Hi, I listen to LastFM a lot and to Pandora from time to time. Stragely my opinion would be the opposite of yours. I find LastFM repeats too much after a while. Also they really overweight period vs. musical characteristics I found Pandora more usefule to discover new stuff. But then again I use LastFM way more than Pandora Could it be that when you use a radio service a lot in the end they all show similar, understandably, limitations ?
Cheers, Mark. EyeRonik1;394436 Wrote: > Hi gang, > > I listen to all of these, and here are my comparisons: > > Pandora - My favorite, but it has some quirks. It has a huge supply of > artists and generally creates a nice station from a suggestion. Here > are the quirks though: > - Limited supply of music per station. Once I get it tuned if I listen > to a station a lot I get a lot of repeats. > - Prioritizes era over similarity. For example, when I seed "Neil > Young" I get a ton of 1970's artists such as Jimi and The Who by > default. This is crazy and wrong - I want music that sounds like Neil > Young, not music on the radio at the time his biggest hits were > popular. He has had about 20 albums since then. This is a major failing > of Pandora and contrary to their story. > - A Jack Johnson seed creates a station filled with improvisational > jazz, even after killing every instance of it. When I want Chick Corea, > I'll create a station for him. > > Slacker - As broad coverage as Pandora, and it creates very different > stations from the same seeds. It doesn't have the era bug and the > variety is broader and I'm listening to Slacker more and more. > The downside - it has audio ads in the stream. They are often mixed to > be louder than the music and it's disturbing. I'd listen more to it if > they just mixed down the volume of the ads. > > Last.FM - I listen occasionally but when I do it's great. I have the > free account so I only listen to the "Recommended" station but it's > usually quite good, better than the Quickmix on Pandora. I scrobble > both iTunes and my iPods, and Squeezecenter so it knows me pretty > well. > > Genius - When I'm listening to iTunes I usually use Genius instead of > Party Shuffle now. It has the same era bug as Pandora - when I select > any classic rock song I only get classic rock suggested, but it's often > much better than that. It's good for a more eclectic mix when using > non-classic rock songs. > > I never got MusicIP to work. > > How do others feel? -- marklings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marklings's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59872 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
