Pandora launches automatically generated personalized playlists

Pandora has announced it is testing personalized playlists with select Pandora Premium users that are automatically generated based on a person’s individual listening habits, as reported by TechCrunch. The playlists will appear over time and auto-populate in up to 60 different categories, like “Your Party Soundtrack” or “Your Chill Soundtrack.”

Pandora is leveraging its Music Genome Project to power these playlists. The Music Genome Project uses over 450 attributes, or “genes” that describe various elements of a song, like the type of background vocals or the gender of the lead vocalist, in order to classify songs. Pandora is then taking this raw data and using it in combination with a series of over 75 machine learning algorithms, c...

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