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...means to try to get his music on "mainstream" country radio stations. "When we made the Ram Radio top ten list of 2006, people would come up to me at shows and say 'I bought your album on the Internet after hearing your music on Last.fm or Pandora' or many other of these services," Allcorn said, referring to several webcasters. "I like getting paid and I like royalty payments," Allcorn said. "But if the only radio that plays my music goes bankrupt, they won't be playing my music or paying me royalties...
Each customizable radio service has its own way of assessing what you like. Pandora refers to its database of more than 600,000 major-label songs--all of which have been categorized by musical attributes such as voice, tonality and chromatic harmony--then serves up similar-sounding tracks. That can get a little monotonous, so Slacker, which launched in March, uses professional DJs to dream up constantly changing playlists that give you more variety while still adhering to your basic tastes. If you ask for Gwen Stefani, for example, you'll also get the Cars, Talking Heads and Bj?...
Personalized radio isn't just a quirky idea for tech geeks to fawn over and venture capitalists to gamble their millions on. Although its revenues are minuscule compared with the $21 billion of the terrestrial-radio industry, more than 4 million people in the U.S. visit Pandora and Last.fm each month, according to comScore Media Metrix. That makes them the fifth and sixth most popular Web radio stations in the country. "It's the ideal middle ground between having an intact experience and being in control of what you receive," says Last.fm co-founder Martin Stiksel...
...biggest problem with Internet radio is that it's stuck on the PC," says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "What you really want is this device you can play in your living room, in your car or in the desert walking around." In addition to Sprint's move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and Slacker plans to sell a $150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its website...
...Some technologically savvy entrepreneurs have started to expand traditional notions of radio in radical ways. Tapping into the desire for unique programming without a constant cycle of top 40 hits, Pandora has brought the internet’s flexibility to radio for more than a year now. Pandora creates personal radio stations for each listener based on their taste. It’s the closest thing to a personal DJ, mixing up old favorites with new jams that make it nearly impossible to tune...