Lesson # 6 Music

Well, after two hours, I have explored some of lesson # 6 and have found that Firefox blocked Pandora"s website so I had to remove the block. I have been exploring and I am signed in on both Pandora and Finetune.

Not being much of a music enthusiast, Finetune works well for me because I can download suggested lists. You can look up artists and they give you information about them, their music and lists of related artists. One thing that I don't like is that they have a policy to allow only three pieces of music per artist per play list. For instance I found an artist named Nobuo Uematsu that I like and could only add three of his pieces. I suppose that I could make an additional list and add three more of his pieces to that list, but that means I would have to find 42 more songs to complete the list or have Finetunes find them for me.

An oddity that Finetune does is that if you start playing your list and decide to click from one song to another without listening to much of them they put up a block up and say "Hey, you have to listen to some of these songs". I found that really weird!

I found at the bottom of Last.fm's home page a listing of music concert appearances that can be sorted by location. I changed the location to "Seattle" and was able to find up and coming concerts. If I was a music buff, I think that this service would be great.

I have explored Sno-isle's music feature and did run across some interesting music from other cultures (like Tuvan throat singing and Indonesian flute music) The Smithsonian site does give a lot of musical variety. I had trouble setting up a folder and have not yet figured what I have done wrong.