Pandora
There seem to be a lot of online radio stations out there as well as music recommendation sites (Last.fm, MusicStrands, etc) but until now nothing that combines the two.
Pandora is a personalised radio service that takes an artist or song you like and it generates a station of music that is related and supposedly similar. The songs it suggests can be rated - if they don’t match your selection it stop relating it to your original choice - which in theory means that the more people using it the better it’ll get.
It’s heavily American focused meaning there’s far too much crappy soft rock but the more you persevere with it the more it learns what you like. Typing the Artic Monkeys the first thing suggested was the LA Guns (a awful 80s soft rock outfit) but later on I got some good Henry Rollins and Screaming Trees.
There’s no advertising at the moment but no doubt they’ll be some very soon - let’s hope it’s text ads on the screen and not audio ads as part of the stream, one of things that puts me off other streamed suggestion music players.
