Thursday, January 05, 2006

Free Radio Stations.

You no longer need to download music, you just have to go online and use Pandora either by using a free account (with who-cares ads and the limit of 10 skipped tracks an hour) or pay $3 a month. Pandora allows you to create "radio stations" based on songs or bands you like. You create a radio station by first tpying in the name of a band or song you like. Pandora will then analyze the song's "genome" (they take 20min to analyze each song in their vast library to create its genome which includes an extensive list of attributes) and create an ongoing playlist of songs with similar genome's to the song or band you enetered. You can then add more songs or bands to refine your playlist. You also have the ability to give any song a thumbs up or thumbs down: a thumbs up will encourage Pandora to play more songs with a similar genome and a thumbs down will stop it from ever playing that song again and songs of similar genome. If you like your radio station enough, you can email it to a friend.

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