Today’s Site of the Week is... Pandora Radio. Pandora came out some years back (8 years to be exact). It’s awesome an online radio site. What separates Pandora from Yahoo Music or other music sites, is that it’s main purpose is to find songs you might like based on a song or artist you searched for. Let’s say you type in Hikaru Utada (yes, you can even search for Jpop artist), the program might play a song of hers and then based on an algorithm it’ll find you songs similar to hers. There are about 400 different musical characteristics it uses to determine the what to play next.Then as more songs play you can rate them. Click on the thumbs up if you like, and they’ll send you more songs like that, or click on the thumbs down and they remove that song from your list. You can create and save various stations by artists, song or genre and share them with friends. You can also listen to your stations on phone if you have AT&T or Sprint. It doesn't stop there. You can also find other people who have similar stations and leave them notes and buy saved songs from Amazon or iTunes (or Limewire if you're me). Unlike the mythical tale of Pandora's box, this site opens a whole world of new music to you. It’s a great way to refresh your music library if you’re tired of listening to the same song over and over. Pandora – a great way to discover new music.
So, have you tried Pandora? Did ya enjoy the experience?
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