If you use iTunes to listen to music, there’s a plug-in to download called iLike. Based on the music you’re currently playing, it will suggest other music in a new iTunes sidebar. The music recommended will be either traditional tracks, or “free music” from GarageBand. To be honest, I forgot what their licensing terms are. I guess you’re free to download them, but whether you’re free to upload them again (distribute), modify them or use them in podcasts & movies (create derivatives), I don’t know. I doubt it, actually (so “free” in this case stands for gratis, not freedom).
Via O'Reilly Radar. ¹
Check out my iLike account. Strange to think that my music listening habits will now be published by *two* plug-ins: LastFM and iLike. Will this list grow? 😄
It doesn’t suggest anything when I play Fado or obscure folk music from Turkey, and it suggests Rai artist Cheb Mami when listening to Qawwali artist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Oh well. 😄
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I’ll have to check this out. I’m a fan of both last.fm and Pandora, so it’ll be interesting to see what iLike offers. Mind you, I’ve almost moved over to using Amarok (with last.fm support built in) for my iPod management, and that’s unlikely to change until Apple brings out a version of iTunes for Linux 😄
– GreyWulf 2006-10-26 09:55 UTC
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Hehe. I didn’t like the idea of running a special LastFM client (on Windows at work), which is why I just feed the system without actually following their recommendations.
Pandora worked quite nicely for a while when I has a station going that was initialized with Sigur Rós. I listened to it on my SqueezeBox in the kitchen. But then the Pandora station suddenly stopped working, and I was too lazy to investigate. It also turned out that Pandora’s selection of Latino music was tiny – I was looking for Bachata music similar to Aventura.
Plus I’ve got a thing going for GarageBand because of the unknown artists and being able to download audio files without feeling like the secret police descending on me any minute now.
– Alex Schroeder 2006-10-26 10:44 UTC