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I haven't tried anything like it, so I can't comment on the difficulty of creating the fingerprinting technology, and frankly, I'm not all that impressed with S
by bmelton 17y ago
I haven't tried anything like it, so I can't comment on the difficulty of creating the fingerprinting technology, and frankly, I'm not all that impressed with Shazam. But as I understand it, Pandora uses the same Music Genome data to make its suggestions, and that is REALLY magic.
- jkincaid 17y agoI've heard a couple times that Pandora doesn't really rely on the Music Genome any more because it has so much other listener data it can use to determine relevant matches. Haven't actually asked Pandora about it, so take that with a grain of salt.
- physcab 17y agoYah I believe that. We don't have access to the Music Genome and we can still build a decent rec engine. When you have millions of users you can assemble pretty good features if you log the usage properly.
- jamesjyu 17y agoPandora actually uses a mix of human and algorithm for the Music Genome. They have a whole team of musicians just cataloguing and categorizing music based on various metrics. That's why they're usually very accurate.