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by jgeorge 4432 days ago
The one thing I wish I could do with Pandora, or the OMGP in general, is to search based on individual criteria, versus searching based on a song/artist/genre and then seeing the criteria I get.

Much of the music I listen to on Pandora, irrespective of genre, has many of the same criteria listed (my girlfriend gives me some heat about all of my music having "minor key tonality"). I'd like to be able to feed 4 or 5 criteria into an app and get back a music feed that may meet my musical criteria but provide me with something new I might not otherwise hear.
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rukmal-w 4432 days ago
That's a good idea jgeorge. Do you have any idea as to what kind of metrics we would have to collect about songs to generate this kind of data?
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jgeorge 4430 days ago
As far as I know, the OMGP keeps this - listen to Pandora, for example, and then click on "why are we playing this song?" or whatever it's called - I don't have it in front of me. It'll list out a list of criteria that it used to choose the song, based on mostly similar criteria from the original song/artist you chose.

All I'd like to do is feed in criteria and get music, not feed in music and get music based on the same criteria.

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rukmal-w 4430 days ago
Oh, awesome. I didn't know that. My team will definitely take a look at that before designing the metrics we collect. Thanks for your input.
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