Thursday, December 10, 2009

NYTimes.com: The Song Decoders

The New York Times

Pandora music service uses musicologists as human listeners to decode what makes a song fit into a classification - works better than computer decoding of songs because of very human attributes that make us like songs.

October 18, 2009
The Song Decoders
By ROB WALKER
By breaking music down into its component parts, Pandora Internet radio tries to figure out what kind of music you - not your social group, heroes or aspirational self - really like.

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