Excuse me, mr. Internet? Can you play music that I like?

After we provided you with some hopefully interesting information about algorithms and love, we will move to some new topics.... ;-)

Nowadays it is borderline impossible to keep track of all the new artists and songs playing on the radio, let alone attempting to identify the genres: rock, pop, classic, pop rock, classic rock, indie rock, indie hip hop, indie pop rock classical r&b.........ok, ok - point proven.

I imagine that since you are reading this blog, you actually have some time to think about what to do tomorrow? Or how you will dress for Friday's party? Or whether or not to sleep tonight; if so, maybe you can manage to personally identify every artist and search for the album release date.  Also you may manage to customize playlists.

For those who don't have the time, you may be familiar with some of these awesome services (which have now been around for almost 10 years) - music streaming. These little angels manage to make everything simpler, faster, stronger, cooler and sometimes: free.

The basic idea for the garden variety internet user is to enjoy the music we love without having to invest a minute of our time coming up with our own mixes. So, the awesome tech guys took care of that and created a simple interface for us to enjoy all the repertoire available in their servers. Huge news for music nuts.

Apps such as Spotify, Deezer, iTunes Radio, Pandora; came up with DIFFERENT and very accurate algorithms that can actually keep track of your music tastes and start offering new options for you to enjoy and discover. Once you develop a certain history, the algorithm gets more accurate until they actually offer only tailor-made music for the master (that means for us). 

Pretty cool (and kind of old news to be honest), the streaming services are having one of the most exciting battles to survive and become #1, but there is actually enough market to all of them. Spotify seems to be leading this race, innovating in all the things, improving and evolving day by day. 

Spotify seems to understand that music is more than "cool" or "harmony"; it's not only image and nice beat.  By this principle, the app offers an special tab called "explore." Once you choose an option they give you a variety of playlists, albums and possible artists that are of your tastes, according to your like and dislike history.

Feel free to try all these services, you probably will end up loving one of them. Cheers!

Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/

iTunes Music Radio: http://www.apple.com/music/radio/

Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/

Pandora: http://www.pandora.com/

Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/sulp

Tidal: http://tidal.com/

Rdio:http://www.rdio.com/home/

NPR: http://www.npr.org/music/radio

The FuegoBot Team