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Pandora!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:54 pm
by Tonamel
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 $10 monthly price tag.
However!
It has now been made free to use (ad-supported, natch, but as far as I can tell, they haven't actually
implemented the ads yet), and generates radio stations based on songs/bands you tell it to base them on. I'm loving it so far, and heartily reccomend the stations "The American Analog Set," "The Arcade Fire," and "Dirty Dozen Brass Band."
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:45 am
by ken
This is dope.
Ken
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:53 am
by pegor
ken wrote:This is dope.
Ken
I said I like radiohead and got Duran Duran and Devo.
this is dopey
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:59 pm
by ken
Yes, until they make you sign up to use their service. Oh well.
Ken
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:57 pm
by j$
I said I like Buzzcocks and I got, ... Buzzcocks!
j$
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:37 pm
by starfinger
This has been giving me all manners of awesome music all afternoon.
I likey.
-craig
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:56 pm
by Niveous
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:21 pm
by Adam!
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.]
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:23 pm
by starfinger
my most entertaining playlists came from 'skinny puppy' and 'tindersticks'
and niv, at least deadweight is awesome.
-craig
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:34 pm
by erik
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:12 pm
by HeuristicsInc
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
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:34 pm
by mkilly
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:14 am
by HeuristicsInc
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
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:24 am
by Caravan Ray
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!