Thursday, January 29, 2009

FineTune... can't find a tune.


FineTune is pretty good, but it's no Pandora. I was playing around with FineTune and I am sort of an indie music fan, so I search one of my fave bands and found to my surprise it was not available. So I began searching some more and they didn't have quite a few bands I really love, like Susanna and the Magical Orchestra.

Before Pandora became ilegal in Canada*, I had an awesome time creating my little profile of music on it! It made wonderful suggestions, introduced me to many new bands and versions of songs I didn't even know existed! I could literally type in ANY band and it would compile a huge list of similar bands using the music genome project, a mathematic system for determining musical similarities.

The case of Pandora really shows off how the internet can bring us all together, but also tear us apart.

*Because of licensing restrictions, Pandora is available only to users whose location is reported to be in the USA by Pandora's geolocation software.

1 comment:

  1. Awww, I miss Pandora. :(

    Well, I miss accessing it easily anyways...

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