It’s been about a year that I have been using Audioscrobbler, but not until yesterday did I download the radio software and give it a spin.
Of the music returned when I searched for Fiest, it is easy to see patterns of listening between my own music collection and the recommendations made by the software. While none of the artists from this paricular seach were foreign to me, it lends credit to the sophistication of the tagging and comparison software.
I then tried an arbitrary search for the term Mutant (wondering what comparison to Z Records Mutant Disco it would give) and was given a feed of chemical sounding New York influcenced sub-electronica that while completely foreign to me, was very consistant to what I would expect mutant to sound like.
There are tools that allow you to recommend tracks to friends and ‘love’ or ‘ban’ songs, but there are no real ways to integrate what your immediate friends are listening to and tagging with what you are digging up. Hopefully they make transfer that way easier moving forward, but as for digging similar artists, I have personally found this one to be way better than Pandora ever was when it was free. Variables Last.FM account
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