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I've had great success with Gnoosic

Don't forget the simpler Gnoosic, the music section of the Global Network of Dreams.

I have doubts the system will be useful for telling one what other stuff to listen to, unlike this system: http://www.gnoosic.com/ . You can plug in U2, Radiohead, and Coldplay, and find other boring and pretentious music to listen to! So!

'...how do I actually filter the stuff, how do I really get to the stuff that means something to me? And that you can only do with an intelligent filter systems... It's something that interests me a lot because you have limited time, and you don't want, like with e-mail, you don't want all of the junk, you just want the bits that have some meaning for you.'

This statement, made by Gabriel in the article, reminded me of a project called gnoosic (part of gnod) that I haven't thought of in some time. The premise is that people enter artists they like or do not and gnoosic creates spatialy represented relationships based on the preferences of a group of people.

http://www.gnoosic.com/ asks you for tree artists you like. Then based on what other people said in their list it will recommend some artists to you.

I've had some success with gnod before. It works best if you put 3 artists of the same genre in the "favorite artists" boxes or you can get some crazy results. I've found quite a few bands that I like with the combo of this and Kazaa.

It can be hard to find bands on smaller labels, especially when most of your friends don't listen to the same music you do, but this and a local cd shop have been good tools.

like this. it's a really cool engine somebody built that takes information on what you like and suggests other bands. definitely click the "related bands" link under the suggested band it pops out. i realize that this is probably dooming somebody's server to a firey death, but maybe go back in a week or so. ;-) take what it suggests and pop over to shoutcast to look for stations streaming those (sorts of) bands. if you like what you hear, go to your local independent CD shop and buy it, making sure to tell them "yeah, I heard this music online from an mp3 station and now i want to buy it from you". most of the record store owners I know think that mp3s are satan incarnate, helping them see the benefits of fluid, low/no-barrier music preview and discovery would be a good thing long term...

Well, while looking for info about Massive Attack , I came upon this.. not sure if it really works, try it and see - gnod.