A really remarkable new service has surfaced in my listening life, at a web page called http://www.pandora.com. You give it the name of a few favorite artists or songs and the darn things start bringing up similar songs, which it then lets you reinforce or reject. It gradually ends up playing a whole spectrum of stuff right along your tastebuds that you haven't heard before.

I've had it playing all evening and it's introducing me to artists I really enjoy discovering.

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