Pandora and Last FM

Today in class was a fun and interesting one. We went down to the computer lab and used the computers to look at two free music sites that anyone can go onto and use. The first that we went on to was a site called Pandora. Pandora is a music site that allows you to type in the exact song you want to hear and it will bring it up for you and talk about the history of the song and band that you are listening to. The coolest thing that the Pandora site has to offer is when you do type in and pull up the song that you want to listen to it will give you a number of different songs and bands that are alike to the band that you brought up and it will create a "radio station" the plays only those songs that you approve of and will save your various stations to the profile that you created. The next web site that we look at was one called Last FM. Last FM isnt entirely different from Pandora. The major difference in the two websites is that Last FM also plays the song you typed in's music video. It will search the web or its database for your song and its official music video. I think that both of these web sites are amazing for giving out such a service for free, but if I had to pick one of these to use the most it would be Pandora because it allows you to create stations for yourself and at the same time shows you other music that is simalar to the music you chose to listen to and thinks you would like so you can find new music to listen to as well. The class today was extremely fun and would love to do things like this in the near future.