Got an email from my Uncle Jim on Last.FM, of all places.
Last.FM is great because it just hangs out in your system tray and watches what you listen to in iTunes, then makes a feed of what you've listed to, and makes a radiostation based on what you've been listening to. It's a very passive way of greating a radio station, but makes a fairly accurate list of your iTunes collection. However, mine isn't exactly 100% on with my musical tastes. Mostly becuase my Sansa 280e doesn't scrobble.
A more active way to make a "Radio station," but without having to go full-bore into hosting and running your own files are the Mixtape services.
I have also been playing with a service called "muxtape" (http://heygabe.muxtape.com/) and MixWit (www.mixwit.com).
Both of these services let you make "mix tapes" of songs, the former of songs you upload from your own collection, and the other from stuff already available on the Internet.
Anyway, keep on Rockin' Uncle Jim.
Last FM
HeyGabe,
I have been having a blast with LastFM. If you check out my playlist you will get my entire lifetime of musicology as I recall it. Anyway, it may be a little self-absorbed but it is fun and I am trying to make it educational. Also, your cousin #26 Rachel, is really into Bob Dylan. She can't wait to go and buy the DVD of that movie with all the actors playing Bob. We watched the PBS documentary by Martin Scorsese again last night. She was jealous of how I saw Bob Dylan standing at the snack bar at Alpine Valley before his concert back in 198?. I told her if she didn' believe me she should e-mail the mayor of Waukesha and HE could verify that story. Anyway, if you could pass my playlist along to Your DAD, AKA, Brother Mel, Uncle Mel, Ray Olsen etc. he will probably enjoy it as he was a major influence on my musical tastes.
Yes I will keep on Rockn.
Uncle Jim (callmemrtibbs)
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