Pandora
and
Last.fm are both services that purport to recommend music to you based on your
musical preferences, but in different ways. Pandora lets you pick a song and then recommends song with similar musical
qualities. Last.fm, on the other hand, recommends music based on the preferences of other people who like some of the
same music you do. Blogger Steve Krause used both Pandora and Last.fm for a few months and wrote a nice article on the
services' differences and similarities and
how good they really are at
recommending music. Ultimately Krause decided that both services are cool, but found "Last.fm better than
Pandora at delivering songs that I liked or at least didn't feel compelled to skip."
Tags: audioscrobbler, last.fm, music, pandora, recommend, social software, Steve Krause
