6 ms·
One of my dreams is to actually see how all of that works. I'm not in it for the music - I just really am a music nerd and would love to know how all that stuff
by bphogan 11y ago
One of my dreams is to actually see how all of that works. I'm not in it for the music - I just really am a music nerd and would love to know how all that stuff is stored, pulled together, and queried.
- livingparadox 11y agoFor Pandora, they use a vector distance algorithm (with some other nudges to keep it from being repetitive, I'm sure). They break down a song on a scale of 1-5 across hundreds of "genes" and then pick songs based on how similar or "close" they are in the multidimensional space.