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If you know the kind of music or musicians you like, online music discovery service Pandora, could be right up your alley. The service, which debuted this week, builds up tailored streams of music based on a user's stated preference for an artist or a song.

Pandora Media, formerly known as Savage Beast Technologies, based its new service on the Music Genome Project, the company's close to six-year study of the 300,000 songs of more than 10,000 artists undertaken by 30 musician analysts, Pandora Media says in a release.

The analysts rate each song across 400 musical traits including melody, harmony, rhythm, orchestration, and lyrics. In this way, the linkages between pieces of music aren't strictly tied to a specific genre or artist, meaning users may discover artists and songs they're unfamiliar with. It takes 20 minutes to 30 minutes to process each song, according to information on the company's Web site.
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Read More / Source: PC World