![]() Much like Pandora, Spotify offers a radio-like service with thumbs up and down for likes and dislikes, shaping a station and letting you see a playlist of what’s coming up next. Probably the most popular of the streaming services, Spotify has practically taken over the world with its take on streaming media, providing not just individual albums and songs for unlimited streaming, but oodles of playlists and radio. So what are the options available to Australians for great customisable music radio? A paid option was available if you didn’t like ads, but one of the key sticking points was that you weren’t forced to pay if you didn’t want to, which made Pandora more like radio than any other service.īut now that Pandora is going away following a restructuring of the company in America, we don’t suppose we’ll be using Pandora for its ad-free music discovery anymore. Not only that, but the service was ad supported, making it free for most people. We’ve used Pandora pretty much every day for those five years, and a little over, finding ways to gain access to the system so we could keep its supply of great musical connections working for us. In essence, Pandora’s life science approach to music means you don’t need to see the paths between different artists, songs, and music styles, because the system can, and it does a bloody good job.įive years into Pandora being in Australia, we can’t tell you how many people we’ve run into that have said “Pandora helped me to discover this great band”, and we’re in the same boat, introducing us to artists that we’ve gone on to listen to, to see in performance, and to buy albums for. Other music services may have the likes and dislikes thing going for it, but none that we know of relies on a principle similar to life sciences, meaning discoveries won’t exactly be the same, and possibly based on the artist listens to what other users or editors of the system have found. ![]() This creates a sort of DNA for the style you’re defining, inspiring song choices and strengthening the fabric that makes up your radio station. These data links create what is very similar to a lightning pitchfork, starting with a major path - the artist or song of your choice - before spreading out into other areas, linking music choices and songs based on what you say you like with a thumbs up, what you say you don’t with a thumbs down, and discovering unique choices based on those. That concept basically treats music and sound as if it were a living and breathing organism, and our understanding and love for it could be broken into those characteristics, allowing a data engine to find the paths between songs to others, thereby providing suggestions for other songs and playing them. We’ve added the lines to show how the songs connect in the Music Genome Project. Pandora differs slightly from that by breaking down those connections into characteristics: key tonalities, genre stylings, uses of instruments, and so on and so on, with the information contained in what’s called the “Music Genome Project”. Other music services often define connections to songs and artists by similar songs and artists, with other systems such as thumbs up and thumbs down ratings helping to shape a path that reveals your likes and dislikes over time. If you’ve never looked into Pandora, it works not just by taking your artist selection and likes and dislikes, but also by having data scientists listen to each song and applying characteristics to the tunes to create what is essentially a form of DNA for songs. ![]() Unfortunately there’s no “replacement” for Pandora per se, because Pandora is quite unique. This is the error message you can expect to see.Įditor’s note: you can also listen to a condensed version of this story in a special edition of “The Wrap” podcast. ![]() Now, it seems Australians will return to the way things were, as the location-based block returns, and the app and website goes down, disappearing much like how access to US Netflix did some time ago. In fact, from its inception back in 2000 until around 2007, Australians could access the service through a web browser, but then the geoblock went up and Pandora made things difficult for folks who liked its take on custom music stations. Originally arriving in Australia in July 2012, Pandora was one of the first streaming services made available locally, officially landing on our small spot of the world twelve years after Pandora first launched. It’s August 1, and that means Pandora no longer exists in Australia. With the loss of Pandora in Australia, streaming music changes dramatically, so what can you do, and which platform should you switch to? ![]()
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