Looking for new music?

nadine · Post by **nadine** » June 26th, 2006, 6:24 pm

I know I occasionally get stuck in a music rut.. but this is a great music site from which I've found more new music, yay!
http://pandora.com/

PS: found this from Stumble. (stumbleupon.com)

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » June 26th, 2006, 11:11 pm

I second this. Pandora's a really cool "hey, aren't technology neat!" kinda site.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » June 26th, 2006, 11:31 pm

i give pandora an artist that i like and half the songs they recommend are from the same artist and I click "yes, that is good you robotic monster" and hope the next song won't be garbage.

but it is! it's Garbage!

actually it's not, it's Nada Surf.

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » June 27th, 2006, 12:29 am

I'm with Arthur. I don't think of myself as very avant, but Pandora doesn't do a very good job of matching the bands I give it, except with themselves.

As a conflicted Luddite, I feel this proves that machines can never be taught to listen to music intelligently, but I'm probably just in denial.

valetoile · Post by **valetoile** » June 27th, 2006, 12:46 am

you can also set up individual song stations. though the matching paradigm seems very, hm superficial? If you can divorce yourself from the actual content and meaning, and do the aural equivalent of blurring your eyes, the song DO match. But the matches don't really take into account context or style or meaning or emotion.

valetoile · Post by **valetoile** » June 27th, 2006, 12:46 am

But if you like Rasputina, the Rasputina station is awesome. I liked every band it popped up.

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » June 27th, 2006, 1:09 am

valetoile wrote:But the matches don't really take into account context or style or meaning or emotion.

Yeah, exactly. I can hear WHY the machine thinks that some Zappa-influenced fart-rock band sounds like Godpseed You Black Emperor . . . but it's wrong.