Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Who said Pandora was trouble?
I just wanted to give everyone a little heads up to a GREAT music website that breaks the mold into a million little pieces. The site is Pandora (http://www.pandora.com/). This site is phenomenal as it provides the listener to listen to their type of music. Key word here is type.
You see, with this site, you basically create your own station, based on a song or artist that you particularly like. Then the system goes ahead starts playing one song after another of similar type of songs. The selection in most cases is uncanny... its really that good. The best part is how you can learn of other artists with similar musical styles as the ones you enjoy.
So what if there is a song I don't like, you ask. Well there is a rating system in place.. and its simple. Thumbs up = I like this song, find more like this one too; and Thumbs down = not liking this all that much, skip to the next selection. Its that simple.
What makes it better, is that its also web-based, which means you can always have your 'radio stations' follow you, and play them from any computer. Just log in and done.
For those who like a 'real' program, someone has hacked together a fabulous little program that has the player and sits on your taskbar. Brilliant! Oh yeah, you can get that here: http://openpandora.blogspot.com/
Enjoy and Rock on!
¶ 10/03/2006 04:56:00 PM
