[Deanrover]

This is a fantastic website with an extensive list of music (excluding World and Classical). You tell it a song or band that you like, and it plays you music with similar characteristics. As you tell Pandora more songs that you like, or you give it a thumbs up/down on the songs it plays for you, your own personal radio station adapts and improves. It is free. You can also share your radio station with friends.

For example I created

http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh29624289

Mainly Stripped down easyish listening indie.

Dean

[hrothgar]

this is REALLY cool!

[Deanrover]

btw my advice is to add songs that you like rather than artists, I've found this leads to something much closer to what you are looking for.

[mike777]

this is great I just checked it out.

[hrothgar]

I can already tell that this is gonna be a terrible time sink: I have to love any site that recommends a song to me based on

"a vocal centric aesthetic, featuring minor key tonality, an unintelligble vocal delivery, and a subtle use of vocal harmony"

If anyone wants to check out my stations, search on richard.willey@gmail.com
The station titled Herot is probably most indicative of my tastes...

[sallyally]

It says in the agreement that you have to pay - provide a credit card number. Is this necessary or am I doing something wrong?

[jillybean]

sallyally, on May 29 2006, 07:50 PM, said:

It says in the agreement that you have to pay - provide a credit card number. Is this necessary or am I doing something wrong?

Yo can skip the pay option and just get the free version - I think you select 'no thanks'

My bridge is going to suffer...this is great!
jb

[sceptic]

nice one

[42]

My music taste seems to be strange, it could not find what I was looking for

[nickf]

Dean,

you have done well my friend, very well.

nickf
sydney

[joshs]

I used to use this site (which I loved) until my work firewalled it....

[MickyB]

hrothgar, on May 30 2006, 02:27 AM, said:

The station titled Herot is probably most indicative of my tastes...

Did you mean for it to play me Cher?

[Badmonster]

I love Pandora. Maybe too much. I could sit at home and play with it for hours instead of doing things like... oh playing bridge, going to work, having a life.

[mike777]

Ya this is truly awesome..I am listening to Psycho by the Sonics..check out all their songs. They are a truly great band from my youth that never really made it big time for some unknown reason. It is great to play bbo and listen to this great music.

[Badmonster]

Today Pandora frightened me when it interrupted the blues to play Sean Cassidy! This is why they asked me what year I was born, isn't it? Yes! Yes I did have Sean Cassidy Poster! Yes I used to kiss it! I confess. But sheesh that was over 30 years ago. Isn't there some sort of statute on how long you can be tormented?