Sorry if this suits better in the technoligaliced section.....but i think here more people are going to see it....

 

 

this is a site similar to last.fm with one difference:

 

You can create your own radio stations.....but when you search for an artist/song the songs/stations you get are from similar artists.....

 

on last.fm it is usually chosen from what other people with a similar taste listen to...

 

 

 

so I searched for "Radiohead" and it first found a song for me by radiohead themselves called "Gagging order".......now I'm listening to "Can't keep running" by Josh Holmes....should also be similar to Radiohead....

 

they also advertise bands that are not that famous...

 

I became aware of this site by a german Computer magazin and they compared those things like last.fm, yahoo music....etc.....with each other.....and came to the conclusion that this is the best one....

 

so check it out if you want to:)

 

 

(sorry if my english in this post is bad somehow......)

 

 

http://www.pandora.com/

yeah, it is a great site to discover some new music!

 

actually, i rarely listen to that radio, because i have another sources for new music, but i highly recommend this Pandora, too

well.....to be honest...I also don't listen a lot to web radios.....but I think it's a good thing for people who do....

 

 

and i already found some good artists on last.fm as well....

if you want to find some good music, check the AtEaseWeb's Music section. it is my only source, basically

AtEase? Isn't this the radiohead forum thing?

yes, it is. but their Music forum is much much more than only "a music forum on a fansite"...

 

people there really are music specialists...from jazz and blues to pop and hip-hop. easily the best "world of music" section on a forum i've ever seen

 

to everyone: even if you ignore/hate Radiohead, you should check the "music" section, because it's decent

Ah that's cool.......I'm definitely going to check it out......can you maybe give me a link for it?:)

 

 

Btw.......obviously you know this pandora site..hehe.....is it necessary to create an account there?...I mean you need an US zip code....

yeah, sure :)

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showforum=10

 

i'd recommend to start somewhere here probably:

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=234984247

or here:

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=234979991

Oh thanks a lot Nik:)

 

 

Now I've got an idea....

Pandora to cut off UK listeners

 

 

British fans of the Pandora net radio service will be cut off on 15 January.

 

Pandora said it was being forced to stop streaming music to British users of the service thanks to an unresolved royalty row.

 

The argument hinges on the rates Pandora pays to UK music rights groups to stream music to British users.

 

In an e-mail sent to UK listeners, Pandora founder Tim Westergren said he was "very, very sorry" for the abrupt end to the service.

Switch off

 

In the US net radio services are licensed under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but any company wishing to stream music overseas has to negotiate deals on a nation by nation basis.

 

In May 2007, Pandora cut off all its listeners who were not based in the US but kept streaming music to UK users while negotiations over a licensing deal for Britain continued.

 

At that time Pandora began tracking users via the unique net address their computer is using which can be used to reveal the geographical location of that machine.

 

In the e-mail sent to all those reaching Pandora via a UK net address, Mr Westergren said efforts to negotiate an "economically workable license fee" had proved "impossible".

 

The rates demanded per track by UK licensing authorities were too high to support, he wrote.

 

Wrote Mr Westergren: "We have been told to sign these totally unworkable license rates or switch off, non-negotiable...so that is what we are doing."

 

He added: "We're going to keep fighting for a fair and workable rate structure that will allow us to bring Pandora back to you."

 

Pandora works by building personal radio stations for users based around their individual musical tastes.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7178699.stm

 

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