What's the alternative? Grooveshark. The look simply didn't catch me at the first go. But second time around, I learned that the interface is slick.
Some high points of the service:
* crazy nice look
* don't need an account to play music (but I still have one, to make playlists and such)
* can navigate the site without interrupting music playback. This one is huge. I hate having my music interrupted, or having to open the player in a popup.
* add songs to favorites, playlists
* view your recently played and recently viewed songs (I find this to be nifty)
* add people to favorites (this is a nice feature if you have friends on the site, I guess)
* view popular songs
* upload your music (I haven't, and won't try this, but it's available)
* "people similar to me" feature (not working for me yet.. maybe I haven't favorited enough songs?)
* recommendations (play a song, click Autoplay, and skip/listen/rate songs to your heart's content)
* get info on a song (and a list of similar songs)
* search by genre, artist, song, album, people, and playlists
Give it a swing and let me know what you think!
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I'll be checking this out, absolutely. I love the ease of access with Pandora, but find that sometimes the artist channels are too literal: choose a female artist and hear only female artists for the next 20 songs.