Pandora In A Box

[bobquasit]

Everyone here probably already knows about Pandora.com - in this case, I suspect that I'm a late adopter. But just in case someone out there hasn't tried it yet, you'd better try it while you can. A recent FCC ruling may force it and most other internet radio stations off the air before too much longer.

What I love about Pandora is that you tell it one or more artists or songs that you like, and it picks out other songs and artists for you that it thinks that you'll like based on the music's "genome". It's not perfect, of course; mine keeps playing some annoying country songs because I told it I liked Led Zeppelin's "Hot Dog". But it has found a lot of songs that I do like, very much. Some of them are songs that I heard a long time ago, liked, but never found out who sang them; I ended up forgetting about them.

It's just a great tool. I'd hate to see it disappear.

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

The awful thing about the proposed increases, or maybe the ironic thing, is that they're punishing the Honest People, the ones who actually are paying royalties. Why can't the Internet radio people have the same deal as one gets for broadcasting over the air? This is going to actually reduce the industry's income from Internet radio since about the only folk who are going to be able to keep going are the biggest folk (like AOL); most everybody else will have to shut down and I'd expect an increase in illegal stuffs.