Thanks for your response. I have never heard of last.fm, so I will now google to find out what it is.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rory Walsh 
>Sent: May 9, 2008 11:32 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Finding good new music
>
>I often find myself wondering aimlessly through masses of myspace pages, 
>every so often something interesting pops up. One does have to take the 
>rough with the smooth however and it's recommended to always keep one 
>finger on the master volume control!! I use last.fm a bit too, with 
>mixed results.
>
>Rory.
>
>
>Michael Gogins wrote:
>> I've found myself at a bit of a loss lately with respect to finding good new music. This partly is thanks to the continuing decline of the CD and of music stores and reviews. I'd love to know:
>> 
>> -- How do YOU find out about good new music?
>> 
>> -- What are some of the NEW musicians or pieces to which you find yourself listening most frequently?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>> 
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Any Csounder's on last.fm let's be friends...  I'm idealord on last.fm...

http://www.last.fm/user/idealord/

My friends' taste are a good way to find new things...  You'll see a  
lot more classical on my listening lists these days, mainly because my 
home stereo is now my PC. 

Jeff
http://jeffharrington.org


Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Friday 09 May 2008 11:37:24 Michael Gogins wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for your response. I have never heard of last.fm, so I will now
>> google to find out what it is.
>>     
>
> Last.fm has the bonus that it tracks what you listen to, and compares that to 
> other last.fm users. So you get recommendations based on that.
> Also, it creates "neighbours", people who have similar artists in their 
> history. Then you can go to those peoples profiles and check what stuff they 
> listen to that you don't know of.
> I've been using that lately.
>
>