Week 5, Thing 11

Lately I've been dissatisfied with my exposure to new music. Even with a satellite radio, I never seem to find a lot of stuff that I really like. I've been reduced to emailing a friend who lives in range of a good radio station and asking him for suggestions. Rather than pester him constantly in a fit of college-radio nostalgia, I decided to hit the Web 2.0 winners in the music category. I'm thinking that Last.fm might be what I need! I can look up and add bands that I'm interested in, add them to my playlist, and have songs automatically downloaded (they call it scrobbling - I'm not even going to venture a guess at why). They offer up a sort of "if you like these guys, try this band" feature - like novelist, but for music. Once I create my library of artists, I can play it - a radio station of stuff that I love, without all of the filler I can't stand! Then I can share the station with others. Wooo hooo!

**And before anyone feels the need to point out the obvious (oh, right, someone would have to be reading this for that to happen...), I know this doesn't have anything to do with my professional life. I may not be using this for work (I haven't tried using this from work, but I'm willing to place a bet for a year's salary that it's blocked there anyway), but if it makes me happier in my non-professional life, that's got to be a good thing, right? The whole "if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" thing. Good music=happy librarian=happy students. Viola!