With such a variety of answers, it is easy to get lost in the big world of music available on the Internet. Separating the chaff from the wheat is of the most complicated when it comes to software for downloading music. Who has not lost in Kazaa hours trying to decipher what files are corrupted or not or whether he took desperate because, when searching for an artist, got an answer numerous versions of the same song?

The Pandora project http://www.pandora.com came to give a “enough” in the confusion of music downloading. Created six years ago by a team of music experts and headed by American Tim Westergren, Pandora was the first service that classifies the musical styles and is able to separate by their genetic background music.

Explained: when you search on a singer or musical style, Pandora gives answers almost as a family tree of the song, offering the derivations of style, where it originated, similar language and rhythm.

The service, whose concept is as simple as possible, is a hotbed of new talent and / or unknown treasures that can be retrieved with the push of a few buttons.
And it is precisely because of this simple model that the site became a phenomenon on the Internet. Currently there are 60 million users of Pandora and the number tends to grow, especially since the Pandora is seeking other ways to be accessible to people, not limited only to its site, but the new mobile technologies.

Via: Giga Om.