Being probably one of the few lasts remaining from my kind, I have always find great satisfaction going out to shop for new music at the music store near me. A strange sense of excitement arises as I track and hunt innovative sounds that sometimes send me off giggling with joy.
So - when I found Pandora I was curious. This service is a by-result of the Music Genome Project, a technological and mathematical analysis of the musical qualities within each song - one attribute at a time.
The idea behind Pandora for people to discover new music through a system that studies what they like - so they said. Well I immediately signed-up and started "educating" the Pandora system so to understand my taste. I also got my colleagues and my significant other here to try it out. Trouble was that no matter how hard and how often we all tried we were not able to get the system to "understand", and we kept on ffwding more and more songs that seemed to have no relation to what each of us was looking to hear. It seemed that the more I try the less I succeed. I was finally frustrated and gave up on the service - it was for me a great idea with a poor execution.And then Came FineTune..
Oh, what a joy.
This place does it all: like with Pandora you can browse while listening and searching for new stuff according to many different search options of your choice, and like Pandora FineTune finds related artists and songs and then creates a station for you. But this is where the similarity ends - Finetune's main advantages are its slick, quick and with-lots-of-schick friendly and intuitive flash interface - it is oh so lovely; and its custom-made play-lists.
With FineTune you get to really show off your DJ tendencies: you can create new play-lists and then share them with others!! These lists are completely up to you - with a single click you pick and save any song from your search results and that is immediately added to your new list that can be as diverse or as narrow with its types of music as you decide it would be, while Each list contains at least 45 songs.Thanks to FineTune the hunt for new music has just managed to get even more interesting, and if I would be able to pay-download the songs via a non-itunes music mode it would be then a world made perfect (or at least much much more tolerable).
Check out the ZDNet FineTune gallery here.
2 comments:
FineTune - nice...
My experiences with Pandora have been mostly positive. It's real interesting since I like to listen to Christian contemporary music. My fear with Pandora is that it was going to pick secular similar sounding music. Not so, it picked Christian artists 19 times out of 20. Rarely did I have to give it the thumbs down.
As for finetune. I'll try it when it works in Linux.
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