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Anyone know if it's possible to get access to music as a data feed? I'd like to write something that does what I want in place of pandora, without paying a gazillion dollars.
Pandora is not really fitting my needs. I like the way it works, but their algorithm for what music to play is flawed. I wouldn't mind that, but it only lets you skip 6 an hour. So if I'm working out and want to hear hard rock they keep playing old punk rock (like maybe dead milkmen) or slow stuff. Not what I want on my workout station.
If not , then maybe someone knows something that works like pandora but isn't stupid?
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I think this is what your asking for (though I don't know what Pandora is so can't be sure).
Spotify - though you do get adverts.
Grooveshark[^] - Is probably better - No adverts
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It's the ex-wife of Mr A Mole.
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Pandora[^] is similar to grooveshark. You pick an artist or genre and it plays a feed for you with related music. There is a free version that plays adds, and a paid version with no adds an an optional desktop app install.
You can vote a song down, and it won't play it on that station again ever.
You can vote songs up as well. But if you do, it makes them filter songs heavily. So if you like a few songs, you severely limit what is played.
It also ends up playing the same songs a lot.
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P0mpey3 wrote: Grooveshark[^]
That's quite a nice play on words.
I hope it was intentional.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was recently introduced to Spotify. I am enjoying this. It is set by playlists that you choose from. You can select where you want to start listening within the playlist. I like that 
So far I am liking it. I have been a fan for Pandora for a while, but I completely agree with you. I am enjoying Spotify so I don't see a need to go back to Pandora.
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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I've been hearing a lot about spotify. I need to sample it.
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No service will carry what I like, but they do carry a lot I don't like.
I simply rip CDs, vinyl, cassette, etc. to MP3 and let my phone randomize.
At the moment, my phone is playing a tune by my brother-in-law's friend -- no service will carry that.
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The trick is to have more than one "station" - which can be a similar, if not identical, genre. Instead of telling it to skip a song just change station - it has the same effect without the restrictions on the number of skips per hour.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yeah, that's not a bad idea.
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I used Pandora a loooooooooooong time ago, maybe when it first came out. I don't think they even had adds when I started using it. I liked it. It helped me find some new music.
But then the adds started, and I noticed they played a lot of music I didn't like more and more frequently. I also noticed the adds changed every time I un-liked a song. It occurred to me they were deliberately drawing me to the screen to un-like a song so they could change the advert (and guarantee I was seeing adverts - rather than having it run in the background).
I stopped using it years ago. I'm surprised every time someone mentions it, because it is always to say the don't like it. I learned not to like it before most people discovered it 
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I searched , but didn't find any articles, hints, or posts about pandora from you.
Thanks for nothing.
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My main Pandora Pet Peeve is the simple missing algorithm to not play N songs in a row from the same vocalist.
It will play a Mark Knopfler tune, followed with a Dire Straights song, and then one from the Notting Hillbillies. Of course they're themed together - it's all Mark - and thumbing up one gets you all, but it's redundant to repeatedly place the same vocalist from different bands in the pattern.
It also repeats Soundgarden, Chris Cornell and Temple of the Dog.
And repeats Morphine, Mark Sandman, and A.K.O.D.
It gets to be a joke; if I hear a Morphine tune, there's a 99.9% chance I'll hear a Sandman solo tune next. Every freaking time....
Oh, and there's the issue that it is making me thumb down every Tracy Chapman song in her collection one by one. I've never let a track play. I thumb down every track of hers it throws my way. Twenty five thumbs down into my usage, and once a week it still tries to sneak in a Tracy Chapman tune.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Spotify premium is worth every single penny. A few bucks a month to have unlimited access to a ridiculously large library of music and the ability to download for offline use. And no adverts.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I've been working on a workout playlist on spotify today. It said in the text that you can shuffle. So that's all I really need.
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Meh, I still prefer my MP3 collection over the online services. For certain genres (clasical mostly) I prefer www.iheart.com[^] or XM radio.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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psst - your tags are showing
Marc Clifton wrote: Prevention/i>
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: psst - your tags are showing
Thanks. I fixed the tag "malfunction"
Marc
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Too late. Google already cached it for all the world to laugh at forever. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well most people do either drink too much || are actually not alcoholics
Makes sense to me...
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At yeast he gets to have the last wort.
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I'm going to Hop past this...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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