[calimoro78]

Pandora, Pandora, Pandora. No other service for me worked to reveal new songs and artists I did not know about that nailed my taste. But Pandora relies on manual tagging by music experts. Fantastic, but probably not very scalable.

[underlipton]

Grooveshark. Pandora was miss-or-ding-the-side-of for me. Grooveshark always seemed to grab me songs that I NEVER would have discovered on my own, but that resonated with me somehow. It was also a lot easier to find particular versions of songs, or indie music (particularly before Soundcloud became popular). The benefits of not having to kowtow to music industry IP BS (until it was destroyed by it).

[bena]

I was about to say that I've been pretty ok with Pandora so far. My wife thinks I "use it weird" as I mainly listen to the Shuffle station and have mostly various artists in my collection. Whereas she has styles and categories. And that's mostly because I don't want to listen to "Mid-90's Grunge", I want Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc.

However, even in the various artist stations, they do play artists "similar to" as well. Which is how I started listening to stuff like Murder By Death, Eilen Jewell, Bakar, Black Pumas, and others.

[creeble]

Indeed. The Music Genome Project never got beyond ~250k songs IIRC.

[hoorayimhelping]

last.fm found me some of my favorite bands of the last 15 years.

[nox101]

A problem I had with pandora is I'd say I don't like track X so it would play other mixes of track X.

[pragmatick]

Not available where I live.