Pandora: Music Personalization + Great Metadata

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Source: BetaNews
Pandora Sees the DNA in Digital Music
If you’ve never checked out Pandora.com, it’s more than worth a look. An illustration of what good metadata can do. From the article: “Enter the Music Genome Project, a six-year initiative undertaken by Pandora Media. A team of thirty musical analysts makes up the core of this effort, and they have listened to hundreds of thousands of songs from over 15,000 artists, individually analyzing each on some 400 distinct musical attributes.”

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