The music hitchhikers guide to pandora

Hi all,

So, I was talking to one of my friends about things in general and music came up in our little smalltalk over AIM. One thing that disturbed me was that he was not familiar with Pandora. I thought Pandora had existed long enough that writing a post on it would be worthless, but I have changed my mind.

Pandora is much like a radio, where you have some influence on the kind of songs you get to listen to, but not absolute power to pick any one song that you want to hear at the moment. Now, I know that sounds lame. But the beauty of Pandora is that it forces you to listen to new and upcoming artists that you may have never heard about or listened to before.

For example, you can create a station called "Linkin Park". Now when you select that station to play, it will pick among its database songs that are by Linking Park and songs that other artists whose musical characteristics match closely to that of Linkin Park's music. That is why Pandora refers to itself as the Music Genome Project. I personally have found some great artists this way. The streaming and interface is extremely well done. It does allow you to pay money to buy the song, but never in way forces you to do so.

If you create an account, it keeps track of songs you like and plays them more often. I have had an account for a quite a while now, and I have experienced no spam or ads from them whatsoever.

So, guys its 10/10 from me to them. Hit them up: www.pandora.com