The End User Case
(Note: Gah, okay, they want you to create an account to listen to this station. I get why, but tarnation, that’s inconvenient. On the other hand, it’s worth signing up for, see below.)
Pandora.com lets you put together a radio station of sorts, based off of songs and artists you designate (at the beginning, or later on), and filled out by Pandora with songs related to what you start with, as figured out by info collected by the Music Genome Project. Sometimes when I listen to the station I created (called The End User Case in a weird fit of work-related agitation a couple of years ago), it’ll veer off into weird prog-jazz territory which I usually don’t care for (usually not a big deal, because I can keep telling it “Sorry, don’t like this, try again” until it gets the hint and moves into other genres), but today it’s been really solid. This is hands down my favorite music service, because it doesn’t base it’s predictions on what other people like, but on how music actually sounds, so I end up discovering lots of new-to-me music that I really dig.
