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Want to find new music that's similar to bands and genres you already love? Try pandora.com. I haven't been on it long, but it looks promising.

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I messed around with pandora for a small bit.

I also like doing last.fm. Thats a good place to find new music (using their radio thing).

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Hey, finally pandora has been recognized ;-0

Ive been messing with it for about 5 months and lets just say, Ive bought more cds in the last months then ever before.

Great site overall for sampling music of compared tastes, styles, and genres. My favorite 'stations' are Champagne Supernova (Oasis) & Nirvana. It's introduced me to fantastic bands (which I ended up buying cds for) such as Luke Temple & Mad Science Fair -(Check em' out)

It is pretty promising- giving the listner some control of the music played with 'i like it' and 'dislike it'- which after 2 votes on any band in a station- will delete them from ones playlist.

Ive been meaning to write a enlongated and detailed dissertation on Pandora for awhile, but it has just slipped my mind. Anyways, just a few sentences might be better in the long shot.

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I prefer last.fm. My favourite media player has support for that, and that moved over from the other service, I forget it's title... anyway... I have a last.fm profile that automagically gets recorded to.

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Want to find new music that's similar to bands and genres you already love? Try pandora.com. I haven't been on it long, but it looks promising.

There's a good test about this in the current issue of ct (04/06, p. 192-195). A short overview of the tested systems/software:

• Audioscrobbler - collaborative filtering, data gets exported via XML, support for all major OSes and (software) audio/media players - used within Amarok + LastFM

• AudioInsight - Collaborative + Content Based Filtering, experts try to develop typical music profiles for peer groups, application additionally tries to create a profile out of the user data - used within Napster relaunch

• Music Genome Project - base of pandora.com - 40 profesionall musicians categorize the data

• MoodLogic - tracks get rated by community

• MusicLens - interesting flash-based project - data is used within FineTunes.de

• MusicMiner - Java-based Open Source-project - creates a map (yeah, like a real one: with hills, mountains, desserts, vast space, etc.) of your music collection

• Predixis - tries to automatically create playlists - used within MusicMagic Mixer

• Sony HighFind - developed for the mobile phone section of Sony; works similar as Pandora - used within Streamman.net + Radio DJ (= cell phone application)

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I finally tried this pandora stuff, and it's every bit a replacement for Yahoo's LaunchCast, and well... it does everything it did for me. :)

I'll be sure to click some of Gin's linkies.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Honestly, it's not as good as real radio--or at least the stations I listen to, i.e. non-pop/Top 40.

HAHA...the bands that5 I picked, it couldn't find a match for.

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I prefer last.Fm . I've been using it since 2005 and now its recommendations really hit the spot.

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And last.fm works with my mp3 player, a plethora of open source music players and in some cases even without an internet connection.

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