While browsing the new iPhone app store I discovered probably the coolest site I’ve ever seen. It’s called Pandora.
Pandora is basically an internet radio station, but it is customized to your specific personalized tastes. It is run off of the database created from the Music Genome Project.
All you have to do is just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go to work.
It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings – new and old, well known and completely obscure – to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
I did a test and created two stations. One in English and one in Spanish. The english language band that I put in was Hootie and the Blowfish. In the 30 minutes that I listened to that station, I heard a couple of songs by Hootie, Counting Crows, Jack Johnson, Gin Blossoms, & Del Amitri.
For the spanish language group, I put in RBD. I heard some great music from RBD, Juanes, Shakira, Mana, & Laura Pausini. In both examples, Pandora matched my personal preferences perfectly with similar music, some of which I hadn’t even heard before.
What’s even cooler is that once you set up an account on your computer, you can stream the stations on your iPhone. It’s like having an iPod with millions of songs preloaded that will shuffle exactly to your music tastes and preferences.
Oh yeah, here’s the best part …. Pandora is FREE!!!!
Now stop reading this and go set up your Pandora account now.
