The way it works, is you can easily and quickly custom design your own radio station to play all your favorite songs, and songs that you will most likely love. I quickly designed my own radio station to play a rotating mix of Pentangle, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Philip Glass, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Bjork, Sigur Ros, The Cure, Toots & The Maytals, Star Sailor and others. It also analyzes your choices to play a wide range of "similar" musical styles. This is hit or miss, but you can easily tell it you like the selection or ban it from your radio station with a click of the mouse. I've even trained it to play a narrow and particular type of "bad" genre '80s radio music. I've also been introduced to some new artists I like such as Wizz Jones.
In the words of Pandora.com: "It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team of fifty musician-analysts has been listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each recording its magical sound - melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics ... and more - close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios, stadiums and garages around the country.
With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
You can create as many "stations" as you want. And you can even refine them. If it's not quite right you can tell it so and it will get better for you.
The Music Genome Project was founded by musicians and music-lovers. We believe in the value of music and have a profound respect for those who create it. We like all kinds of music, from the most obtuse bebop, to the most tripped-out drum n bass, to the simplest catchy pop tune. Our mission is to help you connect with the music YOU like."
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Thanks for listening to Pandora, Annie! We're glad you're enjoying having your own customized radio stations. :)
- Lucia, from Pandora
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