you already like. Third of all - you'll probably get turned on to some bands that might enjoy. You can also mix and match "channels" and also train the system based on what it plays by giving it feedback.
To give you an idea of how it works, I put in the Smashing Pumpkins, and got the bands Action Action and James for the first two tracks recommend based on similarity in basic rock structures, electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, mixed minor and major key tonality among other things. Next I entered Ben Folds Five and got Disappointed By Candy and Beazley Phillips Band because they shared basic use of vocal harmony, acoustic rock instrumentation, acoustic rhythm piano, major key tonality among other things.
I think the technology is cool and it makes for a great radio station and a potential real breakthrough in music searching.
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