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Goodpeople,

Does any of you use an online music recommendation service? You know, the kind of thing where you rate a whole bunch of artists and/or albums, and it then gives you a list of artists/albums which it thinks you will like? Post about it here, tell us why it's a good service with respect to all the others.

BTW I'm aware that amazon, iTunes and emusic will cobble together a list of "similar artists" based on purchases you have made. I'm more interested in a free service based on one's own personal ratings rather than one's shopping habits.

Je vous remercie a l'avance.

Will watch with interest ! Would love to expand my collection and this sounds like a ripper of a way to do it....

Anything but www.leapinglindertheclashrocks.com.

regards,

REB

If you're an iTunes user the latest version has a brilliant new feature called Genius playlists.

Basically if you're listening to a song and you click the icon it will generate a playlist from your collection of similar songs (based on mood or theme or type of artist) - it works brilliantly if you have a large library.

If you don't have a big one* you can just view the list of recommendations from the iTunes store, of course you don't have to buy anything but it does give a really good selection of similar artists & songs etc. I reckon it's one of the best new things they've added to iTunes in a long time though there are probably cynics who think Apple are spying at your personal library info.

I think the latest ipods actually do it on the fly as well but not older ones.

EDIT: Sorry Pseudo, reading your post more carefully I see you know about iTunes, but oh well, others may be interested.

lastfm is worth a look.

http://www.dailyvault.com/

Check this site out, it may be helpful.

Bump.

I discovered blip.fm on the weekend. Does anyone else out there use this, and do you have anything to say about it, good or bad?

For those not in the know: It works a little like twitter, insofar as one can post short messages which will be directed to folks who follow you. However the messages each include a streamed bit of music. As messages arrive from folks you are following the music gets streamed to you. When one signs up, one supplies a list of artists that one likes, and blip.fm automatically signs you up as followers of users which it deems have similar tastes to you.

I see the potential for good music recommendations here, so I have swallowed my innate hatred of anything resembling a social networking site and joined up. I shall give it a month or so.

Other sites which I have found to be remotely useful include:

rateyourmusic.com - No recommendation engine, but if you look up a particular album it will predict how much it reckons you will like that album, based on ratings you have given for other albums.

lfmseek.com - One enters the name of an artist and it returns a page full of similar artists, based on data from last.fm and availability from emusic.com

Have not tried any of those Pseudo, another is Guvera which Rolling Stone mag is heavily promoting ATM.
https://www.guvera.com

Somehow you sign up to accept advertising from various companies who then recommend and send music to you based on preferences. Or something. I don't really get it, the last thing I need is more spam. But the RS journo said there was quite a good feeling in having Dominos Pizza pay for him to download a Sex Pistols song!

saintal wrote:lastfm is worth a look.

I'd try LastFM also