Pandora

Pandora is a streaming web radio station which is powered by the Music Genome Project.

This is not your ordinary music station though. First, you type in an artist or song of which you would like to hear similar music. Pandora then comes up with similar songs based on melody, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics and more.

It dives deep into the core of the song, unlike other services which just base your likes and dislikes on how other people rated a song.

It is a great service if you are looking to find similar music to what you enjoy and you’re sick of what’s on the radio. It’s not always perfect, but you can also guide it to never play a song again or play similar songs to what it suggests.

From one of Pandora’s emails:
“We’ve found that telling Pandora ‘I like it’ to no more than 3-5 songs, then listening for a while is a great start. When Pandora plays a song you don’t like, give it a ‘thumbs down’. We’ll never play that song again, and we’ll steer the station toward the sound you told us you like.”

Enjoy Pandora.