What is Pandora Radio®?
Pandora Radio® is an internet website that provides user-specific music playlists based on personal preferences. Created by a group of technology-savvy musicians calling themselves The Music Genome Project, Pandora works based on mathematical algorithms that break down a song into components and rate its similarity to a song the user enjoys. Pandora is considered an enormous achievement in music analysis by many, and has grown in popularity enormously since its release in the early 21st century. A song has dozens of individual components that makes it different from any other piece of music. Pandora Radio® works by analyzing each song by its individual pieces, such as rhythm, instruments used, harmonic scheme, musical key, and lyrical themes. All in all, The Music Genome Project has over 2000 different categories by which a song can be measured. When developing your own Pandora station, these categories are used to find songs that closely match your preferences. Pandora Radio® is curre
