I was a Pandora user before I even started working at Slim Devices. This hasn't happened to me for a while, so maybe my additional input about what music I like or don't like has helped, or maybe their library grew enough to provide more music I like.
But what used to happen to me all the time was: Paula Abdul. Now, I have nothing against Paula. She seems like a nice enough person, and I can't say anything about her various albums other than they are not really to my taste. But here I was, trying to listen to Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder and Chemical Brothers and Future Sound of London, and suddenly out of left field comes Paula. I don't like this song. MORE Paula. I don't like this song. EVEN MORE Paula. Or maybe Janet Jackson for a change-up. I REALLY DON'T LIKE THIS SONG. Finally, after curbing three or four wild experiments, Pandora would seem to return to normal. My theory is that it all has to do with Pandora's recommendations. Unlike Last.FM and some others, they don't compare what you like to what other people like, which might enable their system to reason "well everyone ELSE who likes jazz HATES country" but rather they come up with more-or-less objective observations about the music, which rarely seem to include "jazz" or "country". So in your case, maybe Pandora thought 'well, he likes female vocalists, prominent guitars and extensive vamping (whatever the heck that is) so what the heck, I bet he'll like this country music'. Just my theory. Maybe I should see if I can talk one of the Pandora folks into visiting our forums now and then to give us their take. :) -- ChrisOwens -- Christopher Owens QA Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (510) 743-1152 x717 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChrisOwens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22753 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
