Well just to piggyback on your comment, here's the Pandora station I like to use.
EDIT: For anyone who can't use the link for whatever reason, the station is Dragon Age: Origins. Sorry, I am a Grooveshark migrant and I'm not real slick with Pandora yet.
There's a live Stevie Ray Vaughn track of "All Around the Watchtower" where Stevie says "it's fun to play Hendrix". EDIT: I lose. It was about Voodoo Child. http://www.pandora.com/music/song/stevie+ray+vaughan/voodoo+child+slight+return+live
Pandora to gently introduce me to bands I don't know, who are similar to stuff I already like. (It has occasional streaks of surprising breadth, I've found.) I listen at work, so I don't expend dedicated "finding new music" time. Once I find something that interests me, I sometimes hit up last.fm to find similar artists, or just explore the one I found.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
(edit: I can't make links)
Since OP was looking for a station, not just one or two songs, I have taken all the song suggestions given so far (that had at least one upvote, and were available in the Pandora catalog) and made a Pandora station out of them.
Presenting Sexxit Radio: "Mood Music" 12/3/2012. Description: Quiet, slow, sultry, and cool to the touch.
So we'll see how that goes. I'll add more as upvotes happen for other music. Assuming I remember this thread. Which I might not.
EDIT: That was fast. Added Massive Attack.
In case you're interested, /u/prototypetolyfe put together a Galaxy New Radio channel on Pandora based off of the original soundtrack. It's become one of my favorite presets.
Its also on Pandora Priemers, not slowed down. (You can play what songs you want, its a playlist) They are promoting the soundtrack.
So epic!
Pandora tip: If you go to your settings in Pandora, there is an "Explicit Content filter." Just check the "No. Do not allow explicit content." option. That's been my setting for a while, and it's always worked great.
I'm not sure why anyone would upvote this before actually trying it.
I loaded up Firefox. I logged into Pandora. I selected a channel. I played a song. I paused the song before it switched to another song. I typed 'about:cache' in a new tab. I selected "Disk Cache" from the choices. I have 8 cache choices. The largest choice is 148,884 bytes - "http://www.pandora.com/img/splash.jpg" .
This doesn't work.
Add a Hans Zimmer station.
He's composed the soundtracks for just a few unknown movies (and video games). Stuff like...
You will not be disappointed.
In order from my most favorite to ones that are just very good.
In fact - here you go. This is my Pandora station where I discovered 100% of all of the above, after discovering Crystalize by Lindsay Stirling. There's things on here that are heavier/with vocals, but majority should be right up your alley: http://www.pandora.com/#/?sc=sh1041582814033865691&shareImp=true
Oh that's just torture. It's like being in a completely paralyzed body but still have the ability to think.. If I may suggest, I would tell you to listen to Bill Burr or Louis C.K. on Pandora. Stand-Up comedy makes me happier in general but these two explore the suckiness in life very well and may help cheer you up.
Call me lazy, but I just stream Pandora's Downtempo station on the stereo and go to town.
I even have it set up so it's always only two taps away on the tablet.
Yes, currently we don't need Flash, but websites continue to require it. Not every video on youtube has a webm equivalent, which causes youtube to revert back to their Flash player. For some reason Vimeo continues to use Flash to play their hi-def videos. Also, every single porn site uses Flash; likely due to older browsers like you said. Music websites such as last.fm and Pandora still use Flash. Many other websites also use Flash for automatically copying text to the clipboard. It will take a while for the majority of websites to fully migrate off of Flash.
I don't own any software. Cannot afford it (yet at least).
Spotify... Pandora... even Youtube. If you live in USA of course. The rest of the world?? Restricted.
I buy a DVD/Bluray. I then have to be fed, forcefully, PUBLICITY, ADVERTISING, TRAILERS, which i cannot fastforward. Mind you, in the DVD I BOUGHT.
I don't go to the movies anymore. For a 90 minutos movie, i had to put up with 25 minutes of publicity. They can't even sell all that pub time, so there's mass repeats. Yes, we pay to see publicity.
I don't watch TV anymore, for the same reasons mostly, and due to the absurd low quality and etertainment value.
So yeah... F*** them. The ONLY ONES i respect, are the software creators. They produce a software, sell it, i pay, install, have support. I don't have to watch a god damn Adobe CS5 advertisement when i open Lightroom, or vice versa.
My two cents of course, nothing personal, just the other side of the coin/world :)
http://www.pandora.com/profile/james.varga His pandora account was used ~2 days ago, so he's been active. But yeah, laying low. who knows if the l0rd will return. ):
regardless of what he did, he still has TONS of fans who still love him for the guy he is and his personality.
Depends on my mood, so I'll do one from three genres:
Rush
Zero 7
My Chemical Romance
Those three I find myself listening to a lot. I missed the MCR/Fallout Boy trend in highschool and was mostly listening to classic rock, so I've been getting to know that genre recently.
Here's basically everything I listen to (I think you should be able to see my stations). It's pretty eclectic, outside of Country.
assuming you are talking about more recent music, not the oldies?
here's my pandora station for music like that: http://www.pandora.com/station/145842112822511695
To name drop some artists you may like:
Alabama Shakes
Middle Brother
Benjamin Booker
J Roddy Walston & The Business
The Weeks
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Hanni El Khatib
Oil Boom
The Growlers
Allah-Las
Modest Mouse
Portugal. The Man
Shovels and Rope
Rayland Baxter
Dr. Dog
Deer Tick
Band of Skulls
The Kills
Kings of Leon
The White Stripes
The Black Keys
edit:
Listen to Pandora, which is a free internet music streaming service, essentially kind of like internet radio, where you set up "stations" based on one particular band (or, in this case, composer), or you can even set up a station based on one particular (specific) piece. (Note: Not sure if it's available world-wide (I'm guessing probably not), so appologies if it's not available for use by the OP.)
Then it plays stuff for you that's similar to what you based the station on. Then you can give a thumbs-up to the tracks you like, and a thumbs-down to the tracks you don't like -- and the station essentially "learns" what your musical tastes are.
It's often very accurate, and I'm constantly amazed at how many obscure things I really like just happen to come up in stations I've created, sometimes drawing parallels between musical artists (or composers) I hadn't ever strongly noticed before.
Try it, it's really amazing, and very helpful for expanding one's musical tastes when you only know a little bit about a particular kind of music.
If you're quick after redeeming you can copy and paste the pandora link. I like Pandora a lot. It's really good at detecting that I don't want vocals on a generated playlist.
http://www.pandora.com/gift?code=PULRGDKPZKJS4&type=65ed687a76704557
It is going to sound a little ridiculous but is play to a Pandora playlist called Sub(Nautic). It is aqua-trance station. Mostly mellow oceanic trance music. Helps evolve the awe of the world, without intensifying the immense horrors of the deep.
Your is actually part of the English language in case you're unaware. I think you meant grammar, so if you're going to call out someone on their own mistake you might want to use the correct terms. Also you might want to chill out, here is something to help with that.
Do you Pandora?
I have a traditional instrumental station I've been nursing for several years:
http://www.pandora.com/station/177305093404788870
You can add it as a station to your Pandora and through that'll be able to see all the likes.
Unfortunately many of these songs and groups are so small they aren't hosted on Youtube, or I'd sort though them and link to you.
The group from the initial link Lúnasa has a lot of tracks on Youtube however.
If you ever want to look into the more lyrical. It's mainly Irish, but with some Scottish and Icelandic/Greenland mixed in.
What about New Vegas?
I got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle...
Edit: This Pandora station plays a bunch of music from the fallout eras. It's called Galaxy News Radio. No Three Dog though.
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh889454990831722794&shareImp=true
You need more Led Zeppelin in your life, dude. I would also recommend checking out The White Stripes, Left Lane Cruiser, Scott Biram, Radio Moscow, The Muggs, and let's not forget Jimi Hendrix.
Another good idea is to make an account with Pandora Radio, make a station with bands you know you like, and go exploring.
Go to Pandora and add in the bands mentioned here (Lunasa, Dervish, Planxty, Gaelic Storm, Flook, Beoga, Altan, Liz Carroll, Natalie MacMaster, Kevin Burke, Cherish the Ladies, and a host of others). It will discover a wide range of similar artists for you. Make a note of the ones you like and check them out.
Better yet, head over to TheSession.Org and see if there is a live session near where you live. Go and listen, even talk to the musicians to find out more info on their inspirations and what they're currently listening to. As a rule they don't bite (buy them a beer first to make sure). Make sure you call/email the contact info first, as some sessions could have moved locations, disbanded, etc.
Alternatively, if you're searching on the internet for "Irish Music" you'll turn up a lot of St. Patrick's Day favorites. Search for "Celtic Music" and you'll get a lot of Narada peices, Enya, and deep relaxation stuff. Not really what you're looking for I'd assume. Search instead for "Traditional Irish Music" and that should help refine your search. In my experience, most musicians of this genre don't refer to it as Celtic, but simply Irish Traditional.
Hope that helps.
You are right. Post-rock isn't what you want, post-metal is. I don't have any specific recomendations because I get my post-metal fix completely from my post-metal Pandora station. You could start there if you want.
> So you are saying a $3 billion company didn't do their due diligence?
First of all, the $ value of a company doesn't tell me anything about their knowledge of web technologies...
That being said: the bullet points I'm countering don't seem to have come straight from that $3 billion company anyway... they seem to have come from the obviously anti-Flash blog you linked to...
Upon further review, they seem to have just taken the list of new features from Pandora's site, and then falsely implied that those features are possible "because it's HTML5 and not Flash", which is at its very best a mistake / stretch, and at its worst is a complete sack of lies...
The only claim actually made by Pandora in terms of HTML5 being an improvement is "faster performance" - which may well be legit...
However, they're also alienating a large percentage of their users if they don't have a Flash fallback... IE8, IE7 and IE6 still have legitimate market share (much as we all hate all 3 of them)....
I bet if you contact their advertising department you'll get a quick response: http://www.pandora.com/static/ads/media-kit/advertising.html Since it's their goal to have ads that bring in customers, they want to tell you what they advertise.
Old school hardcore punk! I grew up listening to this stuff. Hell, here's my Pandora station that plays a lot of old NYHC-type stuff (forgive the newer stuff, if that's not your thing - it occasionally goes as recent as Throwdown and Lamb of God): http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh244145247180368112
Just listen to the music, man. Find a band you like, add their station on Pandora, and you'll get a shit ton of other bands of the same style.
While working is the best time to listen to music as it makes it less boring. You don't HAVE to pay attention to the lyrics of the song, and there doesn't HAVE to be any meaning behind a song. There's a ton of genres that are purley instrumental
Since Pandora first hit, their speil has included the Music Genome Project nonsense where songs are assigned certain characteristics by "trained music analysts".
I have to giggle when I imagine a bunch of twenty-somethings with their Bachelor's in Music Theory sitting in an office with headphones on filling out rubrics one song after another. "See Dad! I told you I would get a job with this degree!"
But if such care is taken, then why the hell are the stations so hit-and-miss? I suspect no subjective human analysis of the music could ever rival suggestions based on user listening metrics.
I don't have the energy to read everyone's responses just now so I hope you'll excuse me if this is redundant.
I recommend experimenting with sensations. I find this illness is a lot more influenced by sensory perceptions than I expected. I feel much better in low light, to the point where I now wear sunglasses on the bus or in many shops due to the painful fluorescent light. Soft clothes (warm slippers, for instance!), soft bed linens (mine are flannel for winter), even something as simple as a loofah in the bath. I just discovered that and it's too scratchy but leaves a nice feeling afterwards.
Such small things can make a huge difference when the main thing you're feeling is 'awful.' I also like certain sounds and smells. Experiment and find what soothes you. Think indulgence, comfort, soft pink clouds.
A beautiful high-resolution copy of the Spectrum of the Sky album cover by Break Of Reality. Also in 1920x1080.
Was listening to Pandora and when I saw the album art I had to go find it for wallpaper.
Icelandic game?
Icelandic band! Sigur Rós! Especially their untitled album, ( ).
I started listening to a lot of electronic / post-rock / trip-hop stuff lately (by creating a Pandora station seeded with Sigur Rós). I find it goes well with Eve.
Here's the Pandora station i used for my Deadlands campaign:
http://help.rdio.com/customer/portal/articles/2228283-important-information-about-your-rdio-account
They say "After your subscription ends, you can continue listening to Rdio Free (ad-supported stations on mobile or ad-supported, on-demand songs, albums, and playlists on the web) until the service goes offline."
so its inevitable that the service will end. All I wanna say is SUCK IT RDIO! Hope it fails. I'm pissed I invested my time in it and not in Spotify. Setting up favorites to the next service is a huge pain in the ass.
ON TOP of that... They're giving Canada the finger http://www.pandora.com/restricted B-E-A-Utiful.....
You're definitely doing that wrong. I have 2577 likes and everything that comes on for my stations is station related.
So the trick is to upvote depending on the station you're listening to. Yes, I like "Kryptonite" "Yellow" and "Stairway to Heaven" but they don't quite fit in to my Airborne Toxic Event station so they get the downvote there.
But then Airborne Toxic Event gets downvoted if I catch it anywhere near my 90s-00s Rock Station (Tonic, Wallflowers, Fastball, Barenaked Ladies)
Link to my Howlin Rock Station
Link to my Tonic Water Station
From my Pandora station:
Edit: formatting
Some of my go-to favorites!
This is a great script. Thank you!
One issue I am having with it is in regard to "Liked" songs that were liked on a station that has since been deleted.
The script interprets the "Like" and associates it with the station, based on the data available at http://www.pandora.com/content/tracklikes it then will created a new playlist on Google Music.
Is there anyway to have it check whether or not the liked song belongs to a Pandora Station(a live/current station), if it does match it to the playlist on google music, if it does not just put it into the "Pandora" liked playlist on Google Music without creating a new seperate playlist.
Check out my Pandora station for some good Shadowrun tunes. Its been tailored over a couple years now and you might find some songs that work for you. Vendetta Violent herself sounds like the Kidney Thieves, particularly 'the invisible plan' CD.
I am a freelancer so the sat/sun thing doesn't apply to me.. But I do love a quality espresso and some alone time to do my coding and what not. My pandora radio station is slightly different though.
http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh1885224810418259016&shareImp=true
I'm the exact age as Eyedea (he's was older by 3 days), and I remember hearing this track when I was 17 when it came out. I was blown away that someone my age at that time had a verse like this. So dope. BTW have you heard the new Atmosphere track on Southsiders called Flicker. It's about Mikey and is pretty touching. It's the first track he has released about his death.
Here's the link to the pre-release stream
This is just a rudimentary sample. You'll have to work it into something usable:
import requests import urlparse
class SSOSite(requests.Session): def init(self,baseurl,login_page='/'): super(SSOSite,self).init() self.baseurl=baseurl self.login_url=urlparse.urljoin(baseurl,login_page)
def login(self,username,password): # Fix this, assumes all sites take 'email' and 'password' as params. payload={'email':username,'password':password} return self.post(self.login_url,data=payload)
if name=='main': #create any number of SSOSite objects s=SSOSite('http://www.pandora.com','/account/sign-in') print s.login('','mypassword') # <Response [200]> print s.get('http://www.pandora.com/some/page') # <Response [200]>
Me too. It's got a bit of Frank Sinatra and The Ink Spots in it, so it fits right in with both Fallout 3 and New Vegas. If you'd like a link, here it is. I hope that works. Tell me what you think.
I like the PBS Ideas Channel on Youtube. They even talked about bronies once.(we're whores for pandering, aren't we?)
I also feel obligated to mention Pandora, an internet radio station that has introduced me to a ton of new music.
I really hate to say this, but have you tried meditation. It changed my life in one week. The reason I hate to say it is because I know if someone had to told me to meditate when I was depressed, I would have told them kindly to go fuck off. You really have nothing to lose.
r/meditation can help, but I started by just reading a lot about mediation and listening to some ambient music on Pandora. It got me in the mood to start. In fact, my best meditation sessions are ones where I start reading about it prior and listen to some relaxing music on Pandora.
First one is work out/ running station Second one is running/chillin Third one is fucking/jogging (mainly fucking...it is my "wet" playlist) Hope this helps!
1) http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh789541892594979063&shareImp=true
2) http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh528624867040940279&shareImp=true
3) http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh391660657779003639&shareImp=true Edit again: seriously I don't know who you are or what you are doing but I'm proud of you for trying to better your physical health. I was very unhealthy and over the past few years have changed my lifestyle to become more healthy/fit. It takes a lot of work and commitment but if you stick with it you will be so happy and more content with yourself. Keep up the good work. /end inebriated rant
According to http://www.pandora.com/restricted, "we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S." Great, if you don't live in the US, you don't exist.
It's a pity, I wanted try this script. I have never heard of Pandora before.
I made a Pandora Station based off the pianist Ludovico Einaudi that gets me all kinds of focused.
More often than not, I end up listening to their 90's Alternative station, though.
Pandora's is algorithmically-powered, which Grooveshark lacks. I like discovering new music based on shared traits and the only thing online which tracks traits (as opposed to genres) is Pandora's Music Genome Project.
On top of that, Pandora has a metric tonne of emerging artists and obscure recordings while everything on Grooveshark is user-uploaded, meaning that you may get a handful of popular recordings but lack the bulk of an artist's discography (or in some cases any examples of that artist).
pandora.com is a good source. I have channels created around such artists as Aes Dana, Asura, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Secede, Solar Fields, Ten Madison, and Ulrich Schnauss, among many others.
One thing of course is that they can't get ANY song they want. Licensing is always such a hassle. We didn't get any Beatles, Beach Boys, etc.
Btw if anyone uses Pandora, here's the full lineup of M3 songs, ready to play:
There's actually a much better way to do this that works with the screen off as well. This is an example of it. It essentially uses the create a new station intent in pandora to launch that station. The only thing you would need to change is the station id in
pandorav2:/createStation?stationId=1424753932959315663
You can find the station id in the url for your station in question: "http://www.pandora.com/station/play/1424753932959315663" when listening to it in a browser.
So what I suggest your task would be is make a task for each station that you want and have the autovoice task launch the task that is named $station. PM me if you have any questions about this.
How do you expect me to pick just one. Here's all of them:
TheFatRat: Unity, Monody, Time Lapse
Swedish House Mafia: Don't You Worry Child, Save the World, One (Your Name)
American Authors: Best Day of my Life, Luck, Believer
Madeon: The City, Pop Culture, Finale
Imagine dragons: On Top of the World, Radioactive, Amsterdam
Owl City: Rediculously Happy, Fireflies, Alligator Sky
Milky Chance: Stolen Dance, Flashed Junk Mind, Running
Avichii: The Nights, Levels, Wake me up
OneRepublic: If I Lose Myself Counting Stars, Secrets
Of Monsters and Men: Dirty Paws, Little Talks, Wolves Without Teams
Mitchie M: Viva Happy, Burenai ai de, Ai Dee
OMFG: Hello, Ice Cream, I Love You
Passenger: Holes, Let her go, Things That Stop You Dream
Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man, The Cave, I Will Wait
Caravan Palace: Lone Digger, Rock it for me, Dramophone
Studio Killers: Jenny, Eros and Apoolo, All Men are Pigs
** Here are some pandora.com channels I created for these:
Happy: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2270275446097989270
Mellow: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2296486394554896022
Mixed: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2237320531402968726
I almost always listen to my Pandora station. It's mostly dreamy electronic with lots of breathy female vocals, but there's other stuff thrown in.
Using the golden standard of bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Disturbed, and Avenged Sevenfold as "Metal", here is my take on nu-metal and metalcore:
Nu-metal incorporates a poppier style than metal. While metal tends to rely on a standard set of instruments and has a very easily identifiable sound (heavy distortion guitars, sometimes a double-kick, powerful vocals), nu-metal incorporates additional sounds and instrumentation. Linkin Park is probably the definitive nu-metal band, as you can easily see the difference between them, with their rap verses, distorted vocals, and electronic elements, and normal metal bands. Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, P.O.D., Korn, and Evanescence are other examples.
Metalcore takes the core of metal (hence the name), and runs with it. The point of metal, at least in the beginning, to subvert expectations and go against the grain. Metalcore latches onto that idea with reckless abandon. Where metal exercises restraint, metalcore goes all-out. Where metal uses lyrics to drive home a point, metalcore uses aggressive vocals to drive their point home. It's also heavily influenced by the emo scene, which also contributes to the heavy emotion in metalcore. Examples include Asking Alexandria, Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine, and Black Veil Brides.
Personally, I'm not a fan of either. I usually prefer power metal or just straight-up metal. For example, this is one of my most-used Pandora stations. Sabaton, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, etc.
Eu tenho utilizado para aceder ao Pandora e não tenho tido qualquer problema, quanto ao uso no Netflix, não faço ideia de como se comporta, mas deverá funcionar sem problemas.
I had that problem too. If this one isn't working for you, I posted the Pandora stream earlier yesterday, and that one seems to work just fine.
EDIT: Here's the link if, like me, you're too lazy to go sorting through previous posts: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2853881953254102603
Plus Pandora have many key learnings about EDM Festival Dance to share, and synergistic opportunities....
I'm kidding. I have no idea what it "means"....
seriously, I listen to Darude-Sandstorm. Fast tempo, never gets old. Also, I listen to Lindsay stirling on Pandora, because of the fast tempo aforementioned, the uniqueness of songs, and the general edm feel. http://www.pandora.com/station/play/1708117716189982085
I listen to "Heroic Blues" on Pandora. (Appropriate name) I've been fine tuning the songs for a couple weeks.
http://www.pandora.com/stations/play/1854147655476600840?shareImp=true&isGooglePlay=1&sp=1
You'd want to follow the link in the email and have a read through their Terms and Conditions. Most notable for me (my emphasis added):
> If you have provided us with your phone number, you hereby grant Pandora the authorization to contact you at that number through one or more means, including but not limited to text messages (i.e., SMS messages) or other similar notifications, phone calls, videoconferencing, or other audiovisual communication methods now known or hereafter devised, for a purpose that may include providing you with special offers or facilitating a call with an artist. If you would like to change your phone number communication preferences, please contact our Listener Support team.
From what I can tell, you can only change your phone number preferences by contacting the support team directly - not through any settings on your account.
This single point right here makes Pandora seem super duper shady to me now.
If you want to rock out like MrsJeek, listen to my favorite Pandora station for a few hours. I have spent several years perfecting that station so now it only plays songs I love.
I am also staring my deadline in the face (July 31) and am exhausted as well. It's also much easier to give advice than than to get it, so hopefully I say something useful.
Good luck! Stay strong, and dissertate like the wind!
Edit/Addendum: I just want to say to all of us who are exhausted and struggling - your feelings and experiences are justified, valid, and to be expected. This is hard (if it was easy, everyone would do it ::eye roll::). But it's ok to feel like this. It's ok to wake up 5 times a night to jot down thoughts, or in a panic that you didn't email the draft that you really did. It's ok to have dreams about that one committee member berating you. This doesn't feel good, but it's temporary and will be over eventually. You are enduring with all of us and we will all persevere.
Depends on the day, really. Mostly I listen to http://www.pandora.com/station/2274617794027731853, which is a bunch of Japanese rock and some pop. Other times I'll listen to A Day to Remember and similar stuff http://www.pandora.com/station/952920155045641101, and when I'm feeling extra chill and just want some background noise, I'll listen to some kpop http://www.pandora.com/station/1609865240106646413
Pandora is looking for an Account Manager in Santa Monica.
Glassdoor says their total compensation package is around 80k.
Still my favorite. I love the little commercials, and the GalNet updates give a nice vibe. Great mix of music in it too, and you can open the feed in winamp/whatever music player you want.
EDIT: didn't see you said "on pandora"
How does this sound? http://www.pandora.com/stations/play/2129754121887856735?shareImp=true&isGooglePlay=1&sp=1
Most of the songs you heard are also on his Pandora station, when I get home later I will link the station.
EDIT: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2552484866724313827 Most songs you hear are by Uppermost on their albums "One" and "Revolution"
I love this shit but don't actually have any idea what it's called. Maybe these will help.
http://www.pandora.com, make a Nosaj Thing station, explore from there.
Maybe skim through this since it's kinda sorta similar and I just happened to have the link handy.
Check out my Pandora station :D
What other bands should I add? Leaning towards Power Metal.
> Any one have any other recommendations for good music to listen to while studying (it must be instrumental, otherwise I just listen to the lyrics instead of doing what I'm supposed to do)?
I really like listening to the Mass Effect 3 soundtrack which is an excellent soundtrack (also my favorite game series of all time). Be careful though, if you plan on playing those games and haven't yet, don't watch the pictures in the video- they may be a bit spoiler-y. (Also if you find yourself with ~70-100 hours to burn and like sci-fi, I can't recommend those games enough :P).
I also have a Mass Effect 3 soundtrack Pandora station which has a lot of good music on it from Two Steps From Hell and AudioMachine, as well as a bunch of other games (Skyrim, Assassins Creed 2, The Last of Us, etc.)
Here's my most played Pandora station.
The seeds are Nemesea, Edenbridge, Sleepthief, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Evanescence, The Birthday Massacre, Amaranthe, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Sirenia, and Delain. The most recent band I've discovered through this station is Icon For Hire.
Xandria is worth looking into, they're very symphonic. Delain is a bit on the pop side of things vs. the symphonic side, but still good. You said you're a fan of Within Temptation, so I'd definitely recommend Delain. Leaves Eyes has the problem where they can be a bit growly in some of their songs, but others are quite lovely.
Krypteria and Sirenia are two other names that might be worth you looking into. They're a bit on the gothic side of symphonic metal.
Actually, I've found that the best way to find new bands is to just make a Pandora station seeded with the artists you like. It's how I discovered most of the metal bands I like, actually.
I really like this Pandora station. Christmas jazz is much less offensive than Christmas pop :P
I also like to turn on ALL THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. and then turn off the regular lights. Bask in the lovely warm glow.
Hope you feel better :)
I happen to have a pandora station that was seeded from a category called "Chill Out". Not sure if this actually represents the kind of music referenced in the article, but here it is
There are a couple different playlists / sources of music he uses.
You can check out his youtube playlist or follow his pandora account where you'll get access to the stations that he listens to with the personalized upvotes/downvotes that have specialized them.
Hope that helps!
You can link the stations you're listening to with the ID#. So you get a link like: http://www.pandora.com/station/911129238307967093 then anybody can listen to the station you're playing or make it their own. I don't think you can link quick-mixes though.
Hey thanks. That's got a great little funk to it.
I'm going to plug that into a new Pandora station, see what it comes up with.
Found it, first try. I'll tailor this a bit and see what happens. http://www.pandora.com/station/play/2328309222969584895
They have a Pandora Station: http://www.pandora.com/cottage-industry/cottage-industry
Apparently a couple of members also went on to join another defunct band called Kookaburra, but that band is now done as well http://www.reverbnation.com/kookaburra1
My favorite genre for just chillin' or studying is postrock, but my favorite song is probably Black Tables by Other Lives.
Here we goo^ooo^^ooo (sorry in advance for the wall of text)
Currently listening to The Bends
My favorite bands:
* Coldplay ^(Hush. They are my babies.)
* Explosions in the Sky
* The Fray
* Owl City
* Sigur Rós
* Caspian
* MONO
* Bon Iver
* Oasis
* Blur
* Snow Patrol
* Death Cab for Cutie
* The Strokes
My favorite genres are postrock (here's a pandora station if you're curious) and whatever genre everything else I listed above is in. I guess it's like alt-rock or acoustic rock or something? (Here's another pandora station for that stuff)
Once upon a time, there were Fallout 3 mods which added radio stations to the game; the original radio station in the game, Galaxy News Radio, played an assortment of 50s music. Mods expanded both GNR and added new radio stations; one of my favorites featured music from "Atomic Platters," pop from the late 40s and 50s dealing with Cold War issues (tensions with Russia, develops in atomic power and weapons, patriotism, etc.). At some point, I managed to find archives that contained the MP3s of most of the music supplied in the various radio stations and extensions and turned it into a playlist on my machine.
Fast forward to the present - I was hunting for music to play in SE after wearing out the ambient soundtrack and unearthed that old FO3 playlist again, and it meshed so well it was ridiculous - all these songs about the original "uranium rush" of the late 40s and 50s and atomic power and other things while I had my own uranium rush in space; it was awesome. That said, like before, that playlist got a little worn out playing it.
So I opened up Pandora one night, and pumped the names of as many of the songs and artists in that playlist that I could into this channel, and the result was a smashing success - it plays a great mix of 40s and 50s tunes from a variety of genres. Occasionally it goes a little off the rails with contemporary tunes that I guess share some traits but I keep training it and those incidences are rare.
I also have an association of late night talk radio with long overnight drives and journeys (surrounded by the night sky), so come midnight CDT I like to turn on Coast to Coast AM. I figure it's related because they get into aliens visiting Earth in spaceships, and I'm driving a spaceship, so it fits.
Made a Pandora station with most of the bands suggested in this thread called human being a robot at http://www.pandora.com/stations/play/1608008031647358027
…also made one last year from a thread about relatively new bands called inner hipster at http://www.pandora.com/stations/play/557846076318604363
I listen to my Pandora here's the link, not sure if it'll work which has ska, celtic rock and big band. When it plays big band it makes tf2 feel like Fallout 3/NV
Thanks.
for point of distinction, the first station is strictly sea shanties, period.
This one's just an indiscriminate bucket of sea slop, i used it to try to find new content http://www.pandora.com/station/fa8c57f79ee8a12d3cdad521cf74a9f23d02505b8421c31b
this one is for sea songs that are not shanteys, including a few where i can't tell if it's a forebitter or a capstan chantey http://www.pandora.com/station/199151603435771868
Any Linux distro would do. Since it's a netbook, then LXDE, Xfce, Openbox, etc. would fit you more nicely.
Since you have lubuntu. Just stay with that.
So are you looking for streaming music or play music files?
Find some Internet Radio Stations with no or minimum commercials.
I like http://grooveshark.com/ but you have to created the play list. If you sign-up you keep your list you created.
As for music files. I just use any torrent search engine to find the music I like to download. To make up my music library.
You can have a one click shortcut to anything you like to listen too. Either through your browser or favorite music client.
Pandora is a single page application: url.urlopen("Http://www.pandora.com")
will only give you the pages source. Right click > view source (not the dev tools elements panel, which will show the currently rendered DOM) and you can see what that code actually returns. So then how can you get the data? Well, it's being fetched asynchronously somehow, so you need to check out the requests your browser is sending and get the info you want from those.
But like piss_in_boots said, if there's an actual API maybe just use that.
I'm always happy to help. I recommend trying Pandora, if you haven't already heard of it. You can create a radio station based off of certain artists or songs, and they will recommend songs by similar artists.
Pandora.
Seeded with Take Five and, the man himself, Dave Brubeck
Some thumbs up and downs thrown in there also.
If you would like it here is my station.
Simple brine and Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce this time around.
I emailed pandora with the same problem. > Thanks for getting back to me. A lot of times quitting your browser completely, re-opening it and going back to http://www.pandora.com can help. If that doesn't work, try these steps:
> 1. Update Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome
> 2. Clear Browsing Data (including browsing history, cache and cookies) by clicking on the icon with 3 horizontal lines (located on the browser toolbar) > Tools > Clear Browsing Data. On this screen, please select "the beginning of time" for the time period and then click on Clear Browsing Data.
> 3. Make sure to bypass the Pop-up Blocker for Pandora:
>- Click the 3 horizontal lines in the upper right, and select Settings. - Select Show Advanced Settings - Under Privacy, click the Content Settings button. - Under Pop-ups click on Manage Exceptions - Allow [*.]pandora.com
>4. Also under Settings > Show Advanced Settings > Privacy - Content Settings, if your Plug-ins are not set to Run Automatically, then make sure to allow [*.]pandora.com under Manage Exceptions.
>5. Also under Plug-Ins, disable Extensions like Adblock, Flashblock, and NoScript or allow www.pandora.com within them.
>6. If you are using an internet firewall or anti-virus program, it could be blocking portions of our site. Try allowing access to www.pandora.com within those programs, and then try visiting our site again. If this doesn't help, then try disabling such programs entirely as a test to see if this affects your issue.
>7. Try an alternative browser like Firefox to see if you have better luck.
>8. Finally restart your computer and return to http://www.pandora.com
>Let me know how it goes.
>Best, Ben | Pandora Listener Advocate PANDORA® internet radio
It's not on premieres. You gotta "come across them". I've heard 5 besides the three they released so far. You can hear clips of all the songs here: http://www.pandora.com/dirty-heads/sound-of-change
I have a Pandora station that plays almost exclusively clawhammer pickers. I found this artist through this station, and there are some other artists that show up on here that are pretty similar.
Oh, I haven't got very far on the music spreadsheet and may never. Here's my Pandora station though. (If it seems like the music isn't all that similar, it's probably because I pretty much have all my music (besides dubstep, chiptune, and really pop-y music) all together.
Replying to main thread.
This is my station so far with your help, now I need to add in some french or possibly some other jazz fusion type stuff.
I use Pandora's Electronic Music for Study when I need to focus. Also I have an app on smartphone from AmbiScience for distration free background sounds.