Stumble Audio

If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks.   Warning: it is a site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.


You must sign up for an account (free).   It works similar to stumble upon in that you can filter on you like.  Once you are on a , it shows you the cover , and you can check out the other tracks in the set.   You can vote up or down a and there is a share link for linking to a .   There are also buttons to purchase and the tracks that you really like.  I’m told the gets paid for every , a for me, because I absolutely will not patronize any website that exploits artists.

Because of this last, I will have it playing in the background constantly.  Now, what really interests me is whether it can learn and adapt or not.  For example, in the “” there is all kinds of stuff, mixed in with good stuff.*   The includes , and soft telenovela .    There is also good stuff.   After I stumble screaming away from  and/or thumb down a I hate, will it stop sending me that and send me a higher percentage of the good stuff?  Time will tell.


*some is and can be objectively shown to be so.   It is  the , cranked out by the by hacks, the food of .  As with literature and food, there are plenty of people who LIKE this ; otherwise it would not be popular.  If you like the that’s OK with me–I wouldn’t try to tell you what to like.   But please be aware that overproduced where the can’t sing, the can’t ,  everything is digitally repaired,  the is unwavering boring  and mechanical 4, the chord structure is and repetitive, and the only thing going for it is the ,  is, in fact, .

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