I promise that bub.blicio.us is not turning into an iPhone blog, contrary to a fair number of posts you’ve seen here lately. What has happened, however, is that with the launch of the App store, the iPhone has turned into a viable mobile computing platform, a personal computer that fits in your pocket. We’d be remiss not to cover some of the excellent applications that are now available.
One of my personal favorites is Pandora, which creates personalized radio from the Music Genome Project. You may have played with the online version of Pandora, which works in the same way.
Once you have installed the iPhone Pandora app, it’s a matter of minutes before you set up your universal (accessible from your desktop and your phone) account. Once your account is set up, you can create your own radio stations. Enter the name of an artist or song you like. Pandora, using the Music Genome Project, analyzes the song and discovers similar songs. The end result is a radio station that plays everything you like.
The Music Genome Project analyzes songs based on rhythm, harmonies, and all sorts of things that all go into a mathematical algorithm. Similar songs have nothing to do with genres or artists. It’s fascinating, and it creates great radio.
You can help Pandora learn your preferences by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to each of the songs it plays. You can also bookmark the song or artist to hear them again, or purchase the song directly from the iPhone iTunes store.
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Pandora runs over EDGE, WiFi, and 3G on the 3G and original iPhones running 2.0 software. It’s a free download from the iTunes App Store.
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