I'd love to chat more about music etc. You can shoot me an email at hn at jacobobryant.com. Definitely a pain point I feel as well, though another reason I switched to Findka is because I figured it would be a lot easier to bootstrap it. The music industry is pretty tough to get started in.

As far as the current music recommendations; it's nothing intelligent. Just pure collaborative filtering, i.e. it has no understanding of "this is a rock song" or "this song is from 2005" or even "this is a song". Right now, the algorithm just sees a bunch of URLs and their rating data. I am interested in making the algorithm more intelligent over time though.

Could the site not resolving be an issue with your network? It Works For Me, and I'm getting plenty of traffic right now.