I don’t know how your work environment is, but where I work all the engineers spend their entire days with their headphones glued to their heads listening to music. Each one of us must own a couple of thousands music files (all legal copies, I can assure you) in our laptops, and since we all share our collections through the office, one could say that we have a pretty decent online selection of music for all genres and tastes. Still, there are times when you yearn for something new… what to do?
During these times of despair (hehehe) there is nothing better than an intelligent sistem for music recommendation, those sites that use funky algorythms to recommend songs and artists based off your online historical data and listening habits. The list below represents my own recommendations for those who would like to experiment with this type of system.
Musicovery: http://www.musicovery.com/
I got this tip via this post. I found the recommendations fairly good, mas the visual display system steals the show in my oppinion!
Pandora: http://pandora.com
The best of the all! Period!
Last.FM: http://www.last.fm
One of the very first of the bunch, with a recommendation system based off the social network model, with lots of statistical information about your weekly, monthly, etc listening habits.
Radio Paradise: http://www.radioparadise.com/
Ok, Radio Paradise is not a recommendation system but an online radio station… but the variety of music they play is amazing!
SomaFM: http://somafm.com
Yet another online radio selection, with theme-based selections.
As you all can see, every day is a new musical adventure. 
Yeah, pandora was great while it lasted… but they shut down access from Europe a while ago…
except for that whole Flash thing…
Hey Mårten, that really sucks! :/
Hi Kelly, well, I was refering to the recommendation system and not the web site…
Og
Thanks for showing Musicovery. I always had problems getting music for myself, no services helped either. so I pretty much stopped listening except for radio. This one’s working so far though.
I’ve been using LastFM for 2 years but i wasn’t good enough for me. I’ve met with SomaFM via your blog entry. It is better that LastFM.
Hey Og,
Keep opensourcing…
A friend of mine just discovered pandora and I was thinking what to recommend and here you just wrote something that I can show her. Cool. Just tried musicovery and it is way cool. I had tried last.fm and its ok by comparison. The best part is that I can play both on my xo-1
Nice list indeed.
Musicovery is the most refreshing site…
Excellent list you have there!
I would like to add http://www.polybonk.com to this great list of recommendations. I believe it was just recently launched and from what I understand they offer both flac and mp3 versions of each track. I stumbled upon this awesome music site the other day, they also offer a pretty cool subscription service as well.
it doesn’t actually have any streaming capabilities but if it’s just pure recommendations you looking for try
http://returnr.com
Today ı’ve found a new online music sharing site (also it is similat to LastFm), this site is known as LibreFM.
http://alpha.libre.fm