Digital Home Thoughts: Stumble To Your Music Preference

"StumbleAudio is a social music discovery site with a mission is to help you find music by new and exciting artists that you would like, rather than play or sell you the hits by known artists that you are “expected” to love. Our catalog has over 2,000,000 tracks by over 120,000 artists ready to be played in full length, high quality, free of charge. StumbleAudio started to build its recommendation engine by importing massive anonymous data of saved favorites, music preferences and buying patterns from several online download and actual music CD stores. As you use StumbleAudio the system learns from your “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” and constantly adjusts the music offered to your liking. We are committed to making our recommendation engine more accurate and relevant as we collect more real use data. We will also soon have various social network applications and widgets to share you music discoveries with your friends on Facebook, MySpace, Blogger and others."

It really is true that there are tons of music recommendation engines out there. I have been using Pandora or Last.fm so far. However, this mainly works with artists signed up with major labels. StumbleAudio connects you with a number of independent artists as well. The web service uses a music recommendation image engine much like the other sites. But all of the artists are independent acts, which means they're either unsigned or signed to smaller labels. Also, it is really easy to try and see how the service works, and it seemed to do a pretty good job. I tried 'U2' and got several artists that I had never heard of before but sounded quite nice. Give it a try.