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Music discoverability issue solved, well hopefully

Feb 9, 2006 12:09PM PST

Did anyone check out pandora.com? It's a part of the Music Genome Project which started out as "On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever."

Not sure if this has been posted or spoken of here before. I know Launchcast has something similar but this is actually super simple to use. I spend hours and hours every week scouring for good music to buy and download and I actually like about 90% of the tracks served to me by this service!

The reason I feel it deserves a mention in here and in the podcast is that people right now are having a tough time getting their hands on good new music, as was pointed out in a recent podcast as well. We need more such services and we need such services to become bigger and better and having a bigger collection of music! So there you go, pass the word around and help these guys make it better Happy

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Thanks
Feb 9, 2006 12:24PM PST

I see that site every morning when I'm going through social bookmarking sites. I kept thinking it was something else though, I'll definitely look into it. Thanks for posting!

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Pandora rox!
Feb 9, 2006 12:53PM PST

I just recently discovered pandora because of a recommendation from a friend and have been using it constantly at work. And I agree, its ability to recommend music of a person's tastes is uncanny. Because of this web app, I'v been able to discover new artists and bands I probably would have never heard of without pandora. If you find it hard to find good music out there, pandora is your savior.

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Last.fm too
Feb 9, 2006 2:07PM PST
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Just signed up
Feb 10, 2006 2:16AM PST

I went off your recommendation and just signed up with last.fm and installed the player and the iscrobbler on my computer and this seems even cooler. I like the way the service is actually integrated with my iTunes. Thanks!