arstechnica.com— Help for those looking for new music may be on the way in the form of a search tool funded by the National Science Foundation that is claimed to identify aesthetic similarities between pieces of music.
Aug 15, 2007View in Crawl 4
"The very next set of songs for this station will be directly generated using the song which received the thumbs-up vote."That could encompass a lot of things. They don't really go into the details or the math behind HOW the thumbs upped song is specifically utilized in generating the next few songs on the list. It is hard to know specifically what is going on behind the scenes without, well, specifics. I'm willing to bet it uses collaborative filtering in addition to selected song features, and would in fact be shocked if they didn't. The implementation and practicality of it is obvious to anyone involved in data mining, which I imagine Pandora is involved with, considering it is based on that whole music genome project which employs data mining for song feature extraction, clustering, etc. Then again, maybe you're right and I've just made a wild assumption. If that's the case, they should hire me to help them implement it ;) Either way, Pandora is awesome!(didn't mean to reply to self, but digg's AWESOME comment system keeps telling me my session has expired when replaying to you directly)
I live in the UK, and there don't seem to be any restrictions...well, it's reminded me politely once or twice that it's for america, but I have happily ignored it and continued.
Oh no, big brother is listening to our music and invading our privacy! We are becoming a police-state. Nazi Germany! Hitler! Blah blah blah! Neocons! Random Buzzword! 1984! Thought Police!
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out
haohmaruAug 15, 2007
How did this become a rap bashing article? Oh wait...
5xstunAug 15, 2007
Music is illegal, just as Frank Zappa predicted it would be.
beatnikwriterAug 15, 2007
Huh. I use www.musicplasma.com personally.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2007
"The very next set of songs for this station will be directly generated using the song which received the thumbs-up vote."That could encompass a lot of things. They don't really go into the details or the math behind HOW the thumbs upped song is specifically utilized in generating the next few songs on the list. It is hard to know specifically what is going on behind the scenes without, well, specifics. I'm willing to bet it uses collaborative filtering in addition to selected song features, and would in fact be shocked if they didn't. The implementation and practicality of it is obvious to anyone involved in data mining, which I imagine Pandora is involved with, considering it is based on that whole music genome project which employs data mining for song feature extraction, clustering, etc. Then again, maybe you're right and I've just made a wild assumption. If that's the case, they should hire me to help them implement it ;) Either way, Pandora is awesome!(didn't mean to reply to self, but digg's AWESOME comment system keeps telling me my session has expired when replaying to you directly)
b3mus3dAug 15, 2007
I live in the UK, and there don't seem to be any restrictions...well, it's reminded me politely once or twice that it's for america, but I have happily ignored it and continued.
thesabreAug 15, 2007
Oh no, big brother is listening to our music and invading our privacy! We are becoming a police-state. Nazi Germany! Hitler! Blah blah blah! Neocons! Random Buzzword! 1984! Thought Police!
rob3Aug 15, 2007
last.fm anyone?
luthercroftAug 18, 2007
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out