Thursday, February 09, 2006

Too freakin' cool.

You tell it what music to play. It does. And MORE. FREE.

Check it out: Pandora

(thanks to HeatherAnn)

posted by Miroslav at 8:46 PM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Awesome site! Thanks for sharing (;

Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:46:00 PM  
Blogger David Porta said...

The first artist I typed in was "Paul Weston," the 1940s Father of Easy Listening or Mood Music.

Pandora.com never heard of him.

I typed in "Jackie Gleason," Weston's usurper.

Nothing.

I typed in "Sons of the Pioneers."
Their heydey was their late ‘40s "Full" sound at RCA (then Decca in the ‘50s), big band arrangements with strings.

Pandora.com gave me their small sound (1930s), with guitars.

I typed in "Roy Rogers," founder of Sons of the Pioneers, and committed Christian.

Pandora.com gave me a playlist with Hank Williams Jr., singing "The F— Word"

I guess I'm just not "getting" this website, how to use it.

Shine a light?

Friday, February 10, 2006 2:18:00 PM  
Blogger Miroslav said...

--FC,
Pretty cool to see what technology can do!

David Porta,
Apparently Pandora is not compatible with lame music, what can I say?
;)
Just kidding. It seems to me that they are just in the ground stages of the thing. With the enormous amount of music that exists, you can't expect them to have gone through every artist and song yet. They have an interesting section about how they get the whole thing to work ... click here. Sounds pretty amazing. If it really takes them as long as they say it does to process a song, it makes sense that they haven't gotten to the 1940's music. Same goes for Roy Rogers.

You do get the site, you are just using music that is a bit out of reach of the infantile site. Plug in something that has an audience that is more likely to use the web to play music... like, um... "The B52's"

Friday, February 10, 2006 4:20:00 PM  

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