{"id":244,"date":"2006-12-22T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-12-22T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T21:36:15","slug":"pandoras-boom-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/pandoras-boom-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora&#8217;s Boom Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging the online radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>. Calling themselves a music genome project, they play music that you haven&#8217;t heard but will like based on a few albums or artists that you enter. It&#8217;s like a radio station for everybody. <\/p>\n<p>You have to create an account after trying it out so they can support it on an ad based model, but that seems fair. What I like most is that for every song it plays for you, you ask it why it picked it for you. Like &#8212; Based on what you told us so far, we&#8217;re playing this track because it features electric rock instrumentation, a subtle use of harmony,  major key tonality, and other similarities identified by the music genome project.  (Division of Labor). I can tell it I don&#8217;t like that particular song, then it learns what I like and don&#8217;t like. Hopefully this (along with John in the morning at KEXP and my sister Heidi, will help expose me to new music!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try it this Christmas with holiday music&#8230;and if Elvis&#8217; &#8220;Blue Christmas&#8221; pops up I&#8217;ll make sure to give a big thumbs down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging the online radio station Pandora. Calling themselves a music genome project, they play music that you haven&#8217;t heard but will like based on a few albums or artists that you enter. It&#8217;s like a radio station for everybody. You have to create an account after trying it out so they can support it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}