How many attributes or “genes” are there in the Music Genome?
There are just shy of 400 musical attributes in the Music Genome Project. When you ask the Pandora Tuner “why is this song playing?” what gets displayed is just a summary of the information used by the Music Genome. Even two songs that show identical answers to “why is this song playing?” still have countless differences that the Music Genome uses when it matches music based on each of those songs. These attribute summaries are intended to provide some interesting insight into the musicological elements of a song — without getting into dozens of individual attributes for each element. — For an explanation of the most common summary elements, please see FAQ Section 6D, beginning with: http://blog.pandora.
