I was surfing through the iPhone Applications on the Apple.com site and came across this really cool FREE music player Pandora Radio. It is based on the Music Genome Project which is an ongoing project that analyzes songs and artists using up to 400 distinct musical characteristics. These attributes are captured, cataloged, and entered into a database. You just type in the name of your favorite artist or songs and the Genome Project does the rest. It searches through its database and plays those songs and artists that share the characteristics of the song you entered. It’s really cool, if it plays a song you don’t particularly like you can click a thumbs-down icon and the player knows not to play that song or songs that match its characteristics.
I’m really enjoying having it on my desktop in my home office. The sound quality is incredible and pumping it through my harmon/kardon speakers ROCKS! An account is FREE and I’m looking forward to traveling next week and being able to take the “stations” that I have created with me on iPhone. Oh, yeah, there is the iPhone app that I mentioned above. Check it out.