Word of mouth is a good starting point, but I don’t believe it scales. This is a problem I’ve faced in the last week or so since I launched the v4v segment. I’m grateful to folks like you who have given me great recommendations, but there’s got to be a more automated way that mimics word-of-mouth and relying on people whose music tastes you trust. Anyway, that’s enough talking about the problem from me. Time to build and test the hypothesis