A while back Yahoo upgraded its instant messenger to include what they call LaunchCast radio. I found it really cool. You could customize the "my radio station" with your preferences and as it played songs, you could rank them or rank the artist or album so that it knows next time whether play it again. So I put in some preferences - house, progressive, 80s, pop, some folksy and alternative stuff. If something comes on that you don't like you can rank the song "never play again" and then hit the skip button. Here's the thing though. You get a limited number of song skips unless you pay for LaunchCast PLUS. Ah, always a catch. For a while I found the thing pretty much played stuff I liked. But recently it's been pumping out everything I hate - rap, really horrible recent hip hop garbage and, for the love of whatever god is out there, country. Guess their goal for the new year was to increase sales of LaunchCast PLUS. Those bastards.
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I like Launchcast too. There's limited number of Genre's to choose from. I always listen to the adult alternative and Quiet storm. They also have limited videos you can search and watch.
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