[BNM] Pandora is dead. Long live Pandora!

[Alex]

They don't use the same engine. In fact they work completely differently:

Last.fm logs listens and serves up recommendations based on what other 
people with similar artist taste also like. For example if you like 
Lilly Allen and also Basement Jaxx and I like Basement Jaxx, it will 
guess that I may also like Lilly Allen.

Pandora works by having a large group of music experts sitting for hours 
analysing music based on a set of criteria. If I like Basement Jaxx, it 
will send me other music characterised by samba rhythms and housey beats.

They each have their uses. If you want to discover new (or more obscure) 
music, Last.fm is better but if you're looking for a certain sound, 
Pandora wins hands down.

</geekoff>

Alex =]


Josh Russell wrote:
> i'm wondering how this affects last.fm... they run (i believe) off the
> same engine.. audio scrobbler?
>
> so, legally, what allows last.fm to continue and for pandora to be
> killed? (internationally at least)
>
> FWIW, i think last.fm is a better service, but only because i use the
> itunes plugin. pandora of course is your player as well as letting you
> "tune" it. so i guess if you don't use itunes and the last.fm plugin
> (and don't have your own music?) then pandora is better. but
> considering that last.fm will build a "radio station" from your
> popular listened-to itunes tracks, i think there is little difference.
> last.fm will even watch what you play on your ipod and record that.
>
> so........................... big questions really are....
>
> are you an apple fan boy (girl)?
> do you mind having your preferences stored against a more legitimate
> user profile? (or even your itunes store id? does it?)
>
> personally, i don't mind that, but each to their own etc :)
>
>
> josh
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 9:26 PM, Nick Sayers <mail at nicksayers.com> wrote:
>   
>> For those who missed my little addition to the old 'Pandora woes' thread,
>> here it is again with a spiffy new subject line - HTH:
>>
>>
>> ...I was gonna try getting my head around finding a US proxy server to
>> listen to Pandora through, when I discovered this:
>>
>> http://globalpandora.com/
>>
>> Found via the Facebook 'Save Pandora' group:
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6878879451
>>
>> Ah, great new music again.
>>
>> :-) Nick
>>
>>
>> ...Having said that, it's not working at the moment, but I've heard it's a
>> little patchy. It worked for a few hours with my account this afternoon.
>>
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