Although I am always trying to find new songs and musicians that I may like, I invariably get tired and go for the ones my brain already assimilated, specially when I want just background music while I'm doing something else. That's when Pandora, an Internet radio station, comes handy -- I can choose the music I want and it finds songs with similar styles. It asks you to vote (yes or no) on the songs so it can build a "private catalog" with your preferred style(s), using what they call the "music genome". Most of the times it does a perfect job, and now it is the only Internet radio station I use.
Among the features it offers: it shows the album cover containing the song currently being (or recently) played; you can share your "station" and find other shared ones, and you can send them to friends; you can listen to it on a mobile device for some carriers; you can bookmark songs or artists, and even print someone else's list and use RSS to get updates to it; and you can do searches for songs.
As for a use for it on a library, I guess one could find new artists and songs and build a list of prospective CDs to borrow. The album cover image can help when browsing through the actual CDs to look for a specific song.
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