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Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:37 pm

Same here. Heard a bunch of the ol' ModeSelektor on there yesterday. Bumpedi-bump!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:37 pm

bump

this site is amazing.

that is all.

OvertoneZero · Post by **OvertoneZero** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:47 pm

Hell yes, epic site!

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:51 pm

USA only

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:10 pm

typed in rage against the machine. next song was audioslave...ughhh

i'll forgive it though, as i can see the concept. thanks for the bumps and link

slayer rules. or so my deathmetal friends say. and bam margera. and HE wouldn't lie, right?
god that audioslave crap is still playing. i should skip it...ohh... all grungy stuff i've already heard. hooker with a penis is a good tool song, though. only five skips per hour,per list , huh? this is a pretty cool site, though... i'll try obscure stuff i always wanted to hear, but didn't want to buy, in case it sucked. strange genres will be fun too!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:15 pm

some of my streams have sucked, others are kicking ass.

I just started a Queens of the Stone Age and got Kyuss (of course), Motorhead, Deftones, Arctic Monkeys and some other band I've never heard of.

dru · Post by **dru** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:27 am

It's only for USian's.

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:03 am

There's a widget available for Opera which I used about a year or more ago. Unfortunately it's still US only which makes me wonder, because back then they were looking for german employees to complete their catalog of german bands. *shrug*

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:38 am

last.fm works with a similar concept and is available also outside the us (well, pandora is also available outside the us, but not legally and might be difficult to tune in under certain conditions). Last fm allows you to upload your own stuff as well.

But I have to admit that I was hooked on pandora last year and got some incredible good music. I found one of my now favourite musicians on it: Andrew Bird (from Chicago)

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:13 am

More alternatives (all beta)

www.spool.fm (mediocre sound, allows rew/ff and manual selection of songs, Opera works)

www.musicovery.com (very special GUI, you chose songs by mood and then haggle through a 3D-like tree-structure that connects bands and styles, ok to mediocre sound for free users, premium account needed for better sound, Opera doesn't seem to work)

www.jango.com (ok to good sound, plays songs too slow in IE7, allows manual selection of songs, some problems with Opera, best experience with Firefox)

My current favorite is Jango.

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:13 pm

pepezabala wrote:last.fm works with a similar concept and is available also outside the us (well, pandora is also available outside the us, but not legally and might be difficult to tune in under certain conditions). Last fm allows you to upload your own stuff as well.

But I have to admit that I was hooked on pandora last year and got some incredible good music. I found one of my now favourite musicians on it: Andrew Bird (from Chicago)

[This isn't ad spam; check my join date and post count.]

I tried Pandora for a while and actually SUBSCRIBED (and if you knew how cheap I was you'd plotz.) I have discovered many, many new fantastic artists in the genres of pure electronic, ambient, acoustic guitar, new age, etc.

Occasionally in a station it will throw something in that doesn't exactly match the "genome" of that station, on the theory that it may help you discover something new. You can always thumbs down it and it will fade the song out and go on to the next.

The only complaint I have is that when I play it 8 hours a day it does eventually repeat some tunes. But even then you can flag a tune with "don't play this for a month" rather than a permanent thumbs down.

It's a pity that the performance rights orgs have caused it to be shut down outside the US. Pandora (and indeed almost all net radio) almost got put out of business last year IN the US since the government (thanks to the the RIAA of course) was trying to force a law that would require ALL online radio stations to pay additional licensing fees. Even 17 months retroactively (see savenetradio.org for more)

pixelbox · Post by **pixelbox** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:19 pm

Yeah I love Pandora so much, I sent them an e-mail tellign them how cool I thought they were, and so they sent me a really nice t-shirt!

Anyway, you guys should check out their "Pandora Presents" podcasts. It's like music appreciation 101, and I found it very entertaining and even educational at times.

There are even episodes that feature electronic music as a genre. Can't wait for the new episodes!

evon · Post by **evon** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:01 pm

site not available outside the US..can you beleive this!