IF we had a clue how pandora’s database worked (and we don’t — it’s pretty complicated, I’m sure). But IF you knew how to get data into a pandora-like database (or pandora could be persuaded to try something out like this themselves), then one could in theory publish a widget that can be included on music weblogs to categorize the tunes found there .. or even better, integrated into the flash players everyone’s using these days.

So, not necessarily “expert musicologists” like pandora has, but “wisdom of the masses” type stuff.

SO, folks view your tunes on your blog, and if they’re nice, sort them, It all goes back to a big database, getting all of that cc music into a pandora like thing.

This is where automated techniques, such as audio content analysis can be effective. In a head to head race, I’ll take the human analysis every time, but the computer is a lot faster, cheaper and less subjective. Automated techniques which incorporate a human computational element should eventually win out.

one word: pandora

http://pandora.com

now, they just need to work on getting all that CC and independently produced music out there on blogs into pandora’s database.