What’s It All About?
What’s In It For You?
Create a radio station that only plays the music you like. Learn about new artists and performers by seeing what others add to their play lists. You can even embed widgets for these stations on your MySpace and Facebook accounts, or on your blog. Anyone who loves music and makes it part of their daily lives will love these sites.
Try It Out!
1. Set up a user account with one of the Music Sites listed below. Customize a radio station for your favorite artist or music genre.
2. Post your thoughts about streaming music sites in your blog.
Sites:
Pandora was created by a group of musicians and music lovers who are collectively knows as The Music Genome Project. Enter the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project find songs with musical similarities to your choice based on 400 attributes,
including tonality, harmonies, rhythm, etc. You can create as many “stations” as you want. As you listen to songs, give the “thumbs-up” or “thumbs-down” to refine the station to your taste. Bookmark artists or songs to remember them later.
Finetune has the
standard “radio station” feature and also allows users to create playlists of specific songs. The minimum playlist is 45 songs and you can have up to three songs per artist. FineTune promotes this feature by noting that with custom playlists, you can make sure you’re only listening to songs you want.
Last.fm has a strong social aspect and users are encouraged to tag songs and search other user’s tags to find similar songs and generas. Share your music profile with your friends by using the “scrobble” application which generates a music profile that you can share with friends.
MOG is all about a music community. Users create blog-like profile pages called “Mogs”. You build your Mog around songs you’re listening too and artists you like. User’s can browse Mogs and comment, or suggest other music you might like.
Sno-Isle Libraries Streaming Music With SIL streaming music you can: Listen to tracks online, create a play lists of favorites, and play themed play lists for guided exploration.
More To Explore
Check out these sites for more music options:
Or Google search for your favorite radio station and see if they have live streaming music!
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Filed under: Pandora and Streaming Music | Tagged: Pandora, streaming music
I have been promoting the Sno-Isle streaming music from the day it came out. Once people find this they are very impressed. I love to workout at home on the exercise bike after setting up tunes I know will carry me through. The classical music library has clips of things that were used in my undergrad music studies eons ago, but they don’t go out of style. The world music is dynamite!
A heads up about MOG - it can be kind of problematic, and I notice this weekend it is having some problems.
Don’t give up on it though - it’s a lot of fun to explore and read about what people are listening to. It can be a great place to discover new music, too!
Sno-Isle has a free classical music download promotion and I would like to add it as a new page element to my blog. I have downloaded it to windows media player and then tried to copy and paste it into “add a page element” HTML/java script. it is not working the way I would expect - The page element just shows up on my blog page as script - may I use the Sno-Isle promotion download? or am I not adding it properly to my blog?
I couldn’t tell you why that doesn’t work. Some things just don’t work as plugins, try some of your colleagues and see if together you can figure it out. I’m sure it isn’t a permissions thing that Sno-Isle needs to give you, but more likely some kind of incompatibility between the script and blogger.
OK, I’m sitting here working on my blog and listening to my “Johnny Cash radio” courtesy of Pandora, kind of fun… Thanks for introducing me to something new! Ann
Ann create a few radio stations and then listen to the quick mix station, which will put all of your stations together. Very cool.
I have used Yahoo’s Launchcast for years, but am excited about using last.fm now, as it has a widget for my facebook page. I’ve really enjoyed seeing what music my friends are currently listening to!
Pandora works with facebook also, I love it for the same reason you do, it’s just flat out fun to see what kind of music your friends are into!
This week’s assignment was a lot of fun to tinker with, both with the personalized stations and playlists. I wish I could listen to my new radio stations here at my desk!
I can see how easy it would be to get hooked on streaming music. I didn’t have much luck with Pandora in setting up a list… i wanted to set up the list and not listen to every song in the process. I couldn’t find a way to do that — after six songs that I gave the thumbs up to I was told I needed to create a new playlist if I didn’t listen to the songs in a one hour period.
Didn’t matter… I went to try out finetune and found a playlist that was just what I wanted. I dropped the boring songs and repeats, and made my list (which I’m listening to now) of songs from the 80s.
I just tried Pandora. I created several stations, some based on bands, some on genres. This is great - I can listen to all these different styles of music at once with the Quick Mix. (There’s no local radio station that would play this mix!)
Since I love music and have very eclectic tastes, this is really appealing to me. I like the fact that you can suggest an artist you like and it cross references other artists that are similar - so it would be possible to discover something I hadn’t heard before (and would most likely never hear on a Clear Channel station). Being able to link to information about the artist when the song comes on is also a nice feature - a great advantage over conventional radio.
What I found myself wishing for was more full access. I was able to get a sample of some things but not full access. Pandora also limits you if you try to skip through too many tracks in a given hour. I think licensing and making sure copyright holders get compensated will continue to be a struggle in fully realizing the potential of sites like this.
I like the bookmark feature for artists and songs. I could see how this would make buying tracks to add to your iPod/mp3 player so easy. I’m more old school, and usually just rip the track to my player from a cd, but if I ever get the bug to buy downloads, this wouldl be my way of looking for new stuff.