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March 10, 2011

Want to Build Your Own Pandora?

Discovr Want to build your own music discovery platform? Work at Columbia University may soon help. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education:

A new collaboration between Columbia University researchers and The Echo Nest, a company that tracks online music and delivers listening suggestions to users, hopes to take the human element out of Internet radio. One goal is to deliver better recommendations and more songs through improved artificial intelligence.

To get started, download the app Discovr. Here’s what Discovr does:

Discovr lets you see how the music you love is connected, and makes it easy to find great new bands and artists that are similar to what you like.

Music and Program directors take note: For $2.99, your listeners can learn more about your music than you know. That should be a sobering thought.

 

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Continuing developments in music discovery only reinforces the point we’ve been making. Pandora may have been the first to market artist linkage as a means to discover new music, but they are not alone, and in some respects they are already behind the state of the art.

Posted by on March 10, 2011 at 02:59 PM |

Tags: broadcast radio, Discovr, Echo Nest, Harker Research, internet radio, music discovery, Pandora, radio programming

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