Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tired of the Same Old Music?

Or tired of being fed music from the radio?

Try Stumble Audio (no they didn't pay me to advertise for them, but I really like their concept) And I've been listening to their music, and it's all quite good.

Their about section, which you can also access here:

StumbleAudio is a social music discovery site with a mission is to help you find music by new and exciting artists that you would like, rather than play or sell you the hits by known artists that you are “expected” to love.

Our catalog has over 2,000,000 tracks by over 120,000 artists ready to be played in full length, high quality, free of charge.

StumbleAudio started to build its recommendation engine by importing massive anonymous data of saved favorites, music preferences and buying patterns from several online download and actual music CD stores. As you use StumbleAudio the system learns from your “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” and constantly adjusts the music offered to your liking.

We are committed to making our recommendation engine more accurate and relevant as we collect more real use data. We will also soon have various social network applications and widgets to share you music discoveries with your friends on Facebook, MySpace, Blogger and others.

P.S. And, yes, artists do get paid when their songs are played on StumbleAudio.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

a revisitation

I am at my parents place today and just discovered all of my old music on this old desktop we have. I used it in my first 2 years of college. I thought my dad had deleted everything on it so I assumed it was long gone. But when trying to watch t.v. over the internet I found everything was still there. I was so excited I almost peed myself. This discovery of my old favs was the thing I needed to get me revved up about music again. Let's not forget the old dance hits like gravy train!!!! and fucking on the dance floor. All my feelings depression at san diego and angstiness of freshman year of college came back when listening to dead kennedys. Now let's just hope I can get them on my mp3 player okay.