Tribal Instinct

For those of you that don't know what this is - it is a free service from the Music Genome Project in which you enter an artist or song and they will develop a "radio channel" for you to listen to based on the qualities of the music you enter. You can thumbs up/down the music they play to make each channel more accurate.

Its probably one of the best streaming music sites I've used, and it is really accurate in playing songs that match your tastes. I've found it a pretty good way to find new music I haven't heard before.

pandora.com

Seconded!

used to be able to hack that monkey and download the mp3's ... they caught on

Pandora's Jar: http://lifehacker.com/software/pandora/ ... 219114.php

does it for you =)

Aol Radio Beta is also very good. It's powered by XM and has about 200 stations. If you have VCE, AOL radio beta has a plugin for the media center complete with a gui interface. I use it myself. I push it through a sony bravia 5.1 system and the quality is way beyond what you expect for streaming music.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/ ... olbeta.jpg