Have you guys heard of Pandora.com? It personalizes a music station for you -- Free.

[Arugula Latte]

Amazing -- Just type in your favorite song and the "music genome project" analyzes it to produce songs that it predicts you will like based on certain characteristics of the given song. You can skip the songs you don't like, or give them a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" so the system can continue to refine what you like. Totally fascinating to me.

Right now I'm listening to a station created around the shoegaze song "Vapour Trail" by the group Ride. I also did one based around REM's "Pretty Persuasion" and it came up with a lot of great jangly guitar songs from past and present.

pandora.com

[bluedigger]

1. Heck ya!

I and many coworkers listen to it all the time. Best way to concentrate and get stuff done in cubicle land! I enter artists, not songs, though. It kept playing Beatles today for some reason, although I have never given them the thumbs up.

[Arugula Latte]

7. I'll try it with an artist next.

Maybe something quite obscure, just to see what comes up.

[Blue_Tires]

2. never heard of it

but thanks for the link

[Arugula Latte]

3. You're welcome.

:hi:

[TK421]

4. Thanks SO MUCH for this! I'm trying it out now, and love it so far!

:yourock:

[Arugula Latte]

5. You're welcome! I tried it yesterday for the first time and I'm totally addicted.

So many possibilities.

:hi:

[TK421]

9. I already have seven songs in queue....this will make things at work more

tolerable! :D

[Nickster]

6. It's great stuff. The more artists you put in, the better the selection gets. I've learned of

several new bands that I would have never heard of otherwise.

[Arugula Latte]

8. I know ! I've already found a few bands I like a lot and had never heard of previously.

I was getting frustrated with iTunes; it kept recommending the same bands to me.

[trof]

10. Do NOT open that box!

You'll be sorry.
:-(

[Arugula Latte]

12. But what could possibly go wrong?

[gmoney]

11. Yeah, it kicks ass...

the "Stars" station (the canadian band) is just awesome

[lunatica]

13. I use it daily a work

It's great!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. damn..I opened the box. This is so way cool.

ty. Lovely.
"Hot Club of San Francisco" leads to "Angelo Debarree" leads to......

sleep is probably highly under rated, ya think?

[Arugula Latte]

17. I know. I wonder if someone will pay me to sit and play with it all day.

:)

[Greyskye]

34. If you like The Hot Club of San Francisco...

You will probably enjoy the Pandora links in my sig. :hi:

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. Well, hell, now I gotta open a Bluegrass station to add your cool recs.

2 words back at ya...

Speedy West

ok ok ok...2 more : Spade Cooley

[DS1]

15. I just hope it survives the new royalty system coming into place

[Patiod]

26. Very enjoyable

It turned me on to Cake, who I love (you have to realize I haven't listened to music on the radio since like 1989, so Cake is incredibly recent for me)

[wain]

16. Learned about it in DU

Blocked at work, so I use my iPhone app to pump through my speakers.

[Pithlet]

18. It's pretty cool.

I got the app on my Iphone. It's a great way to find new stuff you've never heard of.

[Pierre.Suave]

19. NO WAY!

REALLY?

DOOD, THATS SO AWESOME...

WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS YEARS AGO...

























oh wait, someone did...

[AwakeAtLast]

20. Wow! I have never heard of it before!

Thanks for an awesome link!

[Arugula Latte]

21. You're welcome!

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

22. Yahoo! music used to do that, don't know if they still do.

And as songs played you could pick how much you liked them on a scale of 1 (never play this again) to 5 (I really like this one).

That was... jeez, last time I listened to that was when I was still with my last serious ex. And we broke up in like '04 or '05 or something. So it's been a while.

[DarkTirade]

32. ... although this seems a lot better because it actually compares styles

to find things that you might like that you haven't heard of. Whereas Yahoo! radio just plays stuff that's already on the REGULAR radio.

[quakerboy]

23. Nermind. Thanks for a second wind

edited to say I am an idiot

[Mojambo]

24. I kind of like the Last.FM setup better, but they're both wonderful.

http://www.last.fm/user/Mojambo

[riverdeep]

25. Love Pandora.

It's been my goto music choice for something like a year now. Much better than listening to the radio, for rock anyway. Also check out Slacker radio, it does the same basic thing as well.

http://www.slacker.com/

I can only get it to work in Internet Explorer, not Firefox for some reason. I like pandora better, though.

[Odin2005]

27. I've been a Pandora addict for a while now.

Love it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

28. Pretty cool

I'm getting some stuff I never heard of, but love.

[bikebloke]

29. They don't have a lot of foreign music yet.

So I still have to go trawling through Amazon France and Germany. But it's great if you're looking for a particular sound.

[Z_I_Peevey]

30. This is great!

I get to work, fire up the old info box and hear George Harrison sing "Give Me Love." Perfect!

[livetohike]

31. Thanks for the tip!

I'm enjoying it now :-).

[Greyskye]

33. My sig has my fave Pandora stations linked in

I've been a Pandora addict for years - it keeps me sane at work.

I'm really addicted to my David Grisman station lately - great high energy instrumentals that make the day go a lot easier. :hi:

[Javaman]

36. Hot club of SF rules! :) loves me some Django. :)

[Greyskye]

38. Django is Djamazing!

Some of my favorite musicians have been heavily influenced by Django. If you haven't heard him before, check out Joe Craven, he's one of the seeds in my "Craven' Grisman" station in my sig. Craven has a great CD out called "Django Latino" - brilliant stuff!

[dembotoz]

37. using pandora for about 1 month now

it is amazing.

it has me so figured out.
I have a thing for Kate Bush. Typed her in an i am stunned by how they play stuff.
Songs by other folks that i always liked but had sort of forgotton.
It is amazing

[astral]

39. Ditto!

I just found Pandora around a month ago too, and it totally blows my socks off.

And I too have heard The Tuna Club for the first time through Pandora ~~~~~~ i typed in "Turtle Island String Quartet" as the artist that pulled them up.

Now I just gotta plug my 'puter into my stereo speakers and really enjoy it.