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Peter Harris:
Okay, I've used both Last.fm and Pandora for over a month, and I still haven't decided which one I like more.  I like Pandora's ability to immediately immerse you with all the love you get form your new favorite band, but I also like Last.fm's ability to accomodate your gradually shifting musical tastes.

Does anybody here have strong feelings one way or the other, and why?

jimbunny:
I like Pandora much more than Last.fm, actually. Like you said: it's immediate. It's also simple, and it provides you with a lot of pretty good stuff. Last.fm, while it's a good concept, does much more than I want it to. It also gives me the feeling of being watched: keeping a record of everything I listen to, much more putting it up for everyone to see? I'm not out to impress everyone (at least everyone on the net) with what I'm listening to, nor do I want to be judged if I occasionally want to listen to something "unimpressive."  So far, I haven't noticed better results with Last.fm radio, either.

Slick:
I have not used pandora, but last.fm has made me an awesome friend from the internet, so I say it's the way to go.

greenMonkey:
I think that while the idea of basing similar artists on tags and what other people listen to is not perfect, the idea that a certain group of people can go through and assign musical "genes" to artists is even worse.  Therefore I like Last.fm.

KharBevNor:
Pandora is hugely flawed. Last.fm can give you decent recommendations based off of any artist, ever. Last time I went on Pandora it suggested that Drowning Pool was similiar to Mayhem, and that Coldplay was similiar to Current 93.

Also, last.fm offers shitloads more stuff than Pandora, vis a vis community features, networking, the artist wikis, the events system and so on and so forth.

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