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From Library Garden, Rock­ing Out on Pandora:

What I like best about Pan­dora (besides the fact that it always seems to play music that I like based upon one sug­ges­tion) is their objec­tive to “capture the essence of music at the fun­da­men­tal level”. They really seem to be doing it. How? By assign­ing a vari­ety of attrib­utes to songs that get at the core of what the music is really about and what people might like about that par­tic­u­lar song.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool that was freely avail­able on the web and simple to use that cap­tured “the essence” of books?

FYI, Pan­dora lets you give it the name of a piece of music you like, and it’ll play other songs that you’ll prob­a­bly like as well. I haven’t tried it out yet (the cable on my head­phones is too short, and so I have to hunch over to listen to any­thing), but it sounds really cool. It’s based on the Music Genome Project.

So, I’m won­der­ing how much Library­Thing is already doing this. The MGP appar­ently has over 400 attrib­utes listed, and I doubt Library­Thing is that exten­sive (at least not yet). It’s a really inter­est­ing con­cept, though, and I think it’s some­thing that ought to be done.

[tags]Pandora, Music Genome Project, LibraryThing[/tags]