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1. christen Says:
   September 16th, 2007 at 9:51 am

   Yea, you found a scrobbler for Pandora to Last.fm. Pandora stations are so much more serendipitous than Last.fm – digging up songs and artists I have never heard of before consistently. To me, this is valuable. Scrobbling those songs to my Last.fm profile, aside from making me seem like a more eclectic listener, allow for a longer lasting artifact of what Pandora is playing. What WAS the name of that song I listened to before lunch?

2. chris Says:
   September 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am

   It’s funny you say that because I find it to be exactly the opposite– Pandora is very predictable compared to Last.FM. As I would expect given that people’s taste is much more idiosyncratic than the encyclopedia of attributes that Pandora uses. I tested again– let Pandora run most of the day yesterday and in about four hours it played ONE song I hadn’t heard before… and most of them I actually have in my library.

   With Last.FM I browse my neighbors and recommendations and 2-3 out of the first 5 songs will be something new. Even the Last.FM radio is more varied when I listen to it to Pandora. That’s why I don’t listen to Pandora except for background music purposes, but I noted this because I know a lot of people listen to it all the time.

3. christen Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 10:20 am

   Time for an experiment.