Pandora is a free online personalised internet radio web site, which allows you to create “stations” based on a particular set of Songs/Bands that you want. It then adapts to the selection, and plays songs which possess the same characteristics - For example tone, beat, vocals. This is possible because these guys are busy classifying each song based on such technical characterstics, as part of the Music Genome Project. You can also mark songs that you especially like as they play - so that the intelligent application can play more of the kind, and mark songs which you do not want it to play again. You can also share stations, so that others can also listen to your kind of music.
Sounds a bit similar to Yahoo shoutcast, the difference being that the classification of songs based on the granular characteristics provides an entirely different way to find new music.
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