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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 02:46 AM
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Truly excellent music site: Pandora.com
Pandora.com

Their intro:

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, (http://pandora.com/mgp.shtml) our friends would ask:

Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.

Type in a song and they build a music station for you. Its very nice.
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dubeskin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 02:50 AM
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1. Wow! Cool site!
Thanks so much. Now I can easily find good music! Did you create that site?
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 02:52 AM
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3. no. i read about it in the newspaper. I am listening to scottish country
music, silly wizard and the like. I could never find it in the usa until now. I am one happy camper. :)
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dubeskin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 03:26 AM
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4. Also, cute dog!
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 03:47 AM
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5. My little Tippy. The love of my life. :)
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 02:51 AM
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2. I've been hanging around that site ever since they were interviewed
on Air America.

It's helped me find numerous new bands that I enjoy :)
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 04:35 AM
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6. Yet another reason why I could never live without this site.
This has to be one of the coolest things I've encountered concerning music since I discovered Spinner radio back in 2001. This is even better though, because you have no freaking clue what you are going to come up with. All expectations are completely null and void and there is so much you can discover here.

Thanks for posting this at just the right time for me to catch it. :yourock:

And my wife is grooving to it with me also. :)
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 05:30 AM
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7. Wow, that's pretty cool
My tastes are pretty obscure - Old Time and Irish. Typed in New Lost City Ramblers - no problem.

I love the Guide Us Button - I didn't like the next song, so they promised never to play it again. I really didn't mean to get the guy banned.

I'll have to try Silly Wizard later - another great group by the way.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 05:56 AM
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8. That is one very cool site !
The beauty of it is that by naming tracks you like they auto suggest similar stuff of which you may never have been aware and as such had no previous means of searching. I keyed in Soldier's Joy and then Bonaparte's Retreat - as you do.

Only one problem . It's USA only and you need a US zipcode to register. They've got the usual fairy tale about not having permission to stream into other countries yet. I must just dream that I listen to USA radio staions in that exact way.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 08:34 AM
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9. I don't normally advocate
cheating but this site is awesome.

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp


You will love it. You can even influence it's choice by voting selections up & down. It seems to make a difference what direction they go in to pick things for you.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 10:50 AM
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10. Hi there !
Inevitable we'd look for the same music I guess. The thought of bluffing a US zipcode had already occured me. In the meanwhile I've emailed them suggesting they get their finger out
and stream into the UK before they lose anymore business to similar sites that already do so.

Hope you're well. :)
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 12:23 PM
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11. Your Link Goes to the US Postal Office
???
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:28 AM
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15. I don't think you want to know about the legalese
behind international copyright permissioning. Trust me. I work with that for photos (I am a photo editor), and can imagine it's much more tangled with music, as more hands are in the pie.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 12:24 PM
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12. Best. Best. Best - Internet Radio Site - RadioParadise.com
Listener supported, awsome website - check it out

http://www.radioparadise.com/
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 04:35 PM
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13. Has this been moved into Politics
in an effort to stop anyone finding it or is there something about music which is political ?
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-18-06 11:12 PM
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14. I don't know. They just moved it.
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