I got a comment from Teddy asking if it is perhaps the saturation of the music searching industry that is keeping new apps such as Pocket Hipster from being useful. Music Genome Project is probably the most sophisticated music matching technology currently out in the market. It has the ability to match attributes of songs on 400 levels and make suggestions on similar music accordingly. One cheer for Nolan Gasser, Chief Musicologist of Pandora, for making this possible and turning the art of music searching into a more simplified scientific algorithm. You can check out his INTERVIEW earlier this year with Matthew Lasar along with explanations of how music gets suggested in Pandora.
