www.pandora.com

In my last post, I promised you that I will be posting more about other websites that will put you ahead in the world of music.

Pandora fits this description perfectly.                  

This website's mission is "to play only music that you'll love."

How can anyone interested in music not want to visit such a site?

This is how the site works:

First you sign up for a free account. Once this is done and you are signed in, you can begin to search for songs, artists, or genres of music. When you make your selection, the website somehow intelligently begins to play music that are in some way closely related to your choice.

For example, I like the 1959 song called "Sleep Walk" which is an instrumental composed and recorded by an Italian-American rock and roll duo from Brooklyn called "Santo and Johnny." When I type in the song's title in Pandora, the website plays this song and follows it with other instrumentals that very much reminded me of "Sleep Walk." In fact, the songs were so similar that the mood the first song created was sustained way after that first song had ended. And I'm not kidding nor am I exaggerating.

It really is quite an accomplishment when you think about it. I wondered how they were able to do this and so I checked their website.

It turns out that they explain on their website exactly how they are able to do it.

Apparently, since the year 2000, they have been working on a project called the "Music Genome Project." They boast that this project is "the most thorough analysis of popular music ever undertaken."

So when a song is chosen, the site is able to play that song as well as other songs with similar musical traits based on the extensive analysis that they have done with the music.

This trait alone will compel any serious music-lover to visit this premiere music website.

Try it out for yourself by clicking here and tell me what you think - leave a comment.

Hope you enjoy