10-19-2009, 03:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2009, 11:12 AM by Omniscient.)
Hello!
Today, I will be telling you about pandora.com. Basically, this is an online radio. Nothing special, right? Wrong! This radio resembles last.fm in that it plays music related to your initial artist/song, BUT it's 100% better.
Basically, you enter either a song name or the name of an artist/band, and the radio will continuously play music that melodically resembles your starting component (band/artist/song).
For instance, the station I'm listening to right now is based off of the song "Letters From Home" by John Michael Montgomery. So far, I've heard:
The Stubborn One by Trace Adkins
It Only Takes One Bar by Tracy Lawrence
and now "Country Boy" by Alan Jackson.
When you enjoy a song, you give it a thumbs up, and pandora.com will store your statistics (assuming you create an account; it's free!) and will adjust the radio as you go based off of your thumbs ups/downs. So, the more you listen, the more precise it becomes. If you dislike a song, you can just thumbsdown then skip it (actually, it might automatically skip, I don't recall). You get like 5 skips per hour if you have a free version.
Every 5 songs or so (or more maybe) there's like a 15 second audio ad, but it's not that bad. If you buy the premium version of pandora, you get:
a) a desktop application
b) an ad-free radio
c) unlimited 'skips'
It's rather expensive though, so I just stick with the free version. It's good enough anyway.
An ss:
Enjoy!
If you're not American, you'll need to download Hotspot Shield and run it before going to pandora.com
Today, I will be telling you about pandora.com. Basically, this is an online radio. Nothing special, right? Wrong! This radio resembles last.fm in that it plays music related to your initial artist/song, BUT it's 100% better.
Basically, you enter either a song name or the name of an artist/band, and the radio will continuously play music that melodically resembles your starting component (band/artist/song).
For instance, the station I'm listening to right now is based off of the song "Letters From Home" by John Michael Montgomery. So far, I've heard:
The Stubborn One by Trace Adkins
It Only Takes One Bar by Tracy Lawrence
and now "Country Boy" by Alan Jackson.
When you enjoy a song, you give it a thumbs up, and pandora.com will store your statistics (assuming you create an account; it's free!) and will adjust the radio as you go based off of your thumbs ups/downs. So, the more you listen, the more precise it becomes. If you dislike a song, you can just thumbsdown then skip it (actually, it might automatically skip, I don't recall). You get like 5 skips per hour if you have a free version.
Every 5 songs or so (or more maybe) there's like a 15 second audio ad, but it's not that bad. If you buy the premium version of pandora, you get:
a) a desktop application
b) an ad-free radio
c) unlimited 'skips'
It's rather expensive though, so I just stick with the free version. It's good enough anyway.
An ss:
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Enjoy!
If you're not American, you'll need to download Hotspot Shield and run it before going to pandora.com