Pandora – the ultimate radio on the internet
I hardly can survive without music nowadays. I work better if I listen to music and I have more creative thoughts visiting my head if music is on. Just think about it, what kind of head a creative thought is more likely to visit? Obviously the one with less amount of dust and boredom, so music is important.
Today music is highly available to everyone. People have radios, stereo systems, boom boxes, portable MP3 players and other kinds of electronic devices that can play music. However not all the time one can listen to a particular style of music. It is hard to carry all those CDs everywhere or transfer electronic music libraries from one place to another.
A group of musicians and music loving technicians resolved this problem in the year of 2000. They assembled hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” as they called it into what became known as a Music Genome Project. It was the biggest attempt to analyze music ever taken.
Pandora is an internet radio that hosts the Music Genome Project and it is unique in many ways. The most important thing is that Pandora is a music station with no annoying DJs and advertisement. Moreover every single user chooses the content of the radio. After registering on the web site users choose the content by telling Pandora what artists or even songs they want to listen and the automated system creates play lists.
An important thing to note is that Pandora claims to be the internet radio that increases users musical experiences. And it is true. Even though as mentioned above users choose artists and songs they want to listen, Pandora will look up the “genes” of the artists and songs in the Music Genome Project and will include artists with similar musical attributes into the play list.
I found many new artists that I want to listen to on a daily basis, since Pandora also gives a detailed information on every single song.
Enjoy!
