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   31 August 2005, early evening

This site is amazing. You tell it the names of bands you like and it picks songs you'll like, and then plays them for you. It seems to do a really good job of picking music. This link was found via Award Tour.

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Comments

  1. Nice!

    by Robert on August 31 2005, 8:17 pm   #

  2. I don’t know what artists/songs you were entering, but I can’t even rationalize how it was choosing songs for me. Either their catalogue is not as voluminous for some genres, or they’re really trying to expand your horizons.

    by rishi on August 31 2005, 11:56 pm   #

  3. There’s usually a short description of the criteria it used to suggest each song.

    by Robert on September 1 2005, 12:06 am   #

  4. I did it. It was pretty good but I wish I had realized that you can only skip so many songs in an hour, because if you list Tool it plays all this shitty metal that is no good.

    by Ben on September 1 2005, 1:50 am   #

  5. The song descriptions were inarguable, but I do not think the criteria used was sufficient given the songs or artists I had tried.

    My favourite description had to be “repetitive song structure”. What songs don’t have a repetitive structure?

    Personally, I think Audioscrobbler (now Last.FM) does a better job.

    by rishi on September 1 2005, 11:49 am   #

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