[Non-US listeners] Back to Pandora!

Don’t know if this will last for very long, but for now globalPandora allows listeners from all around the world to tune back into music-recommendation service Pandora again.  back in May 2007, Pandora was forced to shutdown its service for users outside the USA due to licensing-issues/-cost. tech-savvy users may have been able to [...]

Pandora: back in charts!

music recommendation has seemingly been dominated by Last.fm recently (new widgets, video-content, mashups), while competitor & innovator Pandora was less lucky being forced to shut down services outside the US. at yesterdays press-event at the Museum of Modern Art (SF), Pandora  reported back with an impressive array of announcements, including…

  …a much needed revamp of [...]

byebye Pandora :(

according to TechCrunch, music-recommendation service Pandora is closing down their doors to non-US visitors (as identified by IP-filtering) on thursday evening. this was somewhat conceivable as Pandora has been operating under a DCMA-agreement valid for US-listeneres only since they started in 2005. until today, querying nationality/zip-code at sign-up was the only way Pandora enforced this [...]

Pandora introduces community-features

leading music-recommendation service Pandora introduced some community-related features earlier this week (check their official blog for the full scope). however, listener-profiles (including listings of tracks which received most thumbs-ups & -downs) and a very basic search for listeners, artists & stations can’t really keep up with advanced community-features offered by last.fm. f.e., Pandora lacks last.fm’s [...]

Musicovery: yet another music-exploration service

if you’re into music-recommendation & -exploration services, you might wanna check out Musicovery. set your preferred mood (energetic, dark, positive, calm), period (80ies, 90ies etc.) and musical genres, and Musicovery will generate a matching – though static – playlist. while this is definitely inferior to Pandora’s dynamically adjusting streams, Musicovery offers a beautiful flash-based visual [...]

interview: Tom Conrad (Pandora)

O’Reilly Digital Media published an elaborate feature on music recommendation service Pandora, including an interview with chief technical officer Tom Conrad. the article explains how the Music Genome Project – Pandora’s underlying recommendation engine – works and how new incoming music is analysed and categorized by 40 professional musicians. on the technical side, Conrad gives [...]

news from pandora

mike arrington reports:
Music discovery site Pandora will be announcing that it has 1.8 million users sometime tonight or tomorrow. These customers have given Pandora a whopping 70 million pieces of song feedback over the last few months. Pandora will also be announcing that they will start to use this community feedback in evolving users’ [...]