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Pandora Modes lets users customize their listening experience by exploring different versions of their channels, such as an artist s latest tracks or their lesser-known songs.
Pandora s Modes are driven by the Music Genome Project, an algorithm that utilizes user rating data to tailor listeners music stations.
Pandora Modes are available on the Pandora website, mobile app, and the Sonos app, but their availability varies by station.
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Before Pandora’s personalized internet radio service launched in 2005, there was Savage Beast Technologies. From 2000 to 2004, the company focused on building out its music-recommendation technology, the Music Genome Project. Pioneered by founder Tim Westergren, the Music Genome Project had humans, in the form of skilled musicians, listening to songs to uncover and annotate their musical attributes.
Remarkably, music analysts are still listening to songs today. Many aspects of how streaming music platforms provide song recommendations has shifted to computers and machine learning, but not all. There are still analysts doing the same work they have for the last 20 years. We talked to several analysts, past and present, to get a sense of how they work today, 20 years after the Music Genome Project’s inception.
Pandora LIVE to Feature Global Pop Superstar Dua Lipa
Virtual Event to Close Out 2020
Hosted by SiriusXM s Mikey Piff
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OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Pandora announced today that Dua Lipa will perform for the final Pandora LIVE virtual event of the year on December 22
nd at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT. Pandora LIVE is the continuation of the streaming service s popular virtual series that features top artists from all genres, including country, rock, R&B and more. RSVP for the free event HERE.
Mikey Piff of SiriusXM s Hits 1 (ch. 2) will host the evening featuring an in-depth interview with Dua and game of The Hot Seat where Dua will be quizzed about her career.