Have you ever been listening to iTunes and sat there clicking through all your songs feeling bored and fed up that you can't get instant music that you haven't heard before and old favourites that you don't have in your music library? Have you ever wanted to listen to a song that you don't have without downloading? If you have check out Pandora.com.Pandora.com is a website where they make a radio station around what you tell them, so you type in a song or artist and then it plays music back to you that is by similar artists, and you can state whether or not you like it or not and it learns what you want to listen to. I haven't been using it for very long but so far i'm loving it! It's been on my list of sites to check out for a while and i'm impressed. Only criticism so far is that for all us UK users you have to fake a US postcode thingy to sign up (you can use the service without signing up!) if you want your radio preferences saved because they are currently only licensed to stream to the US but apparently they are planning a UK release in the future! The concept is allowing you to discover new music by artists you have never heard of! The creators have actually listened to each individual song taking notes so they can cateogorise them, thats commitment for you. Such a great idea, it's free, there really has to be a catch!
NB discovered that you can't skip very much, only a few songs per hour due to licensing so keep typing in what you want to make sure the songs are what you are going to want to listen to!
Other comments on Pandora.com and the Genome Music Project:
Listen to Music Online with Pandora
Pandora - The Genome Music Project
Radio made just for you
Other Pandora Links
The Pandora Site Blog
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