Pandora internet radio reads your mind... kinda.

[zz_tophat]

http://www.pandora.com

It's an internet radio station with an interesting concept behind it, you tell it your favorite band (and maybe a few more), then using the magical voodoo power of computers it plays songs that you like. When a song comes on you can choose if you like it or not to further refine your music list.

I have been listening to it for 2 days now and as I thumbs up and thumbs down things it has gotten closers and closer to looking like my own mp3 playlist. So as far playing what I already have goes, it does that very well.

What I like about it is that every now and then it plays something I didn't know and find that I like.

Naturally all the new songs it plays that I like get added to my mp3 list.


Pros: Finds music you like

Cons: Sometimes plays things you don't, you can only skip songs so many times per hour (you can get around this by just refreshing the page to skip songs your don't want to hear)

EDIT:

Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S

That also sucks.

[Ad Bot]

[General Omega]

Old and stupid. I prefer to listen to specific stuff.

[Kerog]

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

oh wow. us only.
also i'd rather listen to my mp3 and my pc thank you very much

[Netwars4]

I usually don't pay attention to it enough for it to have accurate feedback.
If you leave it alone for long enough it always ends up with Nirvana, for me at least.

[tails]

Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S

[zz_tophat]

I usually don't pay attention to it enough for it to have accurate feedback.
If you leave it alone for long enough it always ends up with Nirvana, for me at least.

I used to see an odd amount of eminem.

[Kerog]

Dear Pandora Visitor,

We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S

i beat you :o

[Shad0wyone]

Hidden advertising or coincidence?

[zz_tophat]

Hidden advertising or coincidence?

There are adds every now and then but they are so short I forgot to mention them, you can also skip them by refreshing the page.

[Sockton]

holy loving stuff

cool

[TheWorm]

+5 respect for having Bohren & Der Club of Gore and STS9, -7 respect for not having any of the other bands I wanted to find similar music to (9dw, 45, Food for Animals, Mouse on the Keys, Byzar, Artofficial, Optimus Rhyme).
It's an interesting site and its recommendations for the ones it actually did find were pretty accurate, but it couldn't detect any of the obscure stuff, and that's the stuff it's hard to find similar music to without help. The website was posted a long time ago, and the recommendations were pretty bad back then, so at least it has improved, but I still wouldn't see myself using it.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

Damn, never knew I'd like Blink 182...

This is going to the top of my bookmarks list.