The sketch I came up with was involving a feature to skip songs but track how many times a song is skipped. When you skip a song Pandora can prompt a question whether you disliked the song or simply wanted to hear the next song. If you skipped it because you just did not like it, it would then be filtered out of the system so you no longer heard the song. On the other side, if you were skipping a song because you just wanted to hear what else was there, a countdown letting you know how many times you have left to skip songs before being rejected from a station may result in less songs being skipped. This is my rough sketch of my idea.
November 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I think you have missed the general idea from our discussion. I could be wrong becuase i had to leave early but I was under the impression from the google groupthat “we want to create an interface that makes Pandora more of a radio station that better recognizes the music you like. By doing so we want a program that scans your music from your computer and incorporates it into a radio station with music that isn’t in your library.” I like your idea though, it is creative. I think there is already just a skip song option, and if you click the thumbs-down icon it skips the song as well and recognizes the difference. I’m not sure if when a song is disliked it’ll come back up again, but that would be something to check into to expand upon your idea. Or even have some add on pop up when the browser is minimized so you dont have to keep going back and forth to give thumbs up or down. Reducing crappy songs is a noble effort! haha
November 10, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This feature could reduce efforts from a user to filter his/her songs. If it is not already there (see previous comment). And, professor Bardzell suggested a situation with several people on the same computer, so this could work for that too. A person would wait listening to a track, if it is unfamiliar, and then skip it, if he/she doesn’t like it. And, if the song is familiar, and the user just wants to listen to another one for now, he would do that immediately (or almost at least). So, there could be a timer, where for a playing time more than, lets say, 30 secs, the song would be counted as unfamiliar and disliked. Less than 30 secs- just skip the song this time.