Just stumbled over this (by way of an opinion piece on the music industry in the Register that’s worth a read): Pandora uses data from the Music Genome Project to create personalized radio stations based on artists you like (or not, if you’re masochistic enough). Songs you like can be bought immediately in the iTunes Music Store.

It’s not perfect, although I’d be hard-pressed as well to come up with a list of music similar to Combustible Edison, say. Probably it’ll do better with Nirwana .

Anyway, good or not, it is novel (and fun). Not that novelty is the ultimate judgement of quality, but it shows what may be possible only if the music industry decides to enter the 21st century.

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