i'm hooked on pandora.com

Posted At : March 27, 2008 6:32 PM | Posted By : johann
Related Categories: music

I like all kinds of music. From The Fray, to Toby Keith, to Armin van Buuren. So really, from modern rock to country to techno. I like it all. I have a ton of songs on my iPod, in all of those genres. I have playlists for when I run and when I am just hanging out with family and friends, and even some for road trips to New Ulm, where my parents live, or to North Dakota to my in-laws' farm.

What I can never do is find music that is like the few bands that I like. A few weeks ago, my brother messaged me and said to check out a site, Pandora.com. Pandora is part of The Music Genome Project. What they have done is come up with a system that recognizes like songs, not quite by genre, but more by what the music is like by instruments, by the lyrics, arrangement, etc.

So, I typed in "The Fray" and sure enough. I get songs by them, by the Goo Goo Dolls, Oasis, Green Day, etc. Pandora creates a playlist of like songs. All the songs are alike, and song that I have heard (mostly) but never remembered or thought to download.

I listen to it every day. You have to sign up if you want to create a playlist. You can create multiple playlists as well. I have one for all the kinds of music I like. It has a nice interface and is easy to use. My wife and my mom have signed up as well. Go ahead and give it a try. You'll like it and find songs that you like as well, and its free!

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I too have been a Pandora.com junkie lately. At first it was frustrating; the hardest part is to, as you are listening, be diligent about rating the songs as good or bad. The better you are at that, the faster the radio station keeps serving up songs you like.

The biggest mistake I have made was to head to lunch several times and forget to pause it. I think then it just has all sorts of songs playing without you teaching it what to give you :)

# Posted By Ben Nadel | 3/28/08 8:14 AM

I've been a Pandora junkie forever, but what really makes it killer for is using OpenPandora (http://openpandora.googlepages.com/)

It lets you run the Pandora player as a stand alone app, and gives you global hotkeys to run it

# Posted By Jason Rushton | 3/28/08 10:18 AM

@Ben

I have done the same thing with walking away from my computer and letting it just play and play. I have been getting better at it though. I have seen a HUGE improvement in my "station" when I stay on top of it.

@Jason

I just downloaded OpenPandora. It rocks! Thanks for the info!

# Posted By johann | 3/28/08 10:59 AM

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