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Alright here it is...
I havnt posted much lately because ive had nothing to post. After the cream ad i figured i had hit rock bottom. As it were, i gave up, resorted to music to sooth my worries and what did i find but the most beautiful website for tunage in the world... Totaly quality for workplace listening and jazz of the sort. Kind of an internet radio, but so much more comprehensive.
PANDORA
From what i understand it was created by a couple guys from MIT or some smarty pants school like that. Essentialy what was created was a rough map of the music genome
"We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony." (Westergren : 2005)
Listening to thousands of artists, each was catagorized on some sort of matrix i would imagine. What resulted, was artists grouped by their specific sounds. All that was left was to create an engine to support the matrix and BLAM, pandora's box opened up :P
I just tried it with death cab for cutie a band ive known rather well from over the years and already ive been introduced to about 3 new groups, all sounding similar but not the same... I guess, if you want to keep on with the same theme, they are artists that are part of the same family.
Check it out
http://www.pandora.com
Posted by justin at February 23, 2006 11:35 AMHell yeah, a couple of my other friends told me about it not too long ago as well. Its pretty great. A very useful and user friendly app.
Posted by: li_oz at February 23, 2006 12:48 PMps can anyone brief me on how to make a hyperlink talblog style...
Posted by: justin at February 23, 2006 12:59 PMexcellent! i absolutely suck at finding really good new music - which is why i rely on you people. *compliment*. i've been using this all day. great find justin....
oh for the hyperlink - open a new entry - hit the url button above the entry block - type in or paste the actual url in the new window - hit okay. and you're golden. if you want different text to appear that's another step. type the text you want in the blog space, highlight it...then repeat the above steps. was that totally confusing?
Posted by: Missy at February 23, 2006 3:10 PMglad to be of service, ah thankyou, ah thankyou...
Posted by: justin at February 23, 2006 3:29 PMWARNING: i started a "Morcheeba radio" and about 30 minutes later DEBBIE GIBSON came on. WHAAAAAAT - straight up Electric Blue. clearly this site isn't perfect.
Posted by: Missy at February 23, 2006 3:41 PMmissy missy missy, click "guide us" and give it a thumbs down... its just testing you ... there are soo many possiabilites ... i did pinback and the second song was stix....
Posted by: justin at February 23, 2006 4:42 PMYeah, it takes a little while before it can map your brain. then it knows how you feel on the inside.
btw justin, the blog takes regular html... so you can just type in some html you copied from somewheres else. Also, i think if you are using internet explorer, there are buttons for that in the author window.
Posted by: jeremie at February 23, 2006 6:43 PMmozilla for me, but the html thing... ill try that
Posted by: justin at February 23, 2006 7:50 PMvery cool
Posted by: rob at February 24, 2006 4:34 AMooooh. right. guess i need to pay a lil more attention to the site's amenities...silly me, working and all.
Posted by: Missy at February 24, 2006 10:26 AM