FineTune: An outstanding alternative to Pandora & Last.fm

Let me just point out that i'm not in any way going to throw any criticism at Pandora or Last.fm, as i am utterly happy with their function as å webplayer based on criterias set by the user (play simular songs to the defined song or artist). FineTune is not directly simular to the other two webservices, but still reminds me of them. But where the others tells you to define a song or artist and then plays songs simular to them, FineTune lets you create a playlist from their database of some 2 million songs (and growing), listen to them and even share them. This makes FineTune a great webservice for creating playlists for diverse occations (like a partymix), or you can use on of the many playlists already avaliable. You can do this without concern yourself with downloading songs or store them. Just make the list and play them (streaming). Works perfectly!

A few limits, though. You can only include to songs from each artist in each playlist, and you have to fill you playlist with 45 songs before you are allowed to play the songs (i don't know why). You can browse all songs, but you are only allowed a preview of the songs when played directly from the browsing-location. You get to listen to the whole song if you include it in a playlist, though.

All in all i really feel there is a place for FineTune, and thats right up there, right beside Pandora and Last.fm. Why? Because it is simular to them, but still very different. And that makes FineTune a webservice that easy can coexist with the other two services instead of just being another Pandora or Last.fm. This one can stand on its own.

Finally, a little tips for the ones that wants to create their own playlists. The logic of the create-a-playlist-fase is quite obvious but if theres any doubt about how to do this Go2web2 have but together a nice guide for you.