Yeh, that agrees with my experience with last.fm. If I want to listen to some classic rock, I might create a station for Queen, and I'll hear Queen plus music from related bands. I also find that last.fm seems to do a pretty good job of picking related artists.
On 06/06/12 15:47, Evan Reese wrote: > Hmmm, have you tested whether it actually only plays music from one > specific band when you click on that band? I did a search for a > psychedelic trance artist that I like a lot, and when I clicked on that > artist, it came back with what it calls the name of that artist radio, > where it will play that artist and similar artists. It actually gave me > a list of those similar artists that it would play, and I tried it out. > It did not play just stuff from the original artist I clicked on. I > think it did a very good job of picking similar artists to the one I > like. (Now if I could only find how to adjust the volume.) > > If you haven't, try doing a search for a specific metal band and see > what happens. I think you should have a similar experience to what I > had. If not, then I'll se what happens when I try it. > > Evan > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dujari, Prateek" > <prateek.duj...@intel.com> > To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:20 PM > Subject: Help needed with last.fm > > >> Hello, >> I'm exploring last.fm internet radio. I would like to pick a heavy >> metal channel on last.fm that would automatically play mix of heavy >> metal by diff bands for me. I have arrived at last.fm's page of >> heavy metal. URL is below. >> http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/heavy+metal >> >> But on this page I see is the option to click on the names of specific >> individual metal bands and play the music of only that band. this is >> not what I'm looking for as I state above. Also on this page are bunch >> of diff genres of metal that one click on like, power metal, speed >> metal etc. if you click on any of these it just takes you to yet >> another page where really the only option I can see is to select and >> click a specific band and then last.fm plays music from just that band. >> >> How do I get last.fm to play me metal with songs from diff bands? >> Prateek >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
