April 1, 2006
pandora
Neat:
Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.
I’m listening to Jimi Henrix on at the moment. Rock on.
Pandora represents the commodficiation of music predicated on telling the user that they like music based solely on genre and time signature. It bypasses the visceral and throws the blandest selections at you.
Thus I ditched it a couple of months ago.
Hi Hugh,
I’ve used Pandora for a while and think it is a pretty cool service. However, it pales in comparison to Last.fm. As Steve Krause says, it’s like Nature vs. Nurture.
I think Last.fm is a much better product and a far-superior service. It has add-ons and features that Pandora simply cannot match. Last.fm is the power of a service using technology to enable social recommendation versus a smart algorithm.
More here:
http://www.i-boy.com/weblog/2006/03/nature-vs.html
Sorry I haven’t called you back. (You didn’t leave your number, btw, and my caller ID is whacked at the moment.) Toss me an email, if you have the chance. It would be great to hook up.
Regards,
~G~
Blimey Hugh — I ditched Pandora a while back for Last.fm
trying out pandora, so far so good for my needs.
I have a new band at school and we have been sampling songs to record. I wanted to hear some solo acoustic/rock guitar songs and typed in James Blunt. I am very pleased to hear a series of workable pieces.
will check out Last.fm and get a feeling of the difference.