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February 11, 2007
Pandora Internet Radio - Helping to find new artists
For my first blog, I thought I'd talk about a website that I have been using on and off for about a year now, but have recently become a huge fan of. The website is
The basic premise of the site is that you enter several songs you like (in a certain genre) and they analyze your choices for common music melodies, instrumentals, and lyrical content, to name only a few of their criteria. From the data they gather, they play different artists on your "radio station," and there you are, discovering artists no one else has even heard of. If you dislike a song, you just give it a thumbs down. If you especially like a song, give it a thumbs up.
After a few sessions of fine tuning your station, you are listening to songs that you have never heard before, but you somehow find yourself enjoying.
Among the things I enjoy most about the site is the instant feedback that you can give the Pandora program, which can instantly shift the focus of a certain station. A thumbs up will open up a whole new box of music. Also, the website draws from almost a century of music, so there are probably hundreds of thousands of artists and songs that they draw their data from.
It's a great site, and the more time I spend on it, the better suited to my personal tastes the music is. If you want to go a little further, you can buy a personal Pandora.com player, a bit like a more specific Sirius or XM mp3 player.
Posted by kiwesley at February 11, 2007 10:10 PM