Find your personal DJ

Time to get Down with your Bad Self!

If you are like me and sit at your desk all day long, you often look for distraction and entertainment. I was very excited when a friend pointed me in the direction of Pandora. Pandora is a music compendium that takes your noted favourite artists, genres, styles, songs, even rifts and chords and creates a customized continuous playlist. You can make multiple playlists, and they can even suggest preformed playlists for special occasions, like holiday music. As the songs play, you can rate them, stating if you want more like that, or less, or blocking the song or artist altogether.

What is fascinating is that the creators behind Pandora have developed a computer system that actually reads the notes and beats of the song to match it in their database with like minded music. Its not just saying "you like rap, so here is more rap"; it actually tries to find music which evokes a similar theme, emotion and style to what it knows you already like. And as you rate things, it continues to evolve and hone its knowledge of you. They call this the Music Genome Project. Fascinating stuff!

Unfortunately, due to intellectual property rights law, Canadians are blocked from using the site. But all my american friends, get out and check it out today!