Pandora

[Soulhunter]

I listen to Pandora (http://pandora.com/) for ~1 month now, its awesome, try it... ^^


"Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. It's powered by the Music Genome Project (http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml), the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe...

We take your input (artists, songs) and feedback ("I like this", "I don't like this") and use the Music Genome Project (http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml) to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you've told us. That's it; only the music counts. We don't care how popular the artist is, who's backing them, and we don't care which genre bin they usually belong in. Only the music matters..."


Bye

[xyloy]

It's like jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com)(legal 'n' free music for everyone, by streaming or download), isn't it ?

[Soulhunter]

Dont think so... It seems Jamendo only offers music by special artists that allow everyone to download and share their music while Pandora offers "commercial" music [ie. Madonna, System of a Down, whatever...] tho not for downloading, just listening... You enter a song title or artist name and it will only play songs with similar style/sound, thats what it basically does!


Bye

[xyloy]

It seems Jamendo only offers music by special artists that allow everyone to download and share their music
under Creative Commons license, more exactly.
More infos here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/static/concept/ http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5315/flowerstg3.gif

Both sites can be awesome for the user's ears. :)

[Soulhunter]

Both sites can be awesome for the user's ears. :)

True! ^^


Thx n' Bye

[foxyshadis]

I've been trying Predexis Msic Magic (now MusicIP), especially since it's integrated in winamp, and while not perfect, it's cool to dredge up songs I'd forgotten about so long ago when asking for mixes based around songs I like. Even if it only gives one or two good hits per mix, that's fine.

Pandora has a pretty similar hit rate, although I have a soft spot for it since the very first song it gave me was pretty awesome. It doesn't recognize half of the names I type in though - needs a little more last.fm integration, I bet - and since you can't do both artist and title, it's easy to end up with lots of bad results when both are pretty generic.

Both are great ways to find more music though, and that's always worth trying out.