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[blackmanjew]

Just for the people who haven't stumbled across this site, Pandora is an intergrated Flash program, which lets you listen to thousands of other bands that are similar to your favorite bands! Check it out, its free!

http://www.pandora.com

P.S. I have nothing to do with this site, so I'm not spamming for myself

[greenMonkey]

I (and many others on the forum) use http://www.last.fm.

[eyepatch]

Before I found lastfm my life was much less musical :)

And the Questionable Content last.fm group for reference: http://www.last.fm/group/Questionable%2BContent

[El Opium]

I tried Pandora at a friends and wasn't impressed. It kept on playing stuff by mid-nineties major lable washouts when I put in My Bloody Valentine, and somehow ended up playing nu-metal when I put in Wire.

[KharBevNor]

It's because, as I said before, it's musical gene thing seems to have been designed by people who don't have a comprehensive grasp of music. A lot of the musical genes are also fucking innacurate. I put in Current 93 and it gave me Coldplay, because of pianos. C93 only use a fucking piano on one or two albums.

[jcknbl]

Right, there is only so much about music that can be reduced to "genes" or whatever. Qualities like aesthetic and not-suckiness are pretty much left out. The results are therefore either absurd or bands like the one you input but worse.

But I don't know that its the fault of the programmers. I'm not sure it would be possible to program those things.

[Not An Addict]

The limitations on skipping songs drives me bugfuck, but the program spits out one or two gems that make it worth the wait for me, stuff I would likely have never discovered otherwise. It doesn't work well if your musical tastes are all over the map, or if you only like one song by a particular band but the program seems determined to educate you on that band's entire discography. Interesting idea, though.

[amok]

I tried Pandora at a friends and wasn't impressed. It kept on playing stuff by mid-nineties major lable washouts when I put in My Bloody Valentine, and somehow ended up playing nu-metal when I put in Wire.

Yeah, Pandora's music-matching is roughly on par with that of a deaf two-year-old. I fed it an EBM band and it skipped straight to embarrassing disco music.

Last.FM (mine's in my sig) is the canine's nuts.

[greenMonkey]

Last.FM (mine's in my sig) is the canine's nuts.

Most definitely.  Hooray for streaming radio with unlimited skipping, song/artist/user recommendations, and too many groups to count!

[blackmanjew]

Egh, not feeling last.fm too much.

They didnt have the following artists that shoudl be there.

Mustaphamond
Tera Melos
Neil Perry
Saetia

I don't understand it too much, it showed that people have played it, but I'm guessing that means they played it from their own files and not off of last.fm

Oh well.

[greenMonkey]

Egh, not feeling last.fm too much.

They didnt have the following artists that shoudl be there.

Mustaphamond
Tera Melos
Neil Perry
Saetia

I don't understand it too much, it showed that people have played it, but I'm guessing that means they played it from their own files and not off of last.fm

Oh well.

They have the artist descriptions and similar artists, but not any playable tracks.  That is actually the artist's or label's responsibility, as label's can upload songs to payed on Last.fm radio and on streaming page previews.

[Rubby]

All this time I had no idea that Lastfm had radio.

[greenMonkey]

And speaking of Last.fm, they just upgraded it.  But they forgot to tell anyone beforehand.  And all the servers are slow as shit.  And the radio JUST started working again.  And the new software is annoying.  But still, coolest site ever.

[Druid]

I tried Pandora at a friends and wasn't impressed. It kept on playing stuff by mid-nineties major lable washouts when I put in My Bloody Valentine, and somehow ended up playing nu-metal when I put in Wire.

I tried that same thing, and found that My Bloody Valentine isn't a good stream starter.  My techno stream started with DJ Shadow turned out well though, and my indie stream likes playing lots of early eighties punk.

Pandora is a fun little time waster. I'd like a place where I could go to delist bands in bulk instead of waiting until something by them is played, but that might defeat the concept of it.

[brandie]

Yeah Pandora is great in concept, but not so slick in execution.  I almost threw up when I put in Clap Your Hands and it played freakin DAVE MATTHEWS BAND.  I put in Jolie Holland and it played Alanis Morsette.  *sigh*   My Autechre stream isn't too terrible though since I know nothing about IDM.  I'll try lastfm next time around though.  I've been meaning to get an account on there.