As I write this, I'm listening to Christmas music on Pandora. It turns out to be a very good way to listen to a good variety of Christmas music you don't own by artists you may or may not have been exposed to. I'm listening to a station called Folk Holidays. There are a number of Christmas or holiday stations. This one has a lot of acoustic guitar instrumentals but also has music with vocals. Right now James Taylor is singing "Go Tell It on the Mountain".
If you're not familiar with the way Pandora works, you can pick one of the predefined stations or simply pick an artist or song that you like. If you pick an artist or a song, it will build a station around that artist or song, playing songs that it thinks you will like. These songs are similar to what you originally picked based on a large number of properties about those songs. As it plays the songs you can give each one a thumbs-up or thumbs-down and it will learn more precisely what you like and what you don't. It's actually quite amazing and is a great way to discover artists you aren't familiar with.
The only bad thing about Pandora is that you have to listen to it on your computer...or on an iPhone.
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