First, go to Pandora and register. It’s a web-based music player through which you can create your own stations based on your favorite artists. While playing the songs, you can rate the music, thus allowing Pandora to learn your musical tastes and play more music it thinks you’ll like. It’s fairly addictive.

Once registered, go to OpenPandora and download the desktop client. It adds some quite nice functionality, like a mini-player and the unnecessary use of a browser to listen to the music. You can even look up lyrics. It’s great.