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How Computers, Curators, And Users Create Pandora's Playlists
fastcompany.com 1 month agoIn this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists? Photo by Toby Burditt "Hundreds of musical attributes are used to describe songs. Twenty-six alone describe vocal performance: how breathy or gravelly it is, how much falsetto is used, and more. That's too much nuance for software on its own. So we hired humans--specifically, profess


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