Online Music
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JK Enthusiast
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Online Music
Howdy All
After spending a week down in St.Louis earlier last year, I found an on line music station called Pandora.com that I listened to constantly. It uses the Music Genome Project algorithm. (see below).. You simply type in the artists you like and select others you may enjoy and viola it will stream your favorite music all day long with no commercials or interruptions. Due to copyright infringement you can`t listen to it in Canada.
I have tried using proxy servers to listen to it up here but with little success. Even xxx.hidemyass.com had a hard time hiding my Canadian IP address and I did try others as well with the same disappointing results.
Well the good news.... after searching high and low.. I found this station that works up here in the frozen north. xxx.jango.com It uses the same MGP as Pandora but as of yet has not been stopped from letting us Canucks listen to the music we enjoy. You can listen to your selection or sign up for free and save your preferences.
Anyway I thought I would share. I have my Acer mini hooked up to the stereo upstairs and it plays the station all day long with CD quality. And no more farting around with playlists..
Zeb
From Wikipedia.....
"The Music Genome Project, created in January 2000, is an effort founded by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren to "capture the essence of music at the fundamental level" using almost 400 attributes to describe songs and a simple mathematical algorithm to organize them. The company Savage Beast Technologies was formed to run the project.[1]
A given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 150 "genes" (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes, rap songs have 350, and jazz songs have approximately 400. Other genres of music, such as world and classical music, have 300–500 genes. The system depends on a sufficient number of genes to render useful results. Each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments.[2]
Given the vector of one or more songs, a list of other similar songs is constructed using a distance function.
To create a song's genome, it is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song. Ten percent of songs are analyzed by more than one technician to ensure conformity with the standards, i.e., reliability.
The technology is currently used by Pandora to play music for Internet users based on their preferences. Because of licensing restrictions, Pandora is available only to users whose location is reported to be in the USA by Pandora's geolocation software.[3]"
After spending a week down in St.Louis earlier last year, I found an on line music station called Pandora.com that I listened to constantly. It uses the Music Genome Project algorithm. (see below).. You simply type in the artists you like and select others you may enjoy and viola it will stream your favorite music all day long with no commercials or interruptions. Due to copyright infringement you can`t listen to it in Canada.
I have tried using proxy servers to listen to it up here but with little success. Even xxx.hidemyass.com had a hard time hiding my Canadian IP address and I did try others as well with the same disappointing results.
Well the good news.... after searching high and low.. I found this station that works up here in the frozen north. xxx.jango.com It uses the same MGP as Pandora but as of yet has not been stopped from letting us Canucks listen to the music we enjoy. You can listen to your selection or sign up for free and save your preferences.
Anyway I thought I would share. I have my Acer mini hooked up to the stereo upstairs and it plays the station all day long with CD quality. And no more farting around with playlists..
Zeb
From Wikipedia.....
"The Music Genome Project, created in January 2000, is an effort founded by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren to "capture the essence of music at the fundamental level" using almost 400 attributes to describe songs and a simple mathematical algorithm to organize them. The company Savage Beast Technologies was formed to run the project.[1]
A given song is represented by a vector (a list of attributes) containing approximately 150 "genes" (analogous to trait-determining genes for organisms in the field of genetics). Each gene corresponds to a characteristic of the music, for example, gender of lead vocalist, level of distortion on the electric guitar, type of background vocals, etc. Rock and pop songs have 150 genes, rap songs have 350, and jazz songs have approximately 400. Other genres of music, such as world and classical music, have 300–500 genes. The system depends on a sufficient number of genes to render useful results. Each gene is assigned a number between 1 and 5, in half-integer increments.[2]
Given the vector of one or more songs, a list of other similar songs is constructed using a distance function.
To create a song's genome, it is analyzed by a musician in a process that takes 20 to 30 minutes per song. Ten percent of songs are analyzed by more than one technician to ensure conformity with the standards, i.e., reliability.
The technology is currently used by Pandora to play music for Internet users based on their preferences. Because of licensing restrictions, Pandora is available only to users whose location is reported to be in the USA by Pandora's geolocation software.[3]"
JK Junkie
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JK Enthusiast
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Todd,
I have tried this as well with no go. Perhaps I am doing something wrong? But they can still see my IP and can't get the steaming to work,
Give me more info and I will try...
Zeb
I have tried this as well with no go. Perhaps I am doing something wrong? But they can still see my IP and can't get the steaming to work,
Give me more info and I will try...
Zeb
JK Junkie
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No idea what's up man. I had the software on my pc and fired it up and tried. No problems. I did try it with firefox and I didn't load. I went to ie and it worked fine. What browser are you using?
