You are mistaken about excluding label artists. It's only got 200 tracks (that I know of) from label artists but that's because they appear to be slightly harder to find. I don't exclude anything from iRATE. If I know of *any* website which lists music (mp3s only at this stage) then I will list it on iRATE. Time permitting.
The aim of iRATE is to provide people with the music that they like *without prejudice*. I think that music should be judged on it's own merit alone. That is why iRATE has no concept of genre.
The reason I created iRATE is because I can't find any radio stations in Western Australia which play the music I want to listen to. Now I have all the music I could ever want and I'm also starting to have a successful free software project.
Really it's just an experiment to see if collaborative filtering would work to replace radio stations. I find it works remarkably well, as long as you can find someone else on the system who has similar enough tastes in music to you.
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You are mistaken about excluding label artists. It's only got 200 tracks (that I know of) from label artists but that's because they appear to be slightly harder to find. I don't exclude anything from iRATE. If I know of *any* website which lists music (mp3s only at this stage) then I will list it on iRATE. Time permitting.
The aim of iRATE is to provide people with the music that they like *without prejudice*. I think that music should be judged on it's own merit alone. That is why iRATE has no concept of genre.
The reason I created iRATE is because I can't find any radio stations in Western Australia which play the music I want to listen to. Now I have all the music I could ever want and I'm also starting to have a successful free software project.
Really it's just an experiment to see if collaborative filtering would work to replace radio stations. I find it works remarkably well, as long as you can find someone else on the system who has similar enough tastes in music to you.