I think this is great. Last.fm is streaming radio that plays music based on what you yourself play on your computer. You can tag your music to help categorize it (e.g. hip hop, post-indie acoustic rock, voodoo, etc.). Then you can tune in to that tag’s radio station. So, if you want, you could listen to songs that people tagged angry or Christian death metal. Or you can create a custom radio stream by entering band names. The player then plays those bands and other related music.
There’s a plugin for your music player to offer your preferences (via what you play). And there’s a download for the streaming radio player (which incidentally shows you song title, band name, album, and album cover so you can run out and buy the song you’re listening to because you don’t have it in your collection, but now gotta have it.)
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Dude.
This rocks so hard I feel like I need to send you a thank you card.
Don’t you love it? There are things I feel like I should listen to, but haven’t yet explored like Dylan or whatever. Now I get that stuff mixed in for me.
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[...] I wrote about last.fm a bit ago, describing it. In essence, last.fm plays songs based on what you play in media player, e.g. iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player). It also allows users to tag songs with words and phrases like southern rock, rapcore, bubblegum pop, angry break up songs… you get the idea. [...]