Re: [microsound] Social Networking sites for music

[Simon Hampson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have found last.fm better for recommendations and good links between
tracks.

With both services you will get some mistakes but last.fm tends to be more
'human'. I think that is a sign of their origins - Pandora materialised from
the music genome project whereas last.fm is coming from a social networking
idea.

Last.fm also has 'Audioscobbler', an application that automatically logs
anything you play through Itunes and uploads it to your profile.

Simon.

On 16/7/06 2:25 AM, "Brian Klein" <btk3782@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> i've used pandora, but not last.fm, and i've only used pandora for  listening
> to music; i haven't put any on the site, if that's even  possible. its
> accuracy in matching music genres is ok/acceptable. when  i typed in "pete
> seeger" it gave me a bunch of pretty good folk and  folk/rock artists, mixed
> in with some lame singer/songwriter crap.  results were more mixed when i
> typed in "venetian snares." this  resulted in a variety of electronic music
> ranging from autechre, to  kruder and dorfmeister, to trance, to more minimal
> techno and  microsound type stuff. i didn't think this was a very accurate
> match.  the last time i used it was several months ago, though so  it may have
> been improved by now.
> 
> Simon Hampson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  So uh.. No one responded to
> this. Has anyone used last.fm or pandora?
> 
> Simon.
> (listed as coishii on last.fm)
> 
> 
> On 13/7/06 7:41 AM, "Simon Hampson"  wrote:
> 
>> I'm interested to know what you think about sites such as last.fm or pandora
>> in light of recent discussions about myspace.
>> 
>> I have to run off to work but this seemed like the natural 'next step' in
>> this discussion.
>> 
>> Thanks everyone for your thoughts on these topics and the links to the Wired
>> articles.
>> 
>> 
>> Simon.


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