Discover new music at TagWorld

I logged into my Tagworld page today, for the first time in a couple of months. I’m not a big user of Tagworld, mostly because my friends are already established on Myspace and they want switch. I think that has something to do with the fact that the majority of my friends are over 30 and spend to much time in alcohol fueled stupor. Anyway, like I was saying, I logged into Tagworld today and noticed that they have a “Music Discover” player, in addition to their standard music player. The music discover player, I guess, could be compared to Pandora, in theory. However, I think it’s lacking considerably by comparison. I’m an almost daily listener of Pandora and am amazed every time at how accurate Pandora is. With the Tagworld engine it didn’t even recognize half of the bands/artists that I typed in. You would think they would know who Arcade Fire is, but no. Hopefully they’ll get better as they grow. It might be that they’re only using music from artists that have pages on Tagworld. I’ll dig a little deeper and find out.

The Tagworld Music Dicovery player does have some cool features however, for instance they have in their preferences a slider tool to balance whether the music that they play is weighted towards unsigned, independent or major artists. Or, you can hear more music rated by yourself, friends or the Tagworld community. The last preference that I think may be the coolest is that you can specify for the music player to discover more music based on your zip code. So, in theory, you’ll have a good chance to discover local music that you might like. Another feature that I like is that you can see what Artist is cuing up next. This way you have a chance to skip the cuing selection while your current selection is still playing. Overall, I think the Tagworld Music Discovery player is off to a good start. If they can add more artists then I might have to give them equal playing time, to Pandora.

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