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<blockquote data-quote="knutinh" data-source="post: 43544" data-attributes="member: 14776">I use <a href="http://www.pandora.com" target="_blank">www.pandora.com</a> a lot. It is essentially a parametric search for music cathegory, meaning that you enter your favourite music/bands, and it will stream music of similar character just like a webradio.The amazing part is that they actually had a bunch of educated music people analyze all this music and sett various parameters for each:&quot;The Music Genome Project On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or &quot;genes&quot; into a very large Music Genome. ...Over the past 5 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world. ...&quot; I notice that they now can act as a plugin for the hardware squeezebox mp3 player. Having some sort of plugin in MP would be great. I dont know if it should be done as a simple My radio hookup to their transport stream, or if it should be a nice GUI with controls for selecting &quot;stations&quot;, rating songs, skipping etc so that the concept can be utilized fully.Your thoughts?regardsKnut</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knutinh, post: 43544, member: 14776"] I use [url]www.pandora.com[/url] a lot. It is essentially a parametric search for music cathegory, meaning that you enter your favourite music/bands, and it will stream music of similar character just like a webradio. The amazing part is that they actually had a bunch of educated music people analyze all this music and sett various parameters for each: "The Music Genome Project On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. ... Over the past 5 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world. ..." I notice that they now can act as a plugin for the hardware squeezebox mp3 player. Having some sort of plugin in MP would be great. I dont know if it should be done as a simple My radio hookup to their transport stream, or if it should be a nice GUI with controls for selecting "stations", rating songs, skipping etc so that the concept can be utilized fully. Your thoughts? regards Knut [/QUOTE]

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