i have been using pandora for quite some time now. a few weeks ago i decided to create a new station ... and decided to base this station on the track 'hands of time' by groove armada. the songs that pandora threw up were awesome ... and i rated them. some of the recommendations were not upto the mark, and i asked pandora to never play them again.
after about a week of doing this, the station now plays only a handful of songs !!! its almost like i have a playlist on winamp and i am iterating through it at random. occasionally a new song does come up, but the tracklist is pretty much static now for this station.
i must add that i have used all possible rating methods for refining this station. thumbs up/dowm, the 'guide us' pop up menu options ...
what i infer from this? if u spend enough time refining your choices ... u can train pandora algorithm to be very sensitive to your preferences ... and ofcourse the algorithm probably goes into a loop or something ... its almost like you are restricting its preferences and refining its options to one particular line of intrest. for a lack of better word, i would call the pandora system 'breakable' ... not predictable ... but it can be trained.
had a long week so i am going to sign off now ... if you want to see proof for the above just shoot me an email (zarthos@gmail.com) with your pandora account name and i will share the station with you.
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