Existing musician or band. He would try to create Something Like that. When he decided he didnt want to be a film composer anymore he instead thought wouldnt it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew he had an artist or band you liked but he didnt know a lot of other artists in the world or new artist, if you could walk up to a kiosk in that store and punched in the name of a band you liked and put on the headphones and they kiosk could tell you were play for you samples of song some other bands you might also like because you imitated you like to particular band or artist. That was how the music genome project was born. They catalog all these songs, thousands and thousands of songs. There are now over a million and a half in the genome. All those songs have different musical attributes. They have been catalogued by musicologists, many musicians with music degrees. They will catalog a song based on anywhere from 150 to 450 different after beats.
Host and joining us this week on the communicators is steve bene, general counsel for pandora media. Mr. Bene, how did pandora get started . Guest well, first, thanks for having me. This is a tremendous honor, to be included on the show. How did pandora get started . Back in 2000 our founder, tim westergren, had the idea because he had been a composer for film. And when he went and talked to directors that he was supposed to compose film scores for, they would always tell him they wanted something that sounded like this meets that, or, you know, some kind of sound that they had in mind that they would reference off an existing musician or a band, and he would go back and try to create Something Like that. And when he decided that he didnt want to be a music, film composer anymore, he instead thought, wow, wont it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew you had an artist or a band that you liked, but you didnt know a lot of new artists that were br
Counsel for pandora media. How did pandora get started . Guest first, thanks for having me. This is a tremendous honor to be on the show. How did pandora get started . Back in 2000, our founder Tim Westergren had the edge here because he had been a composer for film and when he went and talked to directors that he was supposed to conform some sort, it sounded like this is some kind of sound they had in mind off an existing musician or band. He would try to create Something Like that. When he decided he didnt want to be a film composer anymore, he instead thought it would be interesting if you are able to walk into a record store when you had a band or artist you like that you didnt a lot of artists that were breaking or anything like that. If you were working to a kiosk in that store and punched in the name of the band you like and put on the headphones and the kiosk could tell you samples of songs because youve indicated he thought a particular band or artist was a favorite. That was
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