Back in 2000 a group of music-tech geeks got together to create "The Music Genome Project" - a project that aimed to analyze music by hundreds of attributes (or "genes") combined into thousands of "focus traits" so that a site like pandora.com can identify music you might like depending upon the initial band(s) you input into the site. It then streams songs to you over the internets they think you might like. The claim is matching music by these "genes" will identify music that can resonate with you that goes beyond simple identifications by genre or self-identified "influences" a band might list. Funded by evil corporations and advertising? Yes, I'm sure (including Sprint, my horrible cell phone provider)... but the advertisements are relatively innocuous and I have actually discovered some really great music on the site. Now whether I'll actually buy the music... will remain to be seen.
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Not to feed your procrastination jones even more, but I've found Last.FM predicts my tastes better than Pandora.
I don't know frank... the first song it suggested for me was one that I HATE. Heheheheh.
Does anyone else find this kind of analysis creepy and unnecessary?
You sir, I find you creepy and unnecessary. Don't you get it JJ?!? Sites like Pandora and Last.FM help me make consumer choices without having to think about them stupid.
It all seems so clear to me now.
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