A friend of mine just told me about a site; last.fm
The idea basic idea of the site is nothing new, you listen to music you like and it learns what you like and helps you find other music similar to what you are interested in. I used one ages ago that was shut down and its great to find something like it again.
Anyone heard of any other similar sites out there?
BTW:this site is legal as far as I can tell... which is nice.. It wont get shut down just when I'm getting into it:P
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by Hanakuso » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:19 pm
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by Kuang_Grade » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:41 am
I don't know if these two stream outside the US but you might find these of interest.
http://www.pandora.com/
They use a self developed 'Music Genome Project', which sorts through songs on a very specific level ("Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.") It works relatively well, although you have to teach it a bit.
http://www.ilike.com
This works less as a "listen to this all afternoon" site and more "find new bands you don't know about" site mixed in with a social networking aspect.
It works by clamping on and feeding off your itunes habits (your itunes play count stats on your computer not your ipod, which likely skews the results to those who spend alot of time infront of their computer) after sniffing through your entire collection and then posting those stats onto a specific webpage showing how cool your are(although you can block who can see it and also block specific bands from appearing on your lists (so if you secretly rock out to the Numa Numa song or the 2 Live Crew's Welcome to the Fuck shop, your dirty little secret won't put out on your page). So your friends can see what you are listening to lately, what you've listened to the most, and what songs you have and they can listen to 30 second clips of probably 50% of what you have depending on the band (not clips from your collection but from a central server...like listening to sample sound clips on at itunes music store or amazon)...Along with the sound clip, it will even do a search on youtube for a video clips and play them in a tiny, tiny window if you select it. The service will also match your collection with other people to see if there are similarities of interest...you can then look at those people's sites and in a fairly cool feature, you can edit their site just to see the songs they have they but you don't and then listen to clips of those songs...it will even advance through and stream the 30 seconds clips automatically...so its like amazon's collaborative filtering advice with alot less clicking. It is interesting to see what people have and what they are listening to...who would have thought that, say, Slipknot and Utada might have the some fans in common. You can also search by specific bands and look at who likes them and then see what else they like.
Here is one random user I found under looking at who likes Gackt
(about 125 users or so) but otherwise seems to like standard US alternative (or what ever the kids call it today) music
http://www.ilike.com/user/Rachelle_A6
The thought that this could just be an elaborate RIAA honey pot has occurred to me but ilike recently got a $20 million investment by Ticketmaster (who will probably use this information to improve their marketing strategies as well as letting folks know when bands you like are going coming to your town), so it seems legit enough.
It also has a pretty fun 'name that tune' game using streamed samples that has burned up a few hours of my time already.
http://www.pandora.com/
They use a self developed 'Music Genome Project', which sorts through songs on a very specific level ("Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.") It works relatively well, although you have to teach it a bit.
http://www.ilike.com
This works less as a "listen to this all afternoon" site and more "find new bands you don't know about" site mixed in with a social networking aspect.
It works by clamping on and feeding off your itunes habits (your itunes play count stats on your computer not your ipod, which likely skews the results to those who spend alot of time infront of their computer) after sniffing through your entire collection and then posting those stats onto a specific webpage showing how cool your are(although you can block who can see it and also block specific bands from appearing on your lists (so if you secretly rock out to the Numa Numa song or the 2 Live Crew's Welcome to the Fuck shop, your dirty little secret won't put out on your page). So your friends can see what you are listening to lately, what you've listened to the most, and what songs you have and they can listen to 30 second clips of probably 50% of what you have depending on the band (not clips from your collection but from a central server...like listening to sample sound clips on at itunes music store or amazon)...Along with the sound clip, it will even do a search on youtube for a video clips and play them in a tiny, tiny window if you select it. The service will also match your collection with other people to see if there are similarities of interest...you can then look at those people's sites and in a fairly cool feature, you can edit their site just to see the songs they have they but you don't and then listen to clips of those songs...it will even advance through and stream the 30 seconds clips automatically...so its like amazon's collaborative filtering advice with alot less clicking. It is interesting to see what people have and what they are listening to...who would have thought that, say, Slipknot and Utada might have the some fans in common. You can also search by specific bands and look at who likes them and then see what else they like.
Here is one random user I found under looking at who likes Gackt
(about 125 users or so) but otherwise seems to like standard US alternative (or what ever the kids call it today) music
http://www.ilike.com/user/Rachelle_A6
The thought that this could just be an elaborate RIAA honey pot has occurred to me but ilike recently got a $20 million investment by Ticketmaster (who will probably use this information to improve their marketing strategies as well as letting folks know when bands you like are going coming to your town), so it seems legit enough.
It also has a pretty fun 'name that tune' game using streamed samples that has burned up a few hours of my time already.
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by Charles » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:16 am
I think allmusic.com is the most useful site for exploring music. It has extensive discographies on just about every band, and you can listen to samples of songs. If you want recommendations, just follow the "related" links.
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