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{{w|Pandora Radio|Pandora}} is a website which automatically plays songs of a certain genre based upon the user's previous musical selections. Unlike normal radio, it adapts itself to each individual user's preferences, producing playlists that the user should find enjoyable based on the user's taste in music. In other words, Pandora plays music you will probably like. | {{w|Pandora Radio|Pandora}} is a website which automatically plays songs of a certain genre based upon the user's previous musical selections. Unlike normal radio, it adapts itself to each individual user's preferences, producing playlists that the user should find enjoyable based on the user's taste in music. In other words, Pandora plays music you will probably like. | ||
| β | One may not want friends to find out that one enjoys certain songs and/or certain kinds of songs ("embarrassing music"), for fear of looking childish, sentimental, etc. A recent example is the {{w|Frozen (soundtrack)|soundtrack}} to the 2013 film {{w|Frozen (2013 film)|''Frozen''}}: although enjoying popularity and critical acclaim, it is considered by many to be | + | One may not want friends to find out that one enjoys certain songs and/or certain kinds of songs ("embarrassing music"), for fear of looking childish, sentimental, etc. A recent example is the {{w|Frozen (soundtrack)|soundtrack}} to the 2013 film {{w|Frozen (2013 film)|''Frozen''}}: although enjoying popularity and critical acclaim, it is considered by many to be embarrasing music, because they do not want others to know that they like a soundtrack to a Disney animated film. |
| β | One certainly does not want one's | + | One certainly does not want one's embarrasing music to be played on Pandora when others are around. The frequency of this depends on individual circumstances, but generally one's embarrasing music is a small fraction of all music one likes. However, due to {{w|Confirmation bias#Biased memory|biased memory}}, people remember cases where embarrasing music is played in others' presence far better than those where "acceptable music" is played. So it appears that when others are around Pandora only plays embarrasing music. |
The title text presents an example of this, the music in question being the {{w|Enchanted (soundtrack)|soundtrack}} to {{w|Enchanted (2007 film)|''Enchanted''}}, a fantasy romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Despite the user proclaiming that the Pandora algorithm is terrible to explain why it's playing the Enchanted soundtrack, after a short period of silence the user quietly begins singing along to the song "{{w|That's How You Know (Disney song)|That's How You Know}}" from the soundtrack, which is apparently the song currently playing. | The title text presents an example of this, the music in question being the {{w|Enchanted (soundtrack)|soundtrack}} to {{w|Enchanted (2007 film)|''Enchanted''}}, a fantasy romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Despite the user proclaiming that the Pandora algorithm is terrible to explain why it's playing the Enchanted soundtrack, after a short period of silence the user quietly begins singing along to the song "{{w|That's How You Know (Disney song)|That's How You Know}}" from the soundtrack, which is apparently the song currently playing. | ||
