The folks at the Music Genome Project have spent the last six years analizing songs from over 10,000 artists. If you have ever wanted to expand your musical horizons but wanted some good suggestions about what music you might like take a look at their web-based music suggestion utility, Pandora. You start out listing some music you enjoy and the free service will start making suggestions of other music you may like. By listening to and rating these selections the service will start to build a profile of music you would like and theoretically get even better about suggesting new songs and artists. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. I’m surprised someone like the iTunes store or Amazon hasn’t started licensing this technology as a way to encourage people to buy more music.
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