Personal Radio

I've had a couple of people point me at Pandora at this point. I'm going to be giving it a try, so I thought I'd give you guys a preview. Kyla, you in particular, with the poor radio choices in New Haven and spending a lot of time online anyway, might check it out. Basically this is a piece of software that helps you locate songs and artists that are similar to what you like, based on something they call the Music Genome Project:

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.

Based on your limited input (for example, I chose "Allison Krauss" to start), it builds a custom radio station for you that plays music according to your taste and continued input as you listen. It's like your radio monitoring every time you change stations and trying to do a better job. Way cool. Check it out.