There are a lot of ways to listen to and appreciate music, and this longread highlights an especially unique approach taken by Pandora. Pandora uses extremely-refined classifications in order to automate the process of music recommendations and thus create the optimal internet radio. While most of us have probably used Pandora at some point, we probably haven't thought in-depth about the engines powering that program, and this article gives this interesting background.
"The Song Decoders" by Rob Walker
Published in the New York Times Magazine, October 14, 2009
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