Brilliant Pandora
People always ask me what I'm in to at the moment. Sometimes it's hard to explain. For example if the person isn't likely to be familiar with, say, AJAX. But this one is easy.
Right now I'm hooked on Pandora. This brilliant service helps you "find music you'll love".
You start by choosing a song or an artist. Pandora then creates a "radio station" based on your choice, playing songs that it thinks you'd like.
Ever the skeptic, I tried it out today and... yepp, it certainly lives up to its strapline! Pandora keeps feeding me songs, I say wheter I like them or not, and already after about 45 minutes I have a brilliant well tuned (yes pun intended) "radio station" based on my initial choice (Counting Crows).
What else? Via the menu system I can jump over to the iTunes store and buy the song while I'm listening to it (yes, the whole song). I can add it to my favorites page, or give it the thumb's down.
The only drawback, and this is due to licensing agreements, I can't skip more than a certain number of songs per hour (10). Then again, every song so far (with only two exceptions) has been v v good.
If you want to take Pandora outside your computer, get a Squeeze Box from Slim Devices. According to SiliconBeat "Beginning next week, the Squeezebox will do something no other hi-fi component can do: it will hook into Pandora...".
Go create your radio station, and share it with me (jorvet AT gmail DOT com) when you're done. If you don't like Pandora, try last.fm.
Right now I'm hooked on Pandora. This brilliant service helps you "find music you'll love".
You start by choosing a song or an artist. Pandora then creates a "radio station" based on your choice, playing songs that it thinks you'd like.
Ever the skeptic, I tried it out today and... yepp, it certainly lives up to its strapline! Pandora keeps feeding me songs, I say wheter I like them or not, and already after about 45 minutes I have a brilliant well tuned (yes pun intended) "radio station" based on my initial choice (Counting Crows).
What else? Via the menu system I can jump over to the iTunes store and buy the song while I'm listening to it (yes, the whole song). I can add it to my favorites page, or give it the thumb's down.
The only drawback, and this is due to licensing agreements, I can't skip more than a certain number of songs per hour (10). Then again, every song so far (with only two exceptions) has been v v good.
If you want to take Pandora outside your computer, get a Squeeze Box from Slim Devices. According to SiliconBeat "Beginning next week, the Squeezebox will do something no other hi-fi component can do: it will hook into Pandora...".
Go create your radio station, and share it with me (jorvet AT gmail DOT com) when you're done. If you don't like Pandora, try last.fm.
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