www.pandora.com
My buddy hipped me to this site and I have been happy ever since. This site is a scientific experiment with music and music exposure. As a scientist by day....this intrigues me. I love genetics and this site tries to break music down into genes. It's hard to describe this to you, but it's very avant-garde! The human body is completely made up from 48 chromosomes. Every strange facet about your mind and body is pre-programmed into these chromosomes. Chromosomes are comprised of genes. 4 different amino acids groups for humans, in some combination, creates everything about you. Pandora uses this as a metaphor in their dissection of music. They break every song down into so many parts that they can group songs you like based on the different styles of everything. Making some sort of lifeform from the pieces of music that drive you. Be specific though. If you just list an artist, this program adds every style in every part of every song of that person into your mix. Try to pick just songs you like and try to think of other songs you like that sound like that song. Or what you like about it. Or add an artist if you really like ALL of their stuff. Pick any artist you like. Pick a song you really like. Pick and album you really like. It starts pulling from the way they have examined the songs. They have dissected them in every which way. The first shuffle I saw better than the iPod because it plays music I don't own. But they link to iTunes so they got it hooked up. Please get iTunes off of my site if you do not have it yet. There is a tab for "a million songs..." on the right hand side of my webpage. Pandora is free if you can deal with their amazon ad in the corner of the screen (I can). It also saves your stations and you can access them from any PC. This site is awesome. If I am on the net, I am using this as my player. You can type in any songs that have been stuck in your head, at any point, and have this service mix up you request in ways you never thought, and like it. It works best if you rate the songs it plays because it will not play them much again if you diss it. If you say you like it, it knows and proceeds. It works off of you, SO USE IT!
5 out of 5 thumbs.