Are you a Last.fm addict? Does Pandora suck? Do you want to be in charge of your music discovery or should Charts do the job for you?

Music Discovery is a hot topic. Here’s a selection of some recent interesting articles:

Slacker vs Pandora -Bob Lefsetz - Fine music lovers as Lefsetz hit a wall with Pandora’s “dummy” recommendations. Slacker fine-tuning features seem a better fit for this sophisticated audience. Nice read!

Why The Music Industry Still Needs Taste-Makers – Creative Deconstruction - We’re all drinking the KoolAid of social media and machine learning filtering systems. But the average user still needs human/human-like taste-makers to tell him/her what’s worth listening to. The author has a point and the article deserves a bookmark!

The Future of Music is Filtered – Jaggernaut Brew An overview of all the possible ways to filter and manipulate the discovery (human-brand-social-machine learning). Food for thoughts.

Music Explaura: Exploration and Discovery in Action – Information Retrieval Gupf Explaura ia a fascinating promise…but I beleive both Creative Deconstruction and Jaggernaut Brew are right when they point to the need for “branded” /human filters (the taste-makers)

Recommendation Systems: Where Are We Now, Where Do We Need to Go? For a more scientific analysis of the status of the industry

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New Companies who are working on it from a different angle

-WeAreHunted – Social Music Discovery

We Are Hunted Presents the 99 Most Popular Songs on Twitter – ReadWriteWeb

Forget Billboard. We Are Hunted Charts The Music People Are Listening To On The Web – TechCrunch

-Twitter -140 chars Media Discovery and Marketing Platform

TWEET CHILD O’ MINE How Twitter Is Changing Music – Billboard Interesting post reporting on the effect on music sales of being discovered via Twitter

5 Twitter Tips For Bands From Co-Founder Biz Stone – Billboard Nothing too revolutionary, but shows the interest of the company in positioning itself as a media discovery and marketing platform

10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter – Mashable

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Companies who are specialized at creating music recommendations, recently in the news

Mufin the sound driven music recommendation engine announced new features including an iTunes plug-in and full video playlist functions on the mufin site. More on their blog

EchoNest recently chosen by Spotify