Thursday, February 21, 2008
February 17, 2008 Analysis
On Sunday, February 17, I woke up inspired and motivated to work. I'm working on research for another class and woke up anxious to do work so I wanted to listen to music that would match, if not elevate, that mood! So after doing a few things around the house, I opened up Pandora around 1:12pm and started a new search for Kirk Franklin. Over the next 2.5 hours I listened to 33 songs. Of the first 4 songs recommended, only 1 was to my liking. After that though, Pandora, hit it's stride. 14 of the next 15 songs were awesome! In fact 11 of those 15 songs were brand new to my ears and the one that I didn't want to listen to, was one that I had heard before. The next 14 songs were pretty much hit or miss....7 I enjoyed and 7, not so much! I'm not sure how Pandora hit it's stride or what features caused it to degrade somewhat but for a period of time, Pandora and I were in it to win it! lol I wish there was a way to identify what about that period of time worked so well or what attributes aligned with my mood/taste and tags from the recommendations but something obviously went awry!! Stay tuned, we'll keep the analysis going and maybe I can find the answer to my own question of the remainder of the semester!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Hi Remi!
Lucia here, from Pandora.
How cool: a site devoted to your analysis of how Pandora's working for you. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
Here's a few tips that may bring you greater success with your stations:
- Entering a song to create a station is often better than entering an artist. This is because sometimes artists have broad repertoires. This can lead to some eclectic results.
- Consider only giving a thumbs up to a song when you like (almost) every aspect of a song, because each thumbs up will add more songs to your station, perhaps in a range that is wider than you had hoped.
- To ban an artist from a station, just give two songs by that artist thumbs downs. Keep in mind, this is station-specific; it will only affect the station you're currently listening to.
- Look here for more info on tuning Pandora stations.
- Also, strangely, sometimes stations based on an artist you like don't live up to your expectations, partly because what you like about that artist is somewhat ineffable. Conversely, I've made stations from groups I wasn't all that into, and the stations were fabulous. It's not an exact science. ;)
Thanks so much for listening,
Lucia, from Pandora
lucia at pandora dot com
Post a Comment