Cover art and personal radio

Generally speaking I'm not a picky/fussy type, nor am I a perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination. So why is it that, not only do I insist on going to great lengths to ensure all my music on iTunes has suitable cover artwork, but I religiously use only the exact artwork that is used for my personal CD version of the album (assuming I have the CD version of course!).

To illustrate this very point, I've just this second spent far too long searching the internet for an image of the purple/green album cover for Midnight Oil's Scream in Blue [live] album (far left) rather than using the ever-so-slightly bluer version (left).

According to my source (Amazon) the purple/green version is used for the cassette album but I assure you it is definitely the one that adorns my CD and will now also feature on my iPod.

Moving away from my cover art issues, have you heard of LAUNCHcast? I hadn't until very recently and I've no idea how I missed it.

It's basically a free Yahoo service (although premium service is available for a small subscription) that will allow you to run your own personal radio station, configured to suit your music tastes based on your genre/artist/album preferences.

There's plenty of options to rate the music as you listen and therefore configure (and improve) your station's playlist the more you listen - essentially it's Pandora for the UK.

Admittedly I've not used it much yet and maybe I've missed lots of flaws, but so far it's the kind of service I've been trying to find for ages and, as usual, has existed all along.