Question for Pandora users: is it possible to search on specific song attributes?

Status
Not open for further replies.

nauru

Member
Sep 11, 2009
30
0
0
So I suppose this is a question for 'power users' of Pandora, the internet radio service.

When looking into "why was this song selected" pandora tells you all the specific attribute tags which have been assigned to the song in question. Things like "four on the floor beat" and "female vocalist" etc. Here is the attribute page for Rocket Man: http://www.pandora.com/#!/music/song/elton+john/rocket+man

mellow rock instrumentation
a subtle use of vocal harmony
acoustic rhythm piano
thru composed melodic style
acoustic sonority
major key tonality
melodic songwriting
a dynamic male vocalist
acoustic rhythm guitars

I wish to search the Pandora library for all the songs which have all of 3 or 4 specific attributes that I'm looking for since a certain combination of attributes is strongly correlated to my enjoyment of songs in certain genres. Is it possible to do this, either within Pandora or through some workaround?

Years ago I would use google to search on my desired attribute tags, "pandora", and I think a piece a pandora page's url; the first or second hit would always bring me to the perfect page within pandora which was not accessible directly from the user interface, and immediately introduce me to songs which had the attributes I want. Then I could sample the song to see if it's decent, and if so, hear a full version on youtube or elsewhere to see if it's the sort of thing I'm looking for. However google's search results have become more cluttered and I'm not finding the good proper results anymore.

So I'm wondering if there are others here who use Pandora and have figured out a good way to get what I'm after.

Thanks.
 

nauru

Member
Sep 11, 2009
30
0
0
In the interest of saving time, does spotify allow the user to search with the level of granularity that I've described above?

EDIT: nevermind, it doesn't want users who are running linux so Spotify is a non-starter.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.