Visit Pandora.com for New Artists that Match your Musical Tastes
When you open Pandora’s box, you never quite know what you will get – sort of…
Sometimes, one simply does not know what one is missing.
Such was the case with the Internet radio service Pandora.com, at least until this week. Upon the recommendation of a family member, we gave the site a look and now, well Pandora is playing as we write this post.
Create A Radio Station Featuring Your Specific Musical Tastes
Suppose your tastes include someone like Warren Zevon, the irreverent, piano pounding rocker that has penned some of the most satirical lyrics known to man (give Excitable Boy a listen if you are new to Zevon). After heading to Pandora.com, we simply created a new station and typed in the rocker’s name. We immediately got one of those Zevon songs that features the typical driving rock style he made famous.
But it is what happens next that makes this site different. After the tune finishes, Pandora moves on to another song from another artist that matches the Zevon style.
As each song begins you will see some of the musical aspects the site uses to make the associations. Over 400 different musical attributes are supposedly considered in the selection of the next song. These attributes are then combined to form more than 2,000 focus traits (rhythm syncopation, key tonality, vocal harmonies and instrumental approaches).
As songs play, you can give them a thumbs up or down, a step that provides the site further insight into your specific tastes within that particular musical category – with no further insight our selection brought us first to an obscure Zevon number to Tom Petty to John Fogerty (actually Creedence Clearwater Revival) to Johnny Cash before coming back to Zevon and the stellar “Werewolves of London.”
As you listen you of course also are provided the opportunity to buy specific songs from the iTunes store, Amazon MP3, or in the case of CDs, at Amazon.com (for CDs). After two free log ins, we needed to register as a user.
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In the midst of signing up we were hit with a couple of initial ads that we immediately bypassed. We started the music playing in the background and went to work on other matters, all the while inspired by our choice of musical genre, the other ads invisible as the song list progressed.
What makes the site so great is you begin to hear music from artists you have never heard from before yet offer music consistent with our tastes. In addition, you are free to create a number of stations, so you can make mood choices.
Adding to the beauty is that Pandora launched a mobile version of their software. Listeners may download and install the application on the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch through the iTunes Application Store.
If you haven’t given the site a try, then like us, you truly don’t know what you have been missing.
