A personalised music station

I was sitting in a tutorial this morning (object oriented programming) and Alex is sitting next to me and gets a link from a friend he is chatting to. The link was to Pandora. The following are the first two questions and answers from the Frequently Asked Questions section, and should give you the general gist of what the site is all about:

Q. What is Pandora?


Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. It's powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe.

Q: How do you decide what to play?


We take your input (artists, songs) and feedback ("I like this", "I don't like this") and use the Music Genome Project to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you've told us. That's it; only the music counts. We don't care how popular the artist is, who's backing them, and we don't care which genre bin they usually belong in. Only the music matters.

This is actually quite an interesting concept. I have a few select artists that I enjoy listening to (since I don’t really have a broad music style), and have always wanted a way to find more artist that I would enjoy listening to.