Pitchfork Looks At Music Recomendation Sites. How Can They Tell Us What We Want To Hear?
Pitchfork’s Chris Dahlen takes a long and thorough look at the promise and pitfalls and differences between the growing number of music recommendation schemes like Last.fm and Pandora:
"Music discovery tools such as Last.fm, Pandora, and the yet-to-be-launched Echo Nest are getting smarter and brasher every month, growing from studying people’s shopping carts to digging into the music itself and analyzing what makes it tick. Such tools could boost sales industry-wide, but can they eventually create maps of our sensibilities and tell us exactly what we want to hear?" (more here)
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"Music discovery tools such as Last.fm, Pandora, and the yet-to-be-launched Echo Nest are getting smarter and brasher every month, growing from studying people’s shopping carts to digging into the music itself and analyzing what makes it tick. Such tools could boost sales industry-wide, but can they eventually create maps of our sensibilities and tell us exactly what we want to hear?" (more here)
