Yr own personal radio station.
This is possibly the coolest thing i've ever found on the net. (note: requires ADSL to be of any use).
Go to
http://www.pandora.com/
Tell the site what an artist you like. It will then create a radio station (which plays from inside yr browser) that plays music similiar to yr choice, as well as that artist. You can also add more artists that you like, to give pandora a greater range of similiar artists to select from. Muel, I haven't tried this with heavy metal, but I bet it works. Once you've got yr radio station cranking, you can even email it to friends. So sweet... specially when you get sick of your own MP3 collection..
posted by bodhiflip @ 12:40 PM
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How is this different to last.fm?
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/01/pandora_vs_last.html
Both are good...i'm cranking both. There's something nice and simple about Pandora for less technical users, or people without a computer full of mp3s to gather music taste data from.
This things pretty cool! I've spent most of today listening to tunes and hogging all my work's bandwidth.
You can play "similar artist"
radio streams and the like on last.fm without gathering the data from your playing habits... you just type in an artist name. It is always nice to see other alternatives :)
yeah i didnt realise that until I had a closer look the other day. lastfm has similiar functions, as well as the whole charts approach... question worth asking; which plays the best music? Apparently there is a system being built which listens to music (a computer listening to music?) and analyses it for similiarities with other music. Heard anything about that timbo? Also, email me yr Pandora radio station Whiteboy. I sent mine to you...
I like the streaming radio for the fact that it lets you listen to stuff you haven't actaully got a copy of, but the quality of the audio is not really up to scratch. I use it more to find the artists, then I get the album :)
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Bodes check out http://www.musicip.com/ They have software which kinda 'listens' to music to analyse it etc... I think it would take a REALLY LONG TIME analyse all you tunes...
I only just downloaded it so I can't comment on it but it's mentioned in that article I told you about apparently it can do some cool shit - but not quite up to scratch with pandora as they actually have people analyse their tunes!
Sounds intriguing, I would like to see this "ability to analyse musical content for meaningful (to humans) musical attributes, so that the software is able to identify tracks that are acoustically similar"
We're not quite at AI stage yet, so I would love to know how it is done, and how good it is.
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