Has anyone heard of Pandora Internet Radio?

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#1 Has anyone heard of Pandora Internet Radio?

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My friend told me about this while we were discussing math in music earlier.

It's an internet radio thing and it's free. What makes this awesome is it reads your mind or something. Not really. You create your own stations, based on one artist or whatever, and it plays not only songs by who you selected, but also similar groups and things it thinks you'll like. It's pretty amazing.

Here's the site: http://www.pandora.com/

After a few songs, it'll ask you to register to keep listening to the same station, and it's completely free. You can pay for a subscription to get rid of ads, but they're not a big deal.

edit: Oh, I just noticed that it's limited to US only.
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Pfft, I use it at college and I sure as hell don't reside on the other side of the pond :smile: Just give it a .com ending email address and it could no care less. :wink:
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I use it sometime, it's nice but the ability to go by genre or for it to get info from my itunes library (Like last.fm is supposed to) would be nicer.
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It was pretty lousy at finding my stuff, but my tastes are somewhat eclectic and it's generally not easy for this sort of software to figure out what I go in for.

I did find Vain Glory Opera from it, though, and that rocks the fuck out.
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I really enjoy Pandora. The music genome project as a whole interests me. Punching in "The Seatbelts" and getting some good ole Miles Davis was my highlighting moment.
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I love Pandora's way of analyzing music; they go a lot deeper than the well-known genres of music and break everything down into individual elements. I like to read the reasons that they give for playing a certain song: rhythmic piano, acoustic instrumentation, vocal harmonies, poetic lyrics. But there's a lot they don't tell us there, and I'd do anything to know all the factors in the music genome project.
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