June 29, 2010

  • Pandora Doesn't Work

    What are these traits that they use, like major/minor key, guitar/vocal properties, and influences. They generate approximations at best. And if I like songs with a certain type of melody that is memorable and aesthetically pleasing, there is apparently no way to sort for that. And if I don't really care what the lyrics say, or if I don't really care what key it's in, I can't even turn those factors off. And the predominant traits that it uses to sort, just happen to be things I don't really care about. So on average, it produces songs that I'm indifferent to, and on occasion it finds things I really like, and on occasion it finds stuff I really loathe. It's no better than random.