AMosely

For anyone unfamiliar with the music genome project, it is essentially a project to establish a DNA of music - linking all forms, elements, and influences in music to one another.

I recently discovered a free (ad-based) front-end to the project that lets you interface with the database. You give it a starting point and the system starts building a streaming radio station under your guidance.

I've been using it for about a week and as a jazz fan have been very impressed - but have also built rock, alt, and folk stations. Give it a shot if you're a music fan.

http://www.pandora.com/

AzzMan

Upon absolute first look, they didn't have anything to link through Saprogenic or even Eucharist so I tried something mainstream- Opeth. It''s definitely there but I'm wondering of the underground of other genres, be them rock, electronica or even say rap are lacking in variety.

Then again, I can see how they might fail to add every single bnad in the world ever to this program, so IDK, I'll just stick with my 5,000 songs in my winamp playlist for now.

Renagade

Woah, when'd AzzMan get banned?
Ahh well... Wasn't a bit fan of his negativism anyway.

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I've been using Pandora a lot recently as well. It's an excellent tool and a nice fun gadget as well.

AMosely, any Jazz artists you'd suggest?
Right now the only real good album I've found is Michael Lington's 'Stay With Me'.

Thanks,
~Renagade

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CingularDuality

Anyone like Blues? My wife is fanatical about Johnny Lang and I find his music quite enjoyable.

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TacticalGamer TX LAN/BBQ Veteran:

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Pandora is really good at finding new jazz songs that I want to hear, although I can't get it to differentiate between small combos and big bands.

CingularDuality

Just wanted to bump this now that I've used her for a while.

It's great to spend an hour rating songs and then to be able to sit back and enjoy song after song on a radio station that knows just what you want to hear. It's somewhat amazing... (There's a grammatical term that describes the phrase that I just used, but I can't remember it. I like using those types of phrases, anyway...)

Try Pandora. Spend at least two hours with her. You'll find yourself using no other streaming music stations...

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Pandora is a great program even though it hates me

I can't get any genre stations to work properly but I have done well by dumping everything I liked into one station.

This is really a great program if you haven't seen it yet.

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