Pandora's box

by rrusczyk, Jun 30, 2009, 1:24 AM

Thank you very much for introducing me to Pandora. My iTunes is going to get a lot less playtime...

Why didn't I know about this earlier?

Comment

6 Comments

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

Some tips:

* you can only click the next song button so many times before they restrict you due to their license. Instead have a few stations and switch between them. Eventually if you switch enough you'll find a song you like and/or one of the other stations will go to the next song when you come back to it.

* stations generally will play the same set of songs (pretty decent size, but still you'll notice after listening to a station for...a while). So you'll find that you may want to switch stations now and then.

Man, would have told you about it but I didn't know you didn't know about it! Yeah, it's a great resource. Sometimes you really just want to hear a particular song so google.com/video or iTunes comes in handy.

by joml88, Jun 30, 2009, 4:12 AM

Report

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

My problem with Pandora has always been the size of the library - once I used it for long enough that I had a settled channel, it was cycling through only 50 songs or so. You might not have that problem as your taste is probably different.

by worthawholebean, Jun 30, 2009, 4:13 AM

Report

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

Yeah, that's why I was saying to get a few different channels. Kinda interesting how two artists or songs that I think are similar turn up channels with very little overlap. Clearly there's more to be desired with Pandora, but it's one of the sweetest _legal_ options out there. Zero cost, low rate of ads, generally plays the songs you want to hear, portable (all I have to do is bring ear plugs to work and I'm set).

by joml88, Jun 30, 2009, 12:44 PM

Report

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

Yeah, I already have a bunch of channels with all sorts of different stuff. I don't listen to any of them enough to repeat, yet.

by rrusczyk, Jun 30, 2009, 2:41 PM

Report

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

I loved Pandora. I miss it here with dial-up. Didn't know you didn't know about it!

by inscrutableroot, Jul 1, 2009, 2:20 PM

Report

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

Pandora's great for finding similar styled music, however, if you're just looking for a way to loop an endless playlist, Songza.com is the way to go. Basically, it streams music from Youtube and iMeem with a single search. By creating a free account you can build a playlist, shuffle, etc.

by n0vad3m0n, Jul 2, 2009, 2:03 AM