Nothing new under the sun, right?
Unless it is new to you (or in this case me.)
I was chatting with my sister this morning. I mentioned that I had found some new music recently. I have been on a quest lately to try to find some new music, break out of the rut of listening to the same old thing. Don't get me wrong I love about 95% of the songs I own. However, it gets tiresome some times to have to listen to the same stuff over and over.
My new additions to the collection in the last few months include:
She Wants Revenge : She Wants Revenge
Placebo : Meds
Editors : The Back room
We are scientists : With Love & Squalor
I for some reason am enjoying the sort of angsty electronica/techno-like British bands lately.
Anyway, using Napster primarily as my means of acquiring digital music they have their "Recommendations" section. I that is how I got to the 'Editors' and they lead me to 'We are scientists'.
However, it is not very effective to keep flipping back and forth between the recommended bands.
Back to my conversation with Rachel. She mentioned that there was this 'new' streaming audio site, 'pandora something'. A quick Google search later and I am all signed up.
It is interesting it is called
'Pandora Internet Radio' part of the 'Music Genome Project'. You search for the band or song that you like and magically it pulls in some streaming audio for you. Starting with the song or band you searched for, then it starts playing other tracks from other bands that are related. You can tell it whether you like the track or not. It apparently tries to learn your taste in music.
Interesting huh?
I was trying it out for free and decided that I like it enough to give them my email address and become a member of Pandora. They offer a subscription service. I don't know if I like it that much, yet. But it makes picking what to listen to much easier.
There was an add for this little device (
Squeezebox) from '
Slim Devices' that caught my eye. It is a internet radio player, basically. It has wi-fi and an ethernet jack, so plug it in and listen to music off the net. Also looks like you can setup some software on your pc and stream audio from your private collection to the device.
And more interesting, Slim Devices was just purchased by
Logitech. One of my favorite companies. I have been an avid Logitech fan for well, forever basically. I do have to admit I am using a
Microsoft keyboard here at the house. But only because it was cheaper and had a slightly more natural layout of the keys. And well I am cheap. But I still have Logitech everywhere else, so not a traitor of the brand.
Laterz
