My new office mate just turned me on to Pandora. It's a music service (free online) that mixes a form of affinity logic with music selection. You start my choosing a song or artist whom you like. That defines a "station". Then Pandora picks music that it thinks you will like that is similar. You vote "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" and refine your choices over time.
She tells me that it can take weeks to train it to provide a consistently good stream of music. And that one should define separate stations for different genres (so far I have "Dido" and "Reggae" started). But it is possible to mix the music of several of your stations.
Rocking good idea. Looks to be Web browser-enabled so it should work on both Mac and PC (I've only tried it on my work PCs).
Posted by artandscience at July 27, 2007 06:38 PM