Clear Channel, the largest radio station owner in the United States, has teamed up with music intelligence platform The Echo Nest to build an Internet radio service similar to Pandora and Last.fm.
Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio service uses The Echo Nest’s massive dataset of 30 million songs and 5 billion related data points to let users create radio stations based on their musical tastes. It has been dubbed a potential “Pandora killer” by Billboard and indeed its functionality could hardly be more similar to Pandora’s. Users can create stations based on a particular artist or song, vote tracks up or down and skip a limited number of songs per station.
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