Weekly Writer: Week 33
Pandora's Box
Music / Makes the People / Come Together
Those Idle Gaps
iPod Potpourri
Start up iTunes / WinAMP / BSPlayer / MP3 Device of choice on random. Listen while you read this journal entry. When it's done, take the song it finished on (this way you can't "cheat" and start on a good song). With this song, answer the following: How did it end up in your music collection? Do you like the song? What do you think the song is about? Go to pandora (link) and put the song/artist in and let it find a recommendation for you.
(Second series of questions, haha this is a long one!) How accurate was the selection (do you think it was similar at all to what you were listening to)? Do you like what it picked out? Do you think computers can ever accurately predict something like your tastes in music?
Music / Makes the People / Come Together
Those Idle Gaps
iPod Potpourri
Start up iTunes / WinAMP / BSPlayer / MP3 Device of choice on random. Listen while you read this journal entry. When it's done, take the song it finished on (this way you can't "cheat" and start on a good song). With this song, answer the following: How did it end up in your music collection? Do you like the song? What do you think the song is about? Go to pandora (link) and put the song/artist in and let it find a recommendation for you.
(Second series of questions, haha this is a long one!) How accurate was the selection (do you think it was similar at all to what you were listening to)? Do you like what it picked out? Do you think computers can ever accurately predict something like your tastes in music?
Pandora gave me Emilie Simon Flowers, because it doesn't have Toy-Box as an artist (Which made me feel better, since I thought I'd have them listed in my stations, then I remembered that I'd gone down this road before), but as a song done by Sheila E.. Ha! Toy-Box, elusive, even now, how you taunt me! Obviously not what I was looking for, but probably not Pandora's fault. As a general rule, Pandora is pretty darn good at predicting and introducing me to music I like. It does miss on a few songs it puts on my playlist, but then nobody is perfect =P