Anybody else enjoy Pandora (www.pandora.com)?

[Bossy Monkey]

Gf introduced me to this site. The deal is that you tell them which musical artists you like, then it streams back music to you drawn partly from your list and partly from artists the program considers to be similar. It's kind of a hoot. I put on punk, bebop, hillbilly music and certain singer-songwriters variously considered country or Americana such as Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen. Because of the latter two, I got a lot of hat acts for a while, but I'm starting to get it trained. (If you get a song you don't like, you just tell it so and the artist won't be played again.) Obviously, not a good choice for dialup users, but a hoot if you're on broadband. I'll type it again so you'll get the hypertext: www.pandora.com. Check it out if you haven't already.

[taterguy]

1. I love it

Things it can also do:

Allow you to add a constantly updated list of your favorite songs to your blog. (See http://www.juliejames.org/artie for example)

Type in a friend's email address and see what they've been listening to if they have an account

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Keen; I wonder if this works with DU journals?

I also have two blogs, but as I haven't kept them up in years, I don't see much point in adding a new feature.

[redqueen]

2. I tried it once, but wasn't too impressed... but it's a neat concept.

I want to try it again now, just to see if maybe I was too hasty in my dismissal of the site before. :)

[Bossy Monkey]

4. It's also probably better to set up different stations for different

genres; that's how my girlfriend did it. I just made mine as all-encompassing as I could to mess with them. Hey! I wonder if they've got any Sacred Harp music?

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Great, just what I needed. Another obsession.

:P

[Bossy Monkey]

7. It'll run in the background! It can be, uh, a passive-obsession

(That sounds too much like passive-aggressive, doesn't it?)

[sendero]

6. I've used it a few hours..

... and it's cool but overall I haven't found their "methodology" for finding new music that I'd like to work that well. They categorize songs with technical descriptions, and despite what someone apparently thinks, I don't like a song becuase it is "minor key modal", I like a song because it is unique and has passion. Something you can't describe with technical terms :)

[many a good man]

8. Is it like Yahoo Launchcast?

I'm subscribing to Launchcast. You rate songs and artists and it gives you other songs based on what other people who like the same songs as you like.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Dunno; I don't know anything about Launchcast

Don't know that much about Pandora, since gf signed up for it, but as far as I can tell it's completely free, works on any computer you work on, and no subscription is involved. I believe she told me the signup process was pretty straightforward. Anyway, you can go see; if it's more than you want to do, you still haven't lost anything.