NWR: music

originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Brian C:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Scott Kraft:

Initials VW?
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Them too!
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You must mean the Xx. I like them.

I thought I liked VW until I had to listen to more than a tune here and there popping up on Pandora.

New to my music pool, most recent from My Morning Jacket, Mumford and Sons.

BTW, I think that Pandora is the answer to this anyway. Unless you want to listen to something in a complete fashion. And, it is the coolest thing on the internet other than the VLM-TR.
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I don't think you can use Pandora outside of the US, at least for my low-tech self. A friend in London said he was unable to access it. But yeah, Ive discovered a lot of great stuff there.
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Maybe Pandora's algorithm has improved since last I essayed it, but my experiences with it have been decidedly mixed, with it suggesting a lot of music that I found boring. I half suspect that this is inherent to the design if one values innovation and surprise rather than reinforcement of existing preferences.

Mark Lipton
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If they'd respond to my emails with my CV attached, they'd have a better algorithm.

From what I know, the selection is too musicy and needs to be more purely statistical.
 
originally posted by VLM:
If they'd respond to my emails with my CV attached, they'd have a better algorithm.

From what I know, the selection is too musicy and needs to be more purely statistical.
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That's the intention. While a statistical approach would also be interesting (although wouldn't it just be the same thing as the "people who bought this also bought this" function on Amazon?), Pandora has very deliberate reasons for not going that route. Correlations between fandom of one band and another band can be based on popularity, social circles, and all sorts of other contextual things that don't have anything to do with the actual music. The idea is that when you ignore the context and just focus on the music you discover things you wouldn't have encountered through the usual avenues (buzz from friends, etc.).

Anecdote from NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Pandora-t.html?pagewanted=print):
...a Pandora user who wrote in to complain that he started a station based on the music of Sarah McLachlan, and the service served up a Celine Dion song. I wrote back and said, Was the music just wrong? Because we sometimes have data errors, he recounts. He said, Well, no, it was the right sort of thing but it was Celine Dion. I said, Well, was it the set, did it not flow in the set? He said, No, it kind of worked but its Celine Dion. We had a couple more back-and-forths, and finally his last e-mail to me was: Oh, my God, I like Celine Dion.
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originally posted by Steven Spielmann:
Blue Oyster Cult. With Muscadet.
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My very first ever rock concert, along with Sammy Haggar and Molly Hatchet. Memorial Stadium in Seattle. But we weren't drinking muscadet.
 
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Steven Spielmann:
Blue Oyster Cult. With Muscadet.
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My very first ever rock concert, along with Sammy Haggar and Molly Hatchet. Memorial Stadium in Seattle. But we weren't drinking muscadet.
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Ha! Classic 1st rock concert. Mine went Tucky Buzzard-Savoy Brown-Deep Purple. No Muscadet there either.
 
Well, geez. There may have been surreptitiously-sipped Bartles & Jaymes at my very first concert, and since it was (Jesus, I can't believe I'm admitting this) Bon Jovi on the 7800 Farenheit tour, I'm not sure how proud to be of either aspect.
 
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originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
originally posted by VLM:
If they'd respond to my emails with my CV attached, they'd have a better algorithm.

From what I know, the selection is too musicy and needs to be more purely statistical.
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That's the intention. While a statistical approach would also be interesting (although wouldn't it just be the same thing as the "people who bought this also bought this" function on Amazon?), Pandora has very deliberate reasons for not going that route. Correlations between fandom of one band and another band can be based on popularity, social circles, and all sorts of other contextual things that don't have anything to do with the actual music.
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No, it would be more like the GRE or LSAT approach.
 
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