Ryan MacMillan

Via those nice chaps at Music Choice, something that I’d missed from last year - an extension of Musicplasma that allows you to find new music via genres and moods - and then via a map of the relationships between artists.

Not quite sure why this one is resurfacing. I liked Musicplasma, but after a bit of staring at the pretty patterns, I never returned. I don’t feel any more affinity to it now. Between Pandora and last.fm (and I tend towards using the former), I’m fine thanks very much. And I’ve never liked searching by genre. Not because I’m eclectic - in fact the opposite. I like my rock, pop and schalger middle-of-the-road, thank you very much.

Intriguingly, a quick review of other people’s comments (Visual Complexity, Lifehacker) seem almost entirely positive. But I’m wondering how many people who blogged about it are still using it.

However, it is beautifully simple - got to give it that.