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Stay informed about the latest community updates, AMP features, and improvements we are working on to enhance your experience as part of our community. Whether you're an artist, podcaster, or music enthusiast, this newsletter aims to bring you closer to the heart of the Pandora community. 

We are thrilled to present the first edition of the Pandora Community newsletter: The Listener Lounge

Over the last few years, we on the Music Analysis team here at Pandora have been immersed in a massive project revolving around the question of genre. We set out to identify, name and define all known musical genres - to the best of our ability - so we could then apply those genres to over a hundred thousand artists and millions of songs.

MGP2 - What’s Next for the Music Genome Project

Here at Pandora, we have recently completely redesigned the way we analyze music for the Music Genome Project, with a new system we call MGP2. We’ve developed a collection of new taxonomies that we use to describe songs, and a new, text-based tagging system that allows us to annotate music much more accurately and completely. This new way of annotating has improved all of our downstream systems and led to important improvements in the data science, machine learning, and content understanding that make our recommendation systems the best in the world. 

What is MGP2?