a post at Steve Krause’s blog recaps the differences between two popular music recommendation services: Last.fm and Pandora. Both ask you to enter an artist, and then will play a stream of similar artists, but they have different methods for finding those artists. Last.fm is a social recommender, looking for what other people who like that artist listen to, and Pandora recommends based on musical attributes, the ‘genes’ of an artist catalogued in their Musical Genome Project.
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@ 13:11
Both services are interesting and Last.fm seems to be definitely more “social”. Being used to Pandora and enjoying its no-software-to-download approach, I might stick to it, though. It seems the first tool / software you use in an innovative industry keeps its attraction. You don’t want to learn too many software, services, multiply your downloads, etc, I think.