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Over the past year or two, I have noticed that – at least as far as I can tell – there is absolutely no reason to have a stand-alone music player. As, Alton Brown says about kitchen aids, you shouldn’t buy a one use item.
For those who don’t know, the Music Genome Project is the database behind Pandora‘s streaming service. Unlike many services that follow the recommendation format of “you like song ‘a’, and Bob likes song ‘a’ and song ‘b’, so you are likely to enjoy song ‘b’ as well”, Pandora’s algorithm is “you like song ‘a’, and song ‘b’ sounds like song ‘a’, so you will probably like song ‘b’ as well”. This method, at least to me, seems to be much more accurate.
In the last several years, the lines between phone, music player, PDA, hand-held gaming system, and GPS have blurred as phones now are capable of being an all-in-one portable electronic device. Because of this, it seemed appropriate to review the new EVO 4G with regards to its music capabilities
For those who wish to scrobble (add to Last.fm statistics) music listened to in Pandora, there is web application to do just that. From what I understand, this site has been around for a couple of years, but it is new to me.
Recently, a friend of mine brought up the topic of Pandora. I had been meaning to try it for awhile, but never got around to it and figured that this would be a good time to play around with it. It was a wholly uniq ue experience.