Anywhere.fm

I enjoy finding music that I like. This is probably true for everyone, but it is probably easier for most. I say this because it is very hard to find really good Jazz-Electronic fusion, or Classical-Electronic fusion. Usually all that you end up with is crappy Techno music over well-known bits of Beethoven or Miles Davis. Every once in awhile I will find something that suits my tastes, but those occurrences are few and far between, compounded by the fact that the music that I am enthralled with is stuff that almost nobody else is interested in, and thus refuses to torrent. This means that I would have buy the CD, if only I weren't so broke, so I am left with unending lists of music that I have to buy at some later date when I have "the moneys."

Often I find things that spark momentary explosions in my catalog of artists whose music I identify with. Pandora in particular is one resource that I have pretty much exhausted over the past few years, as the service now plays primarily repeats, which is useless to me (why do I have my own catalog, anyway?) So I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon Anywhere.fm.

This is a community radio service, very simple in its design, and very robust in its application. The essence of the idea is that you make a profile, upload whatever music that you want, and then browse to find people who have similar tastes. Thus far I have four tracks on my profile, and have a number of people that I am tracking, as they have one taste or another that piques my fancy. There is no real social interaction, aside from seeing how many times a certain song or playlist has been viewed/listed to, so it is perfect for antisocial types such as myself. You have no control over others' libraries, you can't queue up songs, all you can do is pick a playlist and hope for the best. I find this absolutely fantastic. I have found more new music that I love in the past day and a half than I have in the preceding year.

Check it out, it's completely free, and there is a bunch of great music to be found in there. As always, my username is LeviticusMky, look me up.

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