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It would be great if Netflix bought pandora, I can see Netflix doing really great things with the underlying tech and expanding on the general idea and service
by tenpoundhammer 11y ago
It would be great if Netflix bought pandora, I can see Netflix doing really great things with the underlying tech and expanding on the general idea and service of pandora. Also the pandora recommendation engine could be leveraged to provide improved Netflix recommendations.
- ma2rten 11y agoPandora's algorithm is specific to music and it requires musicians to hand label each song.
- tenpoundhammer 11y agoSure it's specific to music but the thought technology and ideology around it could be exported to other things. The hand labeling sucks though.
- edgyswingset 11y agoThat's because algorithms can't pick up the nuances of what distinguishes, say, Noise Rock and Noise Rock/Shoegaze. You need humans who understand these things.
- amk_ 11y agoBack in the day, Pandora showed you the attributes that they had tagged each song with (stuff like "down-tempo funky grooves", "offbeat emphasis", "prominent female vocalist"). I always wished there was some way to create a station based on an intersection of attributes, rather than a union, when you add multiple seeds to a station.
- pogue 11y agoYou can do this. In the song you like, click on a tag to create the station. Then under the station preferences you can add variety, such as an artist, genre or another tag.
- wlesieutre 11y agoNot quite what he's looking for. You can add more variety to make a station of music that includes x OR y OR z, but you can't make a station that plays songs with x AND y AND z. I've run into this as well. You try to make a station that plays piano rock, and Pandora goes "Hey, here's a song that fits! It has: 1) mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation, 2) major key tonality, and 3) mellow rock instrumentation." It won't care that every song you've added to the station was tagged with acoustic rhythm piano, all tags are equal to the matching algorithm.
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- rms 11y agoI had an ongoing email dialogue with the Pandora CTO about this feature. Soon after Pandora's launch he said the future was coming soon but several years later he said that the way they had set up their database made it impractical for them to actually implement this feature.
- jegutman 11y agoMaybe could be used they hand labeled each movie? Seems easier to do as a whole.
- rch 11y agoI read the parent comment as suggesting that Pandora's accumulated data on music preferences could help improve movie recommendations. That's probably not relevant to notion of a business deal though.
- airza 11y agoI don't think they continued doing this. It seems like they bootstrapped this way, but last time I used it (a few years ago) it was recommending the same artist 's work in two vastly different styles.
- gzavitz 11y agoThe genome is still in use, and many professional musicians are happily employed as curators for it.