Untitled for a Reason

As much as I enjoy Pandora, I’ll be honest, sometimes they pick songs that are those over-played crappy ones that I’ve heard on the regular radio 100 times. Occasionally, Pandora will pick an artist that I’ve never heard of, and while that’s cool, that usually only happens when I’m listening to Indie music (which is a genre full of unheard of artists to begin with). I’ve been told by a couple that they prefer Last FM for it’s music selection. While I do have a profile there, I still prefer Pandora because of a interface that I’m use to and seems relatively easier to use compared to Last FM.

Anyways, I was Stumbling around today and came across this site called uWall. If you want to listen to only one artist, especially an artist who’s music you own little or none, it’s awesome. Looking at it for a couple seconds, it basically pulls links of Youtube videos of songs from the artist and puts them into one player. Of course, the downfall is that the playlist/shuffle feature isn’t that good. You can hit shuffle, but the music it shuffles is for you isn’t as specific as what Pandora will play for you (example, you’ll be listening to Stairway to Heaven one second, and the next you’ll be listening to Dave Matthews Band). To fix this, you can create your own playlist, but then the downside to this is that you need to spend time making it and there’s no “suprises” in what songs are coming. Looking at it from the legal ends, this site is also probably technically illegal; while Pandora pays artists the rights to play their music, this site is using videos from Youtube, which are very often not endorsed or uploaded by the artists. Oh, and this also means there are no ads, another downfall to Pandora. 

Regardless, this is a great website from the little I’ve played around with it. I can only guess that I may begin to end up spending more time on this site than Pandora for my internet radio.