Pandora and the Music Genome Project

摘要

Most music sites allow some form of new music discovery. With some, the system is based on a form of rating or recommendation from other users. This could show up like 'Other users also bought XXX,' implying that if you liked this song, there is a good chance that you might like the other too. However, there are a few music services living on the Web that take a different approach. One of these is the Music Genome Project. Conceived by Tim Westergren, the Music Genome Project attempts to take a more analytical approach. This project was launched in January of 2000 with an attempt to analyze the structure of a song so that they could identify similar songs that a searcher might like.