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StumbleAudio: Find music you've never heard of but might like
But one thing that Pandora and Last.fm have in common is that most of the music they play comes from major label artists. If you want to find music from independent artists, you might want to check out StumbleAudio. The web service uses a music recommendation image engine much like the other sites. But all of the artists are independent acts, which means they're either unsigned or signed to smaller labels.
If you find an artist you like, you can flip through the tracks on their album and listen to full length audio streams. Or you can click on the links on the side of the page to purchase digital downloads or physical CDs.
StumbleAudio currently features over 120,000 artists and 2 million songs. We found the recommendations were decent, but not exactly spot on. For example, the service claims it was able to find 388 artists that sound like the Allman Brothers. As far as we can tell, it actually found about 5 or 10 southern rock/blues bands, and a few hundred artists that sound nothing at all like the Allman Brothers.
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TylerM said 3:00PM on 7-19-2008
Last.fm is a thousand times better.
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CellKill said 4:22PM on 7-20-2008
I also like TheSixtyOne (www.thesixtyone.com). It's quite the same but adds a bit of a social aspect to it. Also the use of AJAX on the page is probably one of the best I've seen, very minimalist and functional.
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CTW said 9:39PM on 9-01-2008
You could try the Creative Commons netlabel scene, where you will find a mountain of (legally) free music. If you visit my amateurish blog, Catching The Waves, you'll find some album recommendations and links to music sites that are much better than mine. :-)
http://soundthefreetrumpet.typepad.com/
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CTW said 9:39PM on 9-01-2008
You could try the Creative Commons netlabel scene, where you will find a mountain of (legally) free music. If you visit my amateurish blog, Catching The Waves, you'll find some album recommendations and links to music sites that are much better than mine. :-)
http://soundthefreetrumpet.typepad.com/
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