Thank you for letting me preview your awesome software. Your service - though fundamentally different technology, reminds me a bit like Epitonic in its heyday. Epitonic was always great for "if you like this, you'll like this".. sort of descriptions (invaluable when I was a music journalist). That said I noticed that your breadth didn't necessarily hit the breadth that Epitonic has - bands on small labels and itunes couldn't be found. Perhaps with time I'll be able to find them. Cheers and good luck.

No Jackie Leven!
This man's music is so unknown, which is tragic since he's a great artist. Check out the reviews at AMG, esp. "Creatures of Light and Darkness", "Shining Brother, Shining Sister", "Fairy Tales for Hard Men" and "The Mystery of Love Is Greater than the Mystery of Death". If you'd like I could post some songs somewhere.
rickdog

I'm wondering if the taxonomy of the songs can be enhanced by letting users tag songs with their own characteristics. There's no doubt that you are all experts, but musical tastes are so so individual and I think that the catagories are artificially bounded by your predeterminations. This is all about perception...

I have 1 request. Could you please add David Lanz? He's in the New Age category. Pretty big name in that area...

Thanks!

Thank you for all the work you are doing. I'm loving this product and continue to tell people about it. I find it interesting to explore how my taste in music 'works'. Songs that I loved as a teen and 20 something relate to songs I love now (U2 and Journey - how interesting). New interests bring up very old songs from well before my time.
The ability to check out shared stations is great. I'm loving checking out other people's ideas. Now I'm learning about Ska, getting some fun soul music and learning that I really don't like some styles.
Keep up the good work. I'm excited to see how this evolves.

It's a great service. Let's hope people are willing to pay for it once you go live!

So, is all that information hand editted? Whoa!

I've been hunting for a music-seach facility. And pandora comes close. But I want tags! - like flickr or del.icio.us do... The 'minor-key-intonations' and 'mild rhythmic syncopation' doesnt relly cover *why* I like some music rather than others, whereas instruments used might be better... 'Brass' or 'fiddle' or 'ukulele' would be useful categories for me. So I'd just like to add my voice to the 'we want tags' lobby.
Thanks!
Howard

Hard to believe that you all have the resources to pay actual employees to do the musical classification work! My hat's off to you.

I'm another person on the tagging bandwagon, in the belief that the unwashed masses can generate metadata for you if you set up the right incentives for them to do so. I see that the BBC is playing with letting their listeners tag songs off the airwaves, and also has some ideas about how to aggregate the results:

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/08/reinventing_radio_on_phonetags.shtml
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/how_to_build_on_bubbleup_folksonomies.shtml

Meanwhile, love your service, especially for jazz. I just wish you had a little more content and more finely-tuned criteria for latin and other "world" music. I keep putting in Brazilian artists and, if Pandora knows about them at all, the stations quickly mutate into stadium pop or vaguely latin jazz.

Anyway, thanks, and I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with this!

I just discovered this the other day and I think my 10 free hours are about to end so I guess I'm just gonna have to pony up the funds and becime a *gulp* real member.

So far the channel I have created is amazing and seems to cover the width and breadth of the randomness I like to listen to. One request: What if I add something to one of my "stations" and realize it was a mistake? I cannot easily remove it to fall back to the way the station was just before.

Example: I create a station with a lot of Hindi-fusion artists and add an artist a little more lounge-like. The channel gets a little too "dancey" for me and I'd like to remove that last artist from consideration. How can I do that?

Anyways, thanks for being as impossibly cool as you seem to be. Radio blows. Pandora rules.

I love this service and have my favorite stations playing on my computer (softly) all day while I work. My hat is off to the "geeks" that make this all happen.

I was happy to see the various classifications of music listed and gives me some sense of how things are classified. I long for the day that I can request a type of music - for instance jazz with a Brazilian beat - and get that.

I like the various subtle changes that have occurred since I help test the beta version.

Keep up the wonderful work - while I go back to work while listening to Najee.

VL

just discovered this site and I love it! Set up a station earlier today with only 4 or 5 artists and your selections have been excellent....have been listening all day and haven't heard anything I didn't like. Keep up the good work!!

Fantastic site, I'm considering purchasing a subscription. Will test for a little longer though.

May I ask for Band Name - Cruachan be added? its a fantastic band and would be in the genre of Folk / Rock which I know is a rare genre but a genre none the less :)

Wicked thanks keep it up you lot!

Cruachan is a great band my favourite album has got to be "Folk Lore" their website is - http://www.cruachan.cjb.net/

Thanks for the service you supply :)

Rgds

Lee

Good Service