Check out Pandora
 

At pandora.com you can listen to music that is similar to the music you like. Verrry interesting!

I tried it out, but it had a tendency to repeat the same songs I heard last time when I would start it up again, even after I ranked them, in the same order.

Another potential is last.fm, which while not perfect in what music it has available, it has some good music.

I put in 'Bushes and Briars' and it picked The Carpenters, Fairport Convention, Sandy Dennis, and Frothingay. The last 3 were related since Sandy Dennis was in both groups.

It was interesting because it did list the elements that made up the song I input (chords, use of vocals, etc).

Pandora lets you create your own virtual radio station.

I've been running Pandora and refining a radio station of stuff i can tolerate and even enjoy at times. It does seem to be learning. Radio.com was cool too, but I kind of like Pandora's customization better and the way you can rate the songs with the little thumbs up/thumbs down thing. quick and easy.

If you want, send an email to my username at gmail dot com and I'll share this station with you.

...I had to do SOMETHING about the 80's music they are playing....it's been 2 years....I was getting urges to wear parachute pants to work, and tie bandanas arouns my knees.

I like this site more and more....
and my station keeps improving.....very infrequent that it plays something i actually dislike at this point.

http://broadcaster.pandora.com/t?r=9...32B1AB0F53015&

I adore Pandora. It's unfortunate that you now have to listen to ads, but I get it. It's a free service so I can't complain.

pah, the ads are infrequent, and short....

http://www.pandora.com/#/stations/pl...11250931304860

love pandora. this is my current quikmix... if I did it correctly

Too bad free accounts will be limited to 40 hours a month. http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/arch...t_updat_1.html

worth it, in my opinion....and if you're too cheap....switch to radio dot com for the rest of the month. still, beats the piss out of the alternative for me.

I have the Fire FM extension on Firefox as a menu bar, you can type in an artist and will mix a station based on similar stuff. You can do a lot with favourites on the site too.

I just upgraded my Pandora account. For $36 per year, now I have 192Kbps, it takes five hours to time out, no ads (were the ads all that bad, anyway?). Plus skins, mini-players, etc.

Considering that I listen all day long at work, does $3 a month, basically 10 cents a day, not sound like a good deal to you?

Upgrade. The 192Kbps sound quality is immediately noticable.

i like the idea of having it outside of a browser.

Or you could just, you know, download the music.

not really the same thing. you'd have to have a shit ton of it, and set up some serious random lists to come near the variety. i've been discovering bands i like. The Black Keys.....never heard of them before...but i dig em.