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cosmosuave · Post by **cosmosuave** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:50 am

Hey a friend from work hooked me up with this streaming audio site...
>> http://www.pandora.com
>>
>> It is actually quite good it uses A.I. to
>> program
>> your personal station... First you enter in the artists you like then it
>> will play those artists and ones comparable.. If you do not like the
>> mystery artists you can choose not to play them... All my artists were
>> found and it is free... Check it out good time waster when at work or
>> home... So far been hearing some cool stuff that I would never of heard of before...

Here is are the parameters they use to appeal to your tastes...

house roots
four-on-the-floor beats
disco influences
rock influences
use of modal harmonies
dry snare
a tight kick sound
a synth bass riff
a busy bass line
synth riffs
a highly synthetic sonority
trippy soundscapes
prevalent use of groove

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:02 am

The adbots are getting wiley.

cosmosuave · Post by **cosmosuave** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:07 am

Tone Deft wrote:The adbots are getting wiley.

Sorry not meant to be spam.. I usually don't buy into this stuff but I have heard a lot of good music on here that I most likely will purchase...

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:09 am

not at all, looks like a cool site, I'll try it tomorrow when I get back to work.

Dunno though, Cowboy Troy's on the main page...

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:49 am

Bloody brilliant!

As an experiment I tried inputting some mid to late 70's syncopated funk in there. So I tried it out by adding:

Kool and the Gang
Cameo
Donald Byrd
Carl Carlton
The system gave me back:

Controversy by Prince (never heard it before - damn funky!)
Take my Heart by Kool and the Gang
Bad Mamma Jamma by Carl Carlton
Golden Years by Loose Ends (I haven't heard it in years... Not too bad!)
How Many Times by Brother Beyond (utter shit - gave it the thumbs down)
Quiet Afternoon by Stanley Clarke (very smooth, nice - I never heard of him before).

So, after only five songs, I've already found two great songs I had never heard before, and one artist I'll probably check out some time.

Utter genius site Brian!!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:18 am

bump. This site is cool, and it works!!

glu · Post by **glu** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:32 am

M. Bréqs wrote:Bloody brilliant!

couldn't have said it better.

Thanks for posting this cosmosuave. The fam is going to enjoy this.

cosmosuave · Post by **cosmosuave** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:40 am

Here is my username so you cna check out my stations... bstone9 It was bstone but there must be 8 other bstone's... Post your usernames so I can check as well..

bug nasty · Post by **bug nasty** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:02 am

Nice site! Ive been on here for Like 4 hours straight.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:18 am

OMFG, Nasty that's a funny pic!

I just started with TOSCA and have been grooving to this. I e-mailed the wife, she started in on TORI AMOS and kept paging me that the site kept playing other stuff she owned.

groovy.

simpleton · Post by **simpleton** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:07 am

It sucks! it won't play Johnny Guitar Watson's A Real Mother for Ya

debu · Post by **debu** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:37 am

How about Pandora + last fm

http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/

or a friend of mines site (music and vid) with an imo better algorithm but not the great interface like Pandora. It's in beta
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:39 am

simpleton wrote:It sucks! it won't play Johnny Guitar Watson's A Real Mother for Ya

Unfortunately, they can only play the stuff they have a licence for. Besides, if you want to hear a specific song, to check out beatport or itunes. If you want stuff that you haven't heard of before, pandora's the source!!!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:41 am

debu wrote:How about Pandora + last fm http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/

or a friend of mines site (music and vid) with an imo better algorithm. It's in beta
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/

last fm never worked for me, it sat in the system tray, I could listen but all the options were greyed out, couldn't SCROB (whatever that meant), skip tunes or change the vibe.

debu · Post by **debu** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:55 am

Tone Deft wrote:
debu wrote:How about Pandora + last fm http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/

or a friend of mines site (music and vid) with an imo better algorithm. It's in beta
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/
last fm never worked for me, it sat in the system tray, I could listen but all the options were greyed out, couldn't SCROB (whatever that meant), skip tunes or change the vibe.

Scrobbed just meant it'd take the music that you played in your player send it to the lastfm site and give you statistics and recommendations based on what you were listening to. It didn't work well for me either, but I've heard it's improved.

I just used the lastfm site to type in some old obscure jazz, funk, classical stuff and see what it'd come up with. I got better recommends with it than Pandora but the player blows.