Check out pandora.com. this is what I wanted to do for a while. Guess I don't need to, or I won't get rich doing it, anyway.

Oh my God. That is infinitely cool.

I love technology, but not as much as you, you see... But I STILL love technology... Always and forever

Always and Forever

GAH!

Your mom goes to college!


/heh

Huh, neat. They are streaming you 128kbps mp3s and the files are trivially easy to grab once they've suggested one to you. I wonder how they are getting away with that?

-Mike

I was playing around with this last month, but I found its suggestions to be pretty poor. It's too bad, I really like the idea.

I told it I like Pink Floyd, so played something from "The Final Cut", I think in a attempt to convince me I don't really like Pink Floyd.

I put in elf power so it first played an elf power song. Then the next song was from Poison which sounds strange but the song it picked had some guitar that sounded similar to the elf power song.

There's a different licensing scheme between users choosing songs and users having songs chosen for them, with the latter, obviously, being cheaper. As to the ease of downloading the songs, I don't think there's any legislation that states how easy it is to get copies of the songs that have been played for you. After all, it's pretty easy to tape off the radio.

This is very cool. Thanks.

Huh. Sometimes it plays a song, citing as a reason that it's got "Major Key Tonality" and other songs because they have "Minor Key Tonality". Now, given that those are really your only two options (I suppose it could have no tonality, but that would be an immensely boring song), how can it be using both as reasons? It'd be like TiVo suggesting things because they're B&W and other things because they're in color. In other words, "everything" is not a useful criterion, even if you specify it as two complementary sets.

Wow... this is fairly interesting. I tried something I thought would be moderately obscure, "The Book I Read" by Talking Heads. It countered with a thoroughly accurate description of the song and countered with ZZ Top "Cheap Sunglasses" and Bob Dylan "Neighborhood Bully". Very interesting choices...

I don't know if this has been mentioned here, but I noticed the 5.1 version of Winamp has something called "MusicMagic Mix" in the media library. It seems to work like Moodlogic did, but appears to be free. It only works on your personal collection and can make purchase suggestions. One thing I found very interesting is if you run it on it's "low variation" setting you get a very accurate playlist that gets very boring after a few songs...