Ooooooh what does that do?!

While digging around for music to code by this weekend I stumbled back upon an old favorite. I love when you discover something on the internet. Whats even more fun is when you RE-discover it. I loved playing around with Pandora back in my datacenter days. Nothing could cure the mind numbing mainframe jobcard writing better than discovering new music.

Well I fired it up again this weekend and had a blast. I quickly put together a good trance / upbeat station merging a few of my favorite bands and settled in. Pandora’s really neat in the way it works. It takes songs or artists you like and based on the music genome project creates a playlist that fits the similar characteristics of the music style you choose. For example I could put in “They Might Be Giants” and I may get a couple of great TMBG tunes but I also get some Eels tunes or something by Chin Up, Chin Up. I can give it feedback like telling it what I like and what I don’t like. The interface is really slick and I never run out of music to listen to. It’s great because it runs in flash it’s platform independant. You can “mininmize” it into a small managable window.

Overall this is a really great way to discover new music and bands you may not have heard. And because it’s the music genome project it does a pretty good job of matching your tastes. It even has some text that goes along with each track explaining how that band or song fits in with your original choice. Give it a spin, you won’t be disappointed.