Pandora's Box Of Confusion
"On first listen, some things grab you for their off-kilter novelty. Like the story of a company that has hired a bunch of "musicologists," who sit at computers and listen to songs, one at a time, rating them element by element, separating out what sometimes comes to hundreds of data points for a three-minute tune. The company, an Internet radio service called Pandora, is convinced that by pouring this information through a computer into an algorithm, it can guide you, the listener, to music that you like. The premise is that your favorite songs can be stripped to parts and reverse-engineered..." (more)
Sounds more like Pandora's box...
Hmmmph....how about just playin' the damn song, listening and forming an opinion of your very own?
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Comments (3)
Lots of folks like it FBLJ..although sometimes their machines don't do such a good job..
I've gotta admit, I get it conceptually but i've never had any luck whatsoever with these things either as a listener or as an artist. The "if you like that then you might like this" approach is better done by personal interaction.
It kind of reminds me of the BCS ranking system in college football but worse.
The less machines we have making musical decisions the better