Tools for Music Lovers
By Andy Denton on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 2:25 pm
I can’t believe I hadn’t found this service earlier. But, at least I found it. What a great service! Pandora is a music discovery tool. As their website puts it - Our mission is to help YOU connect with the music YOU like.
Pandora is a great tool that matches music based on artists or songs that you like. Apparently they have spent over 6 years of research manually listening to all of the songs in their catalogue and tagging them appropriately. Here’s a station I created based off of Jack Johnson type music. Sign up is easy, and once you do you can create up to 100 stations, save your favorite songs to a list, share your stations with friends, and can purchase songs or CD’s directly from iTunes and Amazon respectively. A really cool feature about Pandora’s Music Genome project is that it learns your tastes, and updates each station accordingly. You can tell the tool if you don’t like a song, or not to play a certain type of song, and it will learn your taste song by song. Pretty cool.
Although I haven’t tried this service yet, but I hear that Last.fm is a similar product. Several reviews that I have read say that people actually like Last.fm better than Pandora. Apparently it has a bigger catalogue of music, and a different interface that people like. When I breifly looked at the www.Last.fm I noticed that you had to download their software and create an account for it to work. If that’s the case, my vote will be for Pandora. Pandora requires no download, and you can listen for free regardless if you create an account or not.
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