If you do now Pandora you feel right at home when entering the FineTune website. Guests may use only part of the streaming radio services offered at the website but it is good enough for a rough overview of what FineTune has to offer. Just enter an artists name in the search field and FineTune will search for the artist that you have entered and related artists and start with the playback of songs that the search found.
The search reveals many albums of the artist as well and you can either add selected songs to a playlist that you can create after you registered an account or listen to the songs for 30 seconds. Adding playlists is rather easy. You click on the + symbol in front of the songs and it is added automatically to your playlist. There is a limit of three songs per artist and you need to create a complete playlist of 45 tracks to be able to listen to it.
This is a severe limitation of course but it seems that they have to comply with some restrictions to be able to offer the service at all. If you have added at least songs from three artists you may click the I’m lazy button which adds suggested songs automatically to your playlist to fill it.
Once it is filled to the brim you may listen to it. Once a playlist has been created it becomes public and everyone may listen to it and write comments about it. Instead of creating your own playlists you may also listen to playlists created by other members or so called stations which are playlists created by the finetune team.
You may even add playlists into your blog or myspace, code is provided to do so. I personally like this even more than Pandora but that is more a matter of taste.
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well, i did some searches and it hasn’t got as much to offer as pandora… especially for electronic music i had very few hits for even known artists.
I’m the product lead at finetune. I’m surprised you had a hard time finding something interesting to listen to… we have about 70 pages of artists tagged electronica 25 artists per page. At the moment our catalog is primarily major label… but even so the number of tracks available is enormous. It’s not everything by every artists, and we’re currently weak with Indie content… but really there is a ton of music and more is added each week.