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    "Why The Filter? Not so long ago half your record collection would sit in the attic, gathering dust. In 2006 it%u2019s more likely to be languishing in the dark recesses of your iPod or laptop, unplayed, unloved. We always think we%u2019ll get round to making great playlists and... more

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  • Reviewed by plastiqscott on Mar 19 2009, 7:53pm

    Is this the thing gabriel helped out on? sad if so, cus this thing sucks and gabriel is god.
  • Rated by remedyvisual on Mar 15 2009, 4:11am

    These things are always fucking awful. It's like they just query the HMV catalogue and spit out a couple of random items from the same marketing-invented genre as whatever you put in.Protip: if you want something like this to work, you can't just get MBAs, programmers and marketers involved. You have to get people who understand the culture you're indexing. That means paying a lot of scruffy individuals of all sorts, who base their whole personal identities on being able to name every artist of whatever sub-sub-subgenre they have chosen as their own personal domains, to sit down and generate an entire ontology of their own personal musical hierarchy.Unfortunately that's going to be really damned expensive and is ultimately trumped by the fact that people who like music tend to know a bunch of other people who like that music and who can already recommend stuff they would like.
  • Reviewed by ilmmad on Jan 21 2009, 7:53pm

    I like how they define Metallica as great music.
  • Rated by RichieDagger on Jan 11 2009, 8:55pm

    No listings for artists that aren't part of the mainstream. Lame.
  • Rated by TSUBFKAT on Nov 19 2008, 5:16am

    Might work well for some people. Not for me though. I suppose my tastes in music are already obscure enough ^^
  • Rated by bubbledumpster on Nov 19 2008, 3:13am

    HAHAHAHAHA! First, it didn't recognize Gangpol und Mit or Niwouinwouin. Fair enough, they're both pretty obscure. So, I put in Excepter, Crystal Castles, and MGMT, and set the slider all the way to "Lesser Known Music". It recommended Bruce Springsteen.
  • Rated by pushplay64 on Nov 18 2008, 7:10pm

    Nice concept if it really works at finding new music!
  • Rated by soyforbreakfast on Nov 09 2008, 6:20am

    I'll stick with last.fm, thanks.