My OperaUpdate on Last.fm
Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:52:45 PM
I practised what I preached and tried to get more out of Last.fm. Recommended music is fine, but sometimes I listen to some artists that bring some artists to the list I don't like that much. It's possible to dismiss them, so it's not that bad. I subscribed to some music related groups and that seems to be good way to get some interesting recommendations. Amarok group is nice, but that brings very broad range of recommendations. So I added progressive rock and progressive metal group.
Listening to group radios (that are generated from music that people in group listen to) was interesting experience. Bit random music, but more good stuff than bad. Seems like there's much more good stuff if you listen for a while.
But there's even better solution, global tag radio. That means that it plays music that people have tagged with certain tag. I'm not sure where to find more of those yet, I just copied one from another user. There's some in Amarok too, but heavy metal radio wasn't so good. Progressive rock radio works though, there's some metal in the mix, but it doesn't really matter. I have not yet heard so broad range of progressive rock anywhere. Most Internet radios don't have so large selection of music when there's random mix playing (at least when I'm awake, most stations that I have found are in USA).
Seems like I will be listening to much more Last.fm in the future.
PS: I found the tag radios, they were in plain sight all the time.
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