Pandora: This time, it’s okay to open the box.
I’d like to take this opportunity to second ‘The Captain’s’ suggestions (see link at right) that you should go try pandora.com and create your own nifty radio station. It’s neat. A bit like owning 1,000,000 CD’s you could never otherwise afford. A bit like having a psychic try to read your mind–Pandora knows what you want!!!! You’ll be asked some minimal login info, but it’s worth it.
May 17th, 2006 at 11:13 am
I’m checking it out here at work, where I don’t have any music to listen to. So far it seems cool. Your link is broken by the way.
May 17th, 2006 at 11:39 am
the link looks ok to me
To explain Pandora, I’ve been using the analogy of baking a cake (analogies usually suck).
I tell Pandora I want a Pineapple Upside Down Cake!
Pandora has all the right ingredients, it’s just not quite sure how to make that specific cake.
So it keeps adding ingredients and letting you try it’s cake, so with each ingredient you tell Pandora yes (getting closer) or no (that’s sick, ketchup in my cake!).
It’s a fun experiment and brings hours of (free music) joy to my day!
Things I’ve noticed: if you tell it you like a band it may open a huge tree (100+) of similar or way different styles… if you tell it songs you like it’s selection is a bit tighter on styles… also it’s kind of hard to treat your stations like genres… think of them more as moods, because Pandora considers beats / tempo also.
The feeling I got from this was the same feeling I got when I first used Google Earth! Free stuff can be cool!
May 17th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
yeah, i like it too.
May 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I had seen this a little while ago and fiddled with it a little but I’ll try it out more to get things narrowed down to my tastes.
May 17th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Here’s a guide from their blog:
http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2006/05/care_and_feedin.html