Music recommendation services

[Pseudo]

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.

[Dirko]

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

[Rik E Boy]

Anything but www.leapinglindertheclashrocks.com.

regards,

REB

[zipzap]

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.

[saintal]

lastfm is worth a look.

[kingrooster]

http://www.dailyvault.com/

Check this site out, it may be helpful.

[Pseudo]

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

[zipzap]

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!

[Pidge]

lastfm is worth a look.

I'd try LastFM also