Last year, I posted about using Slimserver to stream your music collection from home to work (or anywhere). Slim Devices developed the Slimserver application mainly to interact with their Squeezebox devices, but were kind enough to allow anyone to use the app to try it out without owning any products. Back then, I wasn’t too interested in owning one of their devices beyond a possible convenience factor.
But recently, Slim Devices has incorporated Pandora service into the Squeezebox. This makes it much more attractive. Pandora is a web-based music service that utilizes the Music Genome Project. Basically, you tell Pandora what kind of music you like, and based on thousands of other people’s ratings and connections, Pandora will choose and play music that you will also (probably) enjoy. Last.fm operates on the same kind of principle, with added tag support. I have used Pandora in the past and it works very well. I use Last.fm more often because I appreciate the interface and tagging more, but both are functionally very similar.
With this merging of the two technologies, the Squeezebox moves beyond a convenience choice and becomes alot more droolworthy.
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