It appears that YouTube is taking a swing at the music discovery and playlist suggestion thing with Disco, it’s own Discovery Project. Sound a bit like Pandora Radio? It’s along the same idea but not yet quite as slick yet. It does however have some points I would prefer to Pandora.
Upon arrival you are hit with a big search box. Enter the desired band name here and you will get a playlist suggested music playlist with various similar artists (but more of the searched artist), a list of the links to the searched band’s videos on YouTube that you can add to the playlist and more tunes from the similar artists you can add to the playlist.
A search for Ratt came up with a live concert video of “Round and Round” and a playlist including AC/DC, Guns and Roses, Skid Row, Motley Crue, and Great White. There were more artists like Poison, Faster Pussycat, and L.A. Guns over in the related artists.
Remember when I mentioned it wasn’t as slick as Pandora Radio? Well, it isn’t as pretty. There is the same element of surprise when you wait to see what the next song will be. There are some things that are better. Like control over which songs are in the playlist (you can eliminate a tune by throwing a quick click on a box) once it is formed. As far as I can tell it is not going to tell you at some point in the month that you used up your listens for that time period.
Overall I think it is something I will use when I’m in the mood for a certain music (The Joe Bonamassa search results were interesting).
I raise a Zippo lighter to Mashable for bringing this to my attention. \m/
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