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So I read an article the other day about how birds have individual tastes in music, and it occurred to me that when I play music at home, I pretty much just play what I feel like hearing.
Well, that hardly seems fair, since Gus has to listen to it too, and I know listening to someone else's music choices can get old if your tastes or even your moods don't match that day.
So I decided to do something about it. I've created a Pandora channel just for Gus. As it plays songs, I watch his reactions to see if they should get a thumbs up or thumbs down. Sometimes he'll bob his head or whistle or preen, which I'm interpreting as approval. Other times, he'll get crabby, which is definitely disapproval, and sometimes he completely ignores the song and focuses on other things, in which case I'll leave it alone and see if he reacts to it another day.
I'm only just beginning this experiment, but I'm curious to see how well Pandora's algorithms pick up on his tastes and whether he becomes more responsive to tunes as he realizes he can choose what to play and what to skip.
I'm also really curious to see what songs he ends up liking! He might have totally different tastes from me!
I seeded the channel with a song the article mentioned was introduced to the experiment by accident (when staff members played it for themselves), and which appeared to be universally appreciated by the subjects of their experiment:
"Twisted Nerve." (Aka that whistled song in "Kill Bill").
Gus definitely likes that one.
Anyway, I thought it might be fun to invite other people to try the same thing and compare results as the game/experiment progresses.
Anybody interested?
Well, that hardly seems fair, since Gus has to listen to it too, and I know listening to someone else's music choices can get old if your tastes or even your moods don't match that day.
So I decided to do something about it. I've created a Pandora channel just for Gus. As it plays songs, I watch his reactions to see if they should get a thumbs up or thumbs down. Sometimes he'll bob his head or whistle or preen, which I'm interpreting as approval. Other times, he'll get crabby, which is definitely disapproval, and sometimes he completely ignores the song and focuses on other things, in which case I'll leave it alone and see if he reacts to it another day.
I'm only just beginning this experiment, but I'm curious to see how well Pandora's algorithms pick up on his tastes and whether he becomes more responsive to tunes as he realizes he can choose what to play and what to skip.
I'm also really curious to see what songs he ends up liking! He might have totally different tastes from me!
I seeded the channel with a song the article mentioned was introduced to the experiment by accident (when staff members played it for themselves), and which appeared to be universally appreciated by the subjects of their experiment:
"Twisted Nerve." (Aka that whistled song in "Kill Bill").
Gus definitely likes that one.
Anyway, I thought it might be fun to invite other people to try the same thing and compare results as the game/experiment progresses.
Anybody interested?
I once had a budgie who LOVED heavy metal. He would get so excited. I used to buy Iron Maiden and AC DC albums specially for him.
Funny, I've played all the Golden Oldies for Farlie and haven't gotten any reaction to music from him at all. I also have the Blues, deep down southern delta blues but nothing there either.
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