Pandora!

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:54 pm

There was some commotion across the internet a while ago about Pandora, a music "search engine" that tells you what songs you might like, based on songs you tell it you already like. It was somewhat shunned because of its $10 monthly price tag.

However!

It has now been made free to use (ad-supported, natch, but as far as I can tell, they haven't actually implemented the ads yet), and generates radio stations based on songs/bands you tell it to base them on. I'm loving it so far, and heartily reccomend the stations "The American Analog Set," "The Arcade Fire," and "Dirty Dozen Brass Band."

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:45 am

This is dope.

Ken

pegor · Post by **pegor** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:53 am

ken wrote:This is dope.

Ken

I said I like radiohead and got Duran Duran and Devo.

this is dopey

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:59 pm

Yes, until they make you sign up to use their service. Oh well.

Ken

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:57 pm

I said I like Buzzcocks and I got, ... Buzzcocks!

j$

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:37 pm

This has been giving me all manners of awesome music all afternoon.
I likey.

-craig

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:56 pm

There used to be a service like this a couple of years ago called Sonicnet. But then VH1 ate it up.

I've been digging this so far. I put in Rasputina and it introduced me to Noe Venable and played some Magnetic Fields. It missed the mark other times (like playng Deadweight) but that's understandable Rasputina is hard to pigeonhole. Between this and Hype Machine, I have a plethora of things to listen to.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:21 pm

I've been nursing a playlist all day. I put in Iron and Wine and it gave me all kinds of good stuff. I added Death From Above and I think I confused the hell out of it, because all it's been giving me since has been Spinal Tap-esque stuff.

[EDIT: Cool, The Spinto Band is on there.]

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:23 pm

my most entertaining playlists came from 'skinny puppy' and 'tindersticks'

and niv, at least deadweight is awesome.

-craig

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:34 pm

If you like "Mates of State" you'll love "Starship"!

ummm, wtf

The things that they use to describe why I might like Mates of State are none of the things that interest me in their music. Or music in general.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:12 pm

i tried this a while back, but i can't really stream a lot of data from work.
it's kinda neat, though. i put in jazz butcher, and it did indeed give me stuff that was kinda similar.
-bill

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:34 pm

Noe Venable has opened for Ani DiFranco and They Might Be Giants. I got to see her open for the latter. I really liked her song "Feral," which she hadn't finished at that point. I didn't like it enough to buy the album when it eventually came out, though.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:14 am

Well, now the ads are implemented, but on the other hand you can now make a station called "heuristics inc" (I sent them a few cds, and they recently added "Your domestic problems are completely solved").
Heuristics Inc. @ Pandora!
-bill

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:24 am

j$ wrote:I said I like Buzzcocks and I got, ... Buzzcocks!

j$

I said I like The Go-Betweens and I got,...The Go-Betweens!

The accuracy of this website is uncanny!