PANDORA'S ROX!!!!!

the equivalent of a musician's wet dream..... words can't describe how much this kicks!!!!

a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever called The Music Genome Project.

they ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. "it's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like."

they then took all this info and created Pandora which is the best streaming music player i've encountered. no downloads required. it will eventually have commercials but as for now they don't have any advertisers. once they do start with commercials you can register for $12 or $36 to not have to listen to them.

Pandora is smarter than Yahoo's Launchcast as it doesn't just go by genre and you don't have to sit there and rate each song (apologies to moose who just reached the 5000+ rating mark to become a "Launchcast Addict"). just go there and type in a band you like or a song title you like. it then plays a song by that band and gives you some detailed musical info about the song. then it goes on to play other songs that match that one. not just the same genre, but songs in the same genome that sound roughly similar as far as style, key signature, vocals, instrumentation and all parts listed above!! you can also add other bands to it, so that it plays whatever music you want on one station, or make several stations with their own sounds......

....catching breath.... damn i'm ecstatic about this.....

Pandora allows you to hear music from bands you've never heard of, but that you should like, because musically they sound much like what you know you like..... it doesn't get any better than this!!!