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drunkennewfiemidget
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posted February 01, 2006 08:50
Someone a little while back posted a link to Pandora. http://www.pandora.com/. A site that takes the music you like, checks its database against their database of the music's traits, and then provides you with more music it thinks you would like based on that selection.
Has anyone else found Pandora to be particularly awesome?
For me, it played some stuff that was off-the-wall-complete-and-utter-garbage, but for the most part, it's shown me bands I probably would never even known existed:
- Symphorce
- Pressure 4-5
- Stereomud
- Chevelle
- Fireball Ministry
It also reminded me of some particularly good old stuff I'd forgotten about:
- Poison
- Motorhead
The only issue I have with Pandora thus far is that its flash-only (while its beautiful because its multi-platform) is a total system resource hog. It eats like.. 40% of my CPU and 15% of RAM. I don't know if this is a normal part of flash in general, but it's enough to keep me from listening to pandora *too* often.
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TheMoMan
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posted February 01, 2006 10:14
DNF____________________________Oh that Pandora, I was thinking along the line of opening a can of worms or when we left the door ajar on the biology refridgerator, and the frogs thawed out and started jumping around.
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niniel
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posted February 01, 2006 14:25
Heh, funny just today I found out about that same site... It surely had some great songs I had never heard before... Sadly my connection is so poor that streaming isn't a very nice experience =/
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shriver
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posted February 01, 2006 18:50
I loved it when I first heard of it, I still think it's awesome. I completely agree about it playing some amazing music I had never heard of/forgotten about. The fact that it's flash kills it for me, though. Flash is pretty hairy on my computer, sometimes crashing the browser, and half the time sound doesn't work. I've been to listening to last.fm radio recently (www.last.fm). It's similar, except that where Pandora tags music for specific qualities and chooses by that, last.fm just plays music that people with similar tastes enjoy. Pandora's definitely got a leg up on last.fm in that respect.
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MandysRad
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posted February 02, 2006 14:55
Omigod!
New favorite site. They even have suggestions based on my "King Missile" entry!
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