Pandora

If you haven't used it before, Pandora is basically a web site that lets you choose a song or an artist that you like from an insanely large selection, and it will try to play music that matches your taste. It has worked really well for me so far! Try it out:

http://www.pandora.com

Now ain't that a coinkydinky. I read the new Computeractive which has an article about Pandora, then log in and find a thread aboiut Pandora.

There are also a few other sites that do the same, but with varying degress of accuracy. One or two, like Pandora, matched songs based on a computer analysis, whilst others match them based on what other users like.

www.gnoosic.com
www.musicmobs.com
www.last.fm

I've just tried Pandora, and they don't have Arctic Monkeys as an artist.

One thing I like it how it explains the bands' sound, although I wish I could get direct access to those descriptors and tell it what combinations I enjoy/etc, just to see what I can get.

Gonna give this a try, although a lot of the bands I like tend to have completely different descriptors.

I created a playlist using "In The Deep" by Bird York (Kathleen York), being one of the soundtracks for the movie Crash from 2004. I heard some very interesting songs as a result, a lot being really great, but they were so rare I couldn't find anything about them on Amazon or iTunes (one of the reasons why Pandora exists is because the creators want people to buy songs/albums via either of those two sites). Google wasn't very helpful either, just showing a few entries of other people's playlists printed out in HTML.

Definitely not a reason to stop using Pandora, I just found that weird, especially considering that is music I would definitely want to keep on my iPod.

wow this is sweet ...they have remixes and shit..is this a radio signal finder or what is it?