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neely615
04/15/09

In reply to Discovering Music in 2009: The New Tools
So Emusic didn't make the list of a place to buy music? I don't know how much random stuff I have found there, and until the record label decides they want more money and pull it off Emusic, its normally the cheapest out there. Also for music blogs, what about 'music for robots' and 'neon gold beat company' (formerly goodweatherforairstrickes). If anything, search for some of the old M3 volume compilations/samplers that goodweatherforairstrikes put out. Just my two cents and happy music hunting.
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Adrian Covert
04/15/09

@neely615: This isn't a comprehensive list. Just an idea of types of sites in each category, and the stuff I like to use personally.
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John Herrman
04/15/09

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Writer left out the "Ask Adrian Covert" method. LAME.
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Adrian Covert
04/15/09

@John Herrman: nah, that pompous bastard has terrible taste. it's so 2010.
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MrBlahBlah
04/15/09

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I want to search, but i just don't have the time and effort
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lpranal
04/15/09

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89.3 the Current

Best radio station for discovering new music, ever. Plus, (almost) no commercials!
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ZLevee
04/15/09

@lpranal: Good one. Stream here: [minnesota.publicradio.org]
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Monty
04/15/09

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What, no mention of "The Social" on Zune as a way to discover new music? Shocking.

I actually do get a lot of my new music idea from friends by visiting their homes and listening to their songs. I long for the days before all of the music stations were owned by a handful of companies and different stations actually played different music. What a novel concept that was.
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ZLevee
04/15/09

@Monty: "I long for the days before all of the music stations were owned by a handful of companies and different stations actually played different music." -- mee too.
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OMG! Ponies!
04/15/09

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Zune also has the Channels and it seems to download stuff surreptitiously, only to surprise you in shuffle mode. I've also found that the shuffle algorithm on the Zune works a little better than on the iPod classic, but it might just be me.

I have a ton of George Carlin and every so often, the Zune will throw in a 3 minute Carlin routine.

Speaking of iPod, Leander Kahney did a great article about five years back on the music discovery aspect of iTMS. And I'm surprised you didn't even mention "Genius", even though it just recommends things for purchase - usually with several items already in your library.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: It seems to have gotten better. My Genius recommendations no longer point at things I already have in my library.
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Adrian Covert
04/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: genius doesn't warrant mentioning. i think it kinda sucks.
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MrBlahBlah
04/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: I find the ipod shuffle algorithm to be terrible.
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rimshot515
04/15/09

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but when things are "all about the money" i.e. profit motive, they tend to do better than things not about the money.
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Kaiser-Machead
04/15/09

@rimshot515: Perhaps, but when it comes to the point when you've listened to more ads every few minutes than you have to music, that shit's gotta go.
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ZLevee
04/15/09

@rimshot515: Maybe 15-20 years ago, record labels, though "all about the money", did a good job of weeding out the good from the bad and nurturing the good to be better. But just a few years later in teh latter 1990s, the consolidation of radio with Clearchannel and the consolidation of concert venues under Ticketmaster limited the selction to the point where being "all about the money" meant being all about no options aside from tween stars.
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madog
03/25/09

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Pandora?
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Herman
03/25/09

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It's a free service, that means they can pretty much do whatever they want, right?
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John Herrman
03/25/09

@Herman: Yeah, and we can be sad or disappointed about those choices.
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strider_mt2k
03/25/09

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No problem.

So long, dicks!

I'm content with finding and setting up my own content on my own server, so screw yas.
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rocketbear79: threadkiller
03/25/09

@strider_mt2k: May I ask what software you use (plan to use)? I use Jinzora to autobuild playlists of file addresses for streaming but it can be a bit clunky/buggy at times and I have to have my web server running 24/7 for it to work. Looking for a possible alternative.
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strider_mt2k
03/25/09

@rocketbear79: I haven't even gotten that far yet, but I have a modest home server I've going to leverage more heavily.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/21/09

In reply to We Now Interrupt Pandora Radio For This Brief Message, Every So Often
Overall, this is not a big deal for me, as Pandora is not my primary means of listening to music, but rather my means of dabbling without paying for a subscription or torrenting. If I like a song enough, I'll give it a thumbs up. If I like it enough to listen to regularly, I'll click the link to iTunes or Amazon and pay for it. I hope that Pandora doesn't turn into regular radio (BECAUSE FM RADIO IS STUPID AD-RIDDEN AIRWAVE DIARRHEA), but if it keeps it alive, s'ok.
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ZLevee
01/21/09

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it caught me off guard yesterday but i can cope if it allows the service to stay afloat.
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frankwolftown
01/21/09

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It's been a while since I've used Pandora. I've always preferred Last FM. I hated having to thumbs down all the crappy music I didn't want to listen to. With Last FM it never made me listen to million shitty songs I don't care about.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/21/09

@frankwolftown: If you hate lots and lots of songs, and hate whole genres altogether, most internet radio services will not serve you well.
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StutiCebriones
01/21/09

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I hope I don't share Mr. Krypton's arrogance, but I agree that Slacker's long been better and is now that much moreso.

While I can't argue how popular Pandora is, I've never had a good experience with it: I suggest an artist, it plays a couple of songs by that artist, then it spirals into moronland and starts throwing completely inappropriate music at me based on weird crap it made up about sonic characteristics of the music. I minored in music with a year of theory and can't say I ever heard of the rationalizations Pandora uses for its awful choices.

I can't say Slacker's perfect either. But it shows me the list of bands it thinks are appropriate for an artist-based station and lets me customize to my heart's content. The ads are roughly hourly and amount to a brief ID, akin to the call letter sting you hear on a broadcast radio station at the top of the hour. And the portable means I don't have to have a persistent connection to listen for hours and hours.

So Pandora's got some catching up to do. Let's hope competition makes everything better.
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ZLevee
01/21/09

@StutiCebriones: You know, you can customize a pandora station more than it sounds liek you did. If an artists' sound is too broad you can just put in specific songs, and then as you vote down songs you don't like, or ban artists altogether, and it learns from your choices.
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Monty
01/21/09

In reply to We Now Interrupt Pandora Radio For This Brief Message, Every So Often
Now perhaps they can build it so that, in addition to selecting the type of music you want to listen to, you can select the type of commercials you want to listen to? Then it will be a perfect match.

It is a great service, and whatever they have to do to keep it going sounds good to me.
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