joanofarctan
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There's personalised & tag radio (I have 'minimal' radio on in the background half the time), a huge wiki, tune previews, album artwork and other bits and bobs at last.fm. There's also a journal facility where you can pontificate to your heart's content with embedded artist/label links.
Different approach to pandora - this tracks what you listen to in your own media player. The music it recommends is pretty alright because it's based on people's listening habits and tagging, so it favours associations captured from user-inputted data over ai algorithms. Those algorithms never come out right, because they ignore the fact that musical associations are complex social phenomena.
Disclaimer: I've just started working there (precisely because it doesn't suck).
Different approach to pandora - this tracks what you listen to in your own media player. The music it recommends is pretty alright because it's based on people's listening habits and tagging, so it favours associations captured from user-inputted data over ai algorithms. Those algorithms never come out right, because they ignore the fact that musical associations are complex social phenomena.
Disclaimer: I've just started working there (precisely because it doesn't suck).