Streaming Music

Just goes to show how vast and amazing is the internet. I spend my life staring at a web browser but i have never heard of these features.

I gave Pandora a whirl. It was both interesting and frustrating.

I listen to music but am completely ignorant when it comes to musical terminology. The librarian in me was fascinated by the "subject headings" they assigned to the kind of music that i liked, even though it was like reading another language.

However, I couldnt help but feel that the connections it was making between songs and artists were failing someone. It reminded me of the same way Novelist fails to match books. It compares books by plot descriptors which in many cases has nothing to do with why someone likes a particular book. The same goes for music, sometimes a band just has "it" and another band might sound like them...but they just don't have "it".

I do think this service is superior to Novelist in the sense that it is dynamic and takes feedback from the listener and can compare lists created by other users.

I could see how tools like this could be helpful for someone just getting into a "genre" of music and looking for some direction.

I sure wish you could Fast Forward a song. I wish there were more soundtrack songs included.

A fun exercise.