Music you enjoy, but didn’t know
If you’re like me you’ll enjoy listening to music when doing some design work. You’ll also enjoy finding out about new artists that match your music tastes. There’s a nice FREE online music player that lets you enter your favourite musicians or bands and it’ll create custom stations around their music genre.
For instance, in my screenshot above I added four different artists (shown in the little grey tabs on the left of the box). The player saves this info to my account so that anytime I visit the Pandora website it remembers my choices. The music player automatically generates similar styled tracks on an ongoing basis, and no need to login over and over as my info is stored on my computer.
It takes a while to tailor your stations to your exact tastes, and if you don’t like the choice of track Pandora comes up with then give it the ‘thumbs down’ and it will skip to the next track, while continuing to tailor your online station. It won’t be long before it offers up some excellent new additions to your music collection. It’s a pretty cool idea, and one I’ve been using for about a year now.
It’s currently only available to US residents, but if you give them any US postcode you’ll be able to register in no time at all (shhhh). You can read about Pandora in the press here.
Have you used it before? What do you think of the idea?
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This is a great service. I am usually between pandora and last.fm for my listening habits. I like last.fm because of the stand alone service.. But pandora seems to serve better music..
But you are right, I have found a ton of great music this way!
Hey this sounds like a Yahoo’s radio service Launchcast. Although Launchcast kept a track of the number of songs you listened to and if you didn’t subscribe then they’d cut you off at a certain number. This seems a lot more in depth in it’s analysis; more like it’s from a music lover’s P.O.V.
I haven’t seen last.fm Jason. I’ll take a look.
Sounds like the Yahoo one isn’t worth it though Drew. One thing Pandora don’t do is cut you off. There is a paid-for version, that doesn’t show ads. See in the screenshot how there’s a box in the upper right? That’ll include third party ads because I don’t subscribe, but that’s no big deal.
I like music. I like free stuff. I like being in control. This soulnds like just the thing for me. Thanks!
David check out this link:
http://www.bradsucks.net/
It is a guy from Ottawa, Canada and you can download his latest album for free. Great stuff.
Ed
Thanks Ed,
I’ll definitely check him out. Thanks also for the great review on BlogCatalog.