Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Finding Music: Open Pandora's Box

My boss came by my office earlier today and introduced me to Pandora by the Music Genome Project. Pandora allows you to create your own internet radio station. Type the name of an artist or band and Pandora starts playing music from that artist or band, followed by similar music in that genre. You can tailor selections even further by advising Pandora when you like a song (thumbs up), when you don't (thumbs down), and when a song needs to disappear for a month before returning to your radio. You can create up to 100 different radio stations for your listening pleasure. After a test drive of a few songs, a simple registration gives you free access to Pandora forever; however, you can choose to be ad-free for a price. (The way I see it, ads on this site aren't really going to bother you all that much unless you're the type to stare at your computer while the music plays. Hopefully you aren't that type of person. Because really - how weird is that?) An added bonus, Pandora is respectfully polite, apologizing for bad song selections and promising never to air them on the radio station again.

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