Online music recommendations
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rosemary_greenTwo "online radio" websites I've been enjoying lately:
Radio Britfolk
"Traditional and contemporary folk music of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England." Includes lots of great artists who are relatively unknown in the US. My favorite part is the The Britfolk Billboard, which is a 3 hour block of music. The order of the tracks changes every time you start up the page, and they rotate on and off every few weeks, so you can hear your favorites again.
Pandora Radio
I heard about this a while ago, but just tried this week and am already hooked. You type in a song or artist you like, and it tries to create a "radio station" of songs it thinks you will like based on the attributes of that song. You then tell it whether or not you like the songs as they go by so that it can refine the selections. This is part of the Music Genome Project. I've been quite pleased with the songs it's given me so far (the theme of my station seems to be "lots of harmony singing"!) -- it went from the Watersons to Stan Rogers to sea chanteys to Ralph Stanley and then back to English folk again. Don't know that I would have ever combined them together in one set, but in fact I do like all of them!
Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it!
ETA: Poking around in the documentation for Pandora Radio -- looks like their licensing doesn't allow it to be heard in most countries outside of the US. So that might not be so useful to some of you, sorry... Radio Britfolk at least seems to work internationally -- it comes from the UK and I have had no problems playing it here in the US.
Radio Britfolk
"Traditional and contemporary folk music of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England." Includes lots of great artists who are relatively unknown in the US. My favorite part is the The Britfolk Billboard, which is a 3 hour block of music. The order of the tracks changes every time you start up the page, and they rotate on and off every few weeks, so you can hear your favorites again.
Pandora Radio
I heard about this a while ago, but just tried this week and am already hooked. You type in a song or artist you like, and it tries to create a "radio station" of songs it thinks you will like based on the attributes of that song. You then tell it whether or not you like the songs as they go by so that it can refine the selections. This is part of the Music Genome Project. I've been quite pleased with the songs it's given me so far (the theme of my station seems to be "lots of harmony singing"!) -- it went from the Watersons to Stan Rogers to sea chanteys to Ralph Stanley and then back to English folk again. Don't know that I would have ever combined them together in one set, but in fact I do like all of them!
Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it!
ETA: Poking around in the documentation for Pandora Radio -- looks like their licensing doesn't allow it to be heard in most countries outside of the US. So that might not be so useful to some of you, sorry... Radio Britfolk at least seems to work internationally -- it comes from the UK and I have had no problems playing it here in the US.
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Date: 2007-11-22 08:44 am (UTC)I must give Radio Britfolk a go, thanks!