Ideas: Music Genome Metadata Access

[Almondolphin]

I’m old enough to remember when Pandora was the Music Genome Project.  How far we’ve come, or fallen.

After the passage of the CCPA, Pandora would better align with the spirit of the law by not only allowing users to opt-out of cookies that allow corporations to monetize their data, but also to allow them to independently review and learn from the data they generate.

Like the music genome project of old, which told you what songs had in common (often through countless hours of human labor), it would be nice to have a tab in your account with sophisticated user analytics.  I’m not asking to peek behind the green curtain of proprietary analytics related to business operations, I just want to know what my inputs and choices tell me about my music preferences.  I’d like to get intelligent (dare I say, artificially intelligent), recommendations along the lines of a music educator.

If Pandora treated the relationship between user and brand a bit more respectfully, the end of year Spotify Wrapped embarrassment would be avoided.  But my ideal is not just something superficial like a predigested 9x16 image, but a deeper commitment to the original spirit of this project.  We have great potential to grow as listeners, and if you paired intelligence with audio fidelity, Pandora could be the streaming service of choice for old heads like me.

Return to your roots Pandora. Appreciate many hours of great music thus far.

[wisepeppy]

So say we all!

[TannerPandora]

Hi @Almondolphin 

Thank you for visiting the Ideas Board. Thanks for the feedback, we're always looking to improve and post like yours help with this.

The status of your post has been updated to Open Ideas.

Thanks for visiting community!

[rabidgoat]

Hello all,

@AlmondolphinThank you for saying what needed to be said. This is exactly the reason we all came to Pandora in the first place. We as users want to expand our horizons and, at least for me, I want to experience more music similar to what I already know that I like. I want an educated guess, not just suggestions from the same genre.

@TannerPandoraI hope that you're able to bring this to the people who sign the purchase orders and have the highest salaries. This is the best advice that anyone in a position of authority at pandora could receive.

@NamelessExecutiveBigwig; I can empathize that remaining profitable for the end of continued existence is difficult in the face of unending corporate greed. We may not all have faith that pandora will be what we all wanted, but the original post points out why we all came here and this is the only thing that sets pandora apart from the other streaming services. If the Music Genome Project is not iterated upon then you will have missed the best opportunity that has ever existed in the entire history of the music industry.

Regarding how; while you might not have the rights to some music, consider linking to a competitor as a form of advertisement and work out a proper deal for price. It is worth the loss of a listen because we will keep coming back here. The suggestions from the Music Genome Project are worth FAR more than anything google has ever suggested and should be priced accordingly. We are music fans, have you ever seen merchandise prices at a concert?

We will pay for what we want.

The Music Genome Project is what we want.