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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]