YouTube, the planet's leading video website, is adding a new feature catering to music video fans. YouTube calls it the “Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool.”

Type the name of your favorite artist and YouTube will give you a list of the performer's videos along with other, similar artists—it’s an attempt to create a video version of Pandora, which serious music heads know as the front-end of the ambitious music genome project  Over at Download Squad, Jason Clarke noticed how YouTube groups their related artist section while trying to create his own playlist.

“The related artists list seems somewhat arbitrary; when I searched for Poison (hey, don't judge me), it came up with a list that included Bell Biv DeVoe, Beyoncé, The Prodigy, and at least 7 bands featuring the word "Poison" somewhere in their name. Looking a little deeper, the random-seeming artists all have a song with the word "Poison" in them. So clearly YouTube is using simple word matching instead of any sort of sophisticated algorithm to choose related artists.”

I haven't ran into Clarke's problem yet probably because I tried it with more well known artists like Beyonce and Eminem. I'm not sure if YouTube's Disco page works better with big acts, but so far I can tell I'm going to like it more than Pandora. This new tool allows you to jump around in the playlist, unlike Pandora. I like the mixtape feature because it lets you see the line up of what you're going to watch. You can also shuffle your playlist, allowing you to have more control over your viewing experience. I know I’ll be using this tool quite often.