Comments on: LinkLog http://chrislott.org/story/Linklog-2007-09-16-1300/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: christen http://chrislott.org/story/Linklog-2007-09-16-1300/comment-page-1/#comment-102178 christen Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:20:23 +0000 #comment-102178 Time for an experiment. Time for an experiment.

]]> By: chris http://chrislott.org/story/Linklog-2007-09-16-1300/comment-page-1/#comment-101926 chris Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:06:16 +0000 #comment-101926 It's funny you say that because I find it to be exactly the opposite-- Pandora is very predictable compared to Last.FM. As I would expect given that people's taste is much more idiosyncratic than the encyclopedia of attributes that Pandora uses. I tested again-- let Pandora run most of the day yesterday and in about four hours it played ONE song I hadn't heard before... and most of them I actually have in my library. With Last.FM I browse my neighbors and recommendations and 2-3 out of the first 5 songs will be something new. Even the Last.FM radio is more varied when I listen to it to Pandora. That's why I don't listen to Pandora except for background music purposes, but I noted this because I know a lot of people listen to it all the time. It’s funny you say that because I find it to be exactly the opposite– Pandora is very predictable compared to Last.FM. As I would expect given that people’s taste is much more idiosyncratic than the encyclopedia of attributes that Pandora uses. I tested again– let Pandora run most of the day yesterday and in about four hours it played ONE song I hadn’t heard before… and most of them I actually have in my library.

With Last.FM I browse my neighbors and recommendations and 2-3 out of the first 5 songs will be something new. Even the Last.FM radio is more varied when I listen to it to Pandora. That’s why I don’t listen to Pandora except for background music purposes, but I noted this because I know a lot of people listen to it all the time.

]]> By: christen http://chrislott.org/story/Linklog-2007-09-16-1300/comment-page-1/#comment-101924 christen Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:51:24 +0000 #comment-101924 Yea, you found a scrobbler for Pandora to Last.fm. Pandora stations are so much more serendipitous than Last.fm - digging up songs and artists I have never heard of before consistently. To me, this is valuable. Scrobbling those songs to my Last.fm profile, aside from making me seem like a more eclectic listener, allow for a longer lasting artifact of what Pandora is playing. What WAS the name of that song I listened to before lunch? Yea, you found a scrobbler for Pandora to Last.fm. Pandora stations are so much more serendipitous than Last.fm – digging up songs and artists I have never heard of before consistently. To me, this is valuable. Scrobbling those songs to my Last.fm profile, aside from making me seem like a more eclectic listener, allow for a longer lasting artifact of what Pandora is playing. What WAS the name of that song I listened to before lunch?

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