A huge database with more than half a million songs of all genres, each analyzed in every detail, as if to reveal the DNA of individual songs. This is the Music Genome Project, born from the fertile mind of a former musician with the ambition to offer a music service based on our personal taste and not on market patterns.
The goal, according to project founder Tim Westergren, is precisely to build a middle class of musicians, giving all the small producers the opportunity to experience their music and to be found in meanderings of the Web millions of songs, just based on features and not for music or image communication strategies managed by the majors.
"I was born as a jazz pianist, my passion," says Tim, & # 8220, then I started playing in a rock band. But beyond the talent was almost impossible to emerge from anonymity to quit because there is only one road: to find a major music willing to bet on you. In that case part of the media circus of promotion, the steps on the radio, concerts and so on. The other artists are cut off, condemned to remain in the shadows without hope. "
a frustration shared by thousands and thousands of young people. But Westergren not strikes, on the grounds that it is unfair to decide which of his music are three people inside a record company, invented in 1999 the Music Genome Project with three other friends and fans of music. Now in its U.S. site pandora.com has five million users and its bill of $ 15 million company with 100 employees.
How does it work? Just connect to pandora.com and enter the name of a musician or song that we like, and immediately after there are proposals similar songs to listen free of charge or, if you do not want publicity. The songs are picked by the Music Genome Project database based on precise algorithms and also the engine is assisted in his choices by the votes that the songs they receive from other users.
to complete the Music Genome Project works for half a team of enthusiasts music and the other half by musicians, who analyze each song for 20-25 minutes depending on more than 400 features (sound, melody, harmony, intensity of instruments, rhythm, words, etc...) There are some curious. The system has included Beethoven next to a song by U2: they had the same structure and even the same 'color'.
For each song is listened to the author's name, album, cover and artist information. The system is perfectly legal in the U.S., while in Europe is expected to land shortly. Based on agreements made with all the labels on pandora.com songs can only be heard while you can buy directly on Amazon or iTunes.
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