The Cynic Says……

I’d heard about this a couple of times before but it wasn’t free so I never really bothered to mess with it much… Now that it’s free, it’s worth talking about. It’s called Pandora and it’s based off the Music Genome Project database. Basically you put in an aritst’s name and it sifts through the MGP database for music with similar qualities and plays them for you. Undoubtedly one of the most insanely cool things I’ve ever seen in my years of using the internet. I’m quite the music geek and always looking for new and interesting things to listen to and this seems to really fit the bill. For those of you that don’t know, the MGP is a project where people (volunteers?) went through and listened to all different kinds of music and “tagged” it with various relevant properties. Basically Pandora just finds your chosen artist or song in the database and looks at its tagged information.. Then it searches the database for music with similar qualities and plays it for you. It’s completely free, though I’d suggest having a high-speed connection to really enjoy it. Also, you can create more than one “station” and even add different kinds of music to a given station if you so choose. Definitely worth checking out.