Thread: Pandora Radio

I don't exactly know if this belongs here, but it is one of the finer things out on the internet.

If you haven't heard of it, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Pandora.com

It is an internet radio station that you can program just by entering either a favorite artist or song. The nice people who run this website have created something called the "Music Genome" which is a data base of recorded music that makes it possible to play the music you'll like based on what you request.

You can create any number of stations for yourself and each station can have more than one artist or song as a seed. As the station plays, you can tweak it. If it plays a song you don't like, you can give it the thumbs down. It won't play that song again and it will shy away from other songs that are too much like it. Conversely, songs that you like, you can give a thumbs up to.

It's great for me because it will play music from artists I've never heard of who I'm a big fan of now.

I have a Louis Jordan/Fats Waller station that is my favorite. I have a Leon Redbone station I like too. When I feel like some good Rock, it's Van Morrison or Creedence Radio.

Check it out, it's great.

+1

I have Pandora running almost 100% of the time I'm at the computer. Just make sure you thumb up and thumb down the music you like and don't like. One problem with Pandora though is that it sometimes gets stuck playing the same music over and over. The way to get around this is to press the "guide us" button and tell it not to play the song for 30 days. Another trick is when there's a song that fits the type that you want to listen to but just don't like, thumb it up then have it not play for 30 days.

+1, if I'm at work Pandora is on. And their new(ish) stand-alone app works great.

Nice, I was thinking "That sounds cool!" When I get there I'm already logged in with 3 stations made...

I find new things every day!

I love pandora! It's my preferred method of listening to music during the day.

I've heard about this before, and I've finally decided to give it a shot. Thanks for the reminder; I hope it works out...or else I'll have to...stop using it?