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Paul GoddenMay 18, 2006 by Paul Godden in 'Music, New Website'
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Greatest find of the week. This website will learn from your music tastes. The website is held in conjunction with apple and amazon (not that that should disuade you at all) and delivers the equivalent of 400,000 songs from their database not including world or classical music.

Anyway, it’s a really cool website, allows you to register for free and learns, yes I mean learns, your musical taste, through repetition. For instance, you will create a new radio station within your browser and type in an artist or track that you really like. The channel is created (and you can have up to a hundred of them) and the music streams directly via flash into your browser. This is pretty cool, but what makes the process complete is that it makes a note of what that track actually means. I don’t mean artist, length and other stuff – I mean in genre, beat, tonality, sex of singer and even down to the heaviness of the beats. This information is constantly updated, after every song you listen to. Also you can rate tracks that are played and that’s where the beauty really begins. You can choose to listen to the track, give it a thumbs down (after which it moves on to another calculated track) give it a thumbs up (which is where it makes a note of the content of the track) or choose to skip the track. After 4 or 5 choices of thumbs up or down, you pretty much have a playlist you can listen to all day long.. I mean I made the guys in the office sick of dance music after finding this website within 5 minutes (although I was in heaven!!)

So, very cool free as long as you can put up with adverts (which don’t count for much really after the window is minimised) and you love to listen to music that is tailor made to your senses! Another option is to subscibe, after which all of the adverts will be removed and you can skip and move about as much as you want (another restriction to the free version) Check it out and you so won’t be sorry…

At last an internet radio station tailored to what we want and for free!! Get it while you still can…!!

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