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Pandora’s music recommendations are good

I’ve been poking around at Pandora lately and it’s pretty impressive. Briefly, Pandora is a music recommendation service. You start by simply typing the name of an artist or song you like. Pandora does some work for a few seconds, then starts playing music very similar to your choice. Buying a particular song (iTunes Music Store) or an entire album (Amazon) is 2 clicks away.

It’s the result of 5 years of music classification done as part of the Music Genome Project (the man hours behind this is mind-boggling). Some of you who have been deep in the internet for a long time now may remember similar concepts back in the day - Ringo, HOMR, Firefly. Of course the widespread broadband internet access wasn’t available then, so streaming music was unheard of.

Did I mention it’s free? $36/year only if you want to turn off ads.

Related, but untried : Last.fm

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This entry was written by JB, posted on December 30, 2005 at 2:27 pm, filed under Web Services. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Comments are closed, but you can leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. JM
    Posted December 30, 2005 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

    Nice. I like the Iron Maiden suggested channel.

  2. JM
    Posted January 4, 2006 at 12:00 pm | Permalink

    If you are into podcasts, Inside The Net #6 features an interview with Tim Westergren of Pandora.

    http://thisweekintech.com/itn6