Pandora vs. Last.fm. Which is better?
One of the noted difference between Last. Fm and Pandora, is that the former has a line up of music that is independent, whereas the latter favors conventional music that is widely available in the market. Both platforms creates a station around the kind of music the listener likes, but in terms of convenience for user, it is heads up for Pandora.
One of the noted difference between the two site lies in the technology that they use. Last. Fm utilizes Scrobbling to rank the songs."Scrobbling begins by downloading their software and ranking the songs that you like.
With millions of songs being scrobbled every day, this is a great way to crowdsource popularity. " With regards to Pandora, the site is backed by the Music Genome Project, "which is the work of “a group of musicians and music-loving technologists. €?
This seems to be more of an artisan effort, with this group listening to and defining the music, as opposed to the crowd sourcing method. " In conclusion, based on the facts I mentioned, I would say that Pandora is much better than Pandora, due to its user friendly features and classier designed player compared to its rival.
Pandora uses editors who classify music by attributes like rythm, instruments, kind of vocals, ethic influences etc.etc. So if you like a certain song, Pandora will think "NYC Guy likes percussion music with frequent tempo changes, female vocals and melodic chanting" or something like that. Last.fm is purely statistical, no human intelligence involved. Users tag music with words, allowing last.fm with some certainty to recognize genres.
For the rest of it, it builds correlations between user profiles. To sum it up, Pandora will give you similar music by a quite academic standard, which evaluates music by parameters. Last.fm doesn't know anything about the music, it just knows what other people would recommend.
Practically, I found that Pandora can play some really obscure stuff which does match the style of music you like technically. It doesn't account for things like "taste" or "good" or "popular much. With last.fm, you will get less surprises and also more music which is generally more popular.
Last.fm can stick to genre very solidly, whilst pandora doesn't really care about genre (if you like guitars, male vocals and a laid back rythm you might hear garth brooks followed by tom petty). I personally like last.fm better, because it sticks to genre pretty solidly, and popular choices also give you music that is generally thought to have good quality. With Pandora, quality is not a parameter, you more get the feeling that it is actively pushing you to try out some different stuff based on the parameters of music you like most.
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