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pandora

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years, 6 months ago

 

 

 

[pandora]

xxhttp://www.pandora.com

 

summary of the application

pandora is the access interface to music genome project which is a fascinating project to identify the common threads that run through music regardless of genre.  check out the link for more on the music gnone project. pandora is, on one level, a simple flash music player interface. but it's oh so much more. first you get to create each station from the beginning. this is rather easy to do. you simply give pandora the name of an artist or a song. pandora looks up the characteristics of that artist or song and plays a song that matches your request in character. from there, the genome project takes over. it offers you suggested songs from it's database of over 400,000 songs that match your first selection in form and style. you can further manipulate the type of music that pandora presents in a station by adding additional desired artists or songs to the station's list. as songs are played, you can indicated whether you feel the song fit with the character of the station or not. pandora then adjust's the station's settings to match the new combined settings of your list. you can also add a song to your favorites list. the favorites list that you can create exists primarily as a shopping list of songs you can buy from itunes or amazon. by clicking on the current track's name, you can access information regarding the track, including a link to discographic information (usually allmusic.com).

 

personal effectiveness xxx

i can't say enough positive about pandora. the only reason i don't give give it 5 e's is that there is a bit of room for improvement. i understand the licensing issues, but i still would like to have more control. (don't we all!) i haven't listened to itunes since discovering pandora.

 

i was impressed by the consistency of the selections that pandora made as it added to new songs and artists to my initial requests to create stations. while some of the selections were predictable (en vogue and aaliyah appearing in my janet jackson station) others were real surprises and often all new artists to me (new order and gentlemen of leisure in my bananarama station).

 

a minor drawback is the inability to play a specific song. if you provide a suggested song to begin a station, pandora plays a similar song because their license which the genome project has with the music industry doesn't allow for the playback of a designated song. your song will likely be played at some point in the station's stream, but it's random. for the same reason, you can't repeat or play a song that has already been played. also, if you live outside of the united states, their service is "unavailable" due to varying licensing arrangements.  they do promise to offer international service as soon as possible.

 

learning effectiveness xxx

other than maybe music appreciation classes, i'm not sure that there is much education application for pandora. however, i do see the underlying technology of the music genome project as being something that really could have impact throughout learning technology.

 

coolness xxx

pandora is one of the coolest applications i've run across so far. the use of ai to sort through an immense music library to present music that fits my interests is the absolute promise of web 2.0. this is what we're talking about!

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do you know a competitor to this application?

if you know of a competitor to pandora and it's not in the list below, feel free to add it to the list by filling out the form to the right. that will put it on my radar screen for possible review.

thanks!

 

 

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