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Traction Radio

Traction is a small piece of software that plays music in the background of PC games. Created by Stickman entertainment the radio plays five different kinds of genres: Classics, Remixes, Rock, Electronic, and Hip-Hop. Each channel is divided into a number of “levels”, which play subgenres. The client is currently in beta 1.0 status.

Pandora Radio

Pandora was created by the Music Genome Project and is an online music recommendation site. Users enter the name of a song or an artist that they like and Pandora responds with other songs that belong in the same genre and are very similar to the original song or style of music entered by the user. Users provide feedback on the music that Pandora recommends which it takes into account automatically. Pandora identifies the music that you are listening to by focus traits such as rhythm syncopation, key tonality and vocal harmonies. Pandora was forced to restrict traffic to US IPs only because of pressure from the copyright holders of the music.

Live365

Live365 is an Internet radio network where members can create their own online radio station or listen to other Live365 broadcasters' online stations. In October 2006 there were over 6,500 active radio stations with many more created every day. Most of the people that created the stations are music enthusiasts and play music of their taste. Live365 was created in July 1999 by Andy Volk who was at the time an employee of Nanocosm Inc. who was just trying out the new Shoutcast technology in his free time. Live365 grew to be a great success in a very short time in 2001 averaging over 2,000 radio stations.

Last.fm

Last.fm just like Pandora uses a recommendation system but instead of asking the user what they want to listen to it records what the user listens to on their station and makes recommendations based on the history of the user. Last.fm was purchased by CBS on the 30th of May 2007 for 280 million dollars. Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm's music library, and are able to listen to some individual tracks on demand, or download tracks if the rightsholder has previously authorised it. Registration is required to acquire a profile but is not necessary to view any part of the site or to listen to radio stations.

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