Adaptive Internet Radio: Discover Music with Pandora

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the internet radio service Pandora, focusing on its functionality, user experiences, and comparisons with other music services. Participants share their opinions on the effectiveness of Pandora in discovering new music based on user preferences.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Debate/contested, Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes Pandora as a service that plays songs based on user input, suggesting it has a large selection of music.
  • Another participant shares a positive experience with Pandora but notes that it is no longer accessible in Canada due to external issues, mentioning alternatives like imeem and musicovery.
  • A different user expresses dissatisfaction with Pandora's limitations on skipping songs and its incompatibility with DownloadHelper for downloading music.
  • One participant mentions that they have become repetitive in their song choices on Pandora, leading to a need for new input to refresh their listening experience, while also noting performance issues with the service.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a mix of positive and negative experiences with Pandora, indicating that while some appreciate its music discovery capabilities, others highlight limitations and frustrations. There is no consensus on the overall effectiveness of the service.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention specific issues related to geographic restrictions and technical limitations, which may affect their experiences with Pandora.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in music streaming services, particularly those exploring options for discovering new music through internet radio.

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Anyone ever hear of or use Pandora?

www.pandora.com

Basically, it's an internet radio website where you input the name of a song or band you like. It will then play that song or a song from that band. After that it will pick other songs, many from other bands, that it thinks you will like based off of your first decision. So, far I think it works pretty well. It has a huge selection of songs, as well.
 
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Yep, it's pretty cool!

I used it for more than one year and then some bad guys stopped it from working in Canada. There are many others like imeem trying to do the same thing but none of them are as good as pandora

I also like
http://musicovery.com/

but imeem is favorite!
 
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Yeah, its OK. But you can't fast skip too many songs...AND it doesn't work with DownloadHelper, which is what I do with songs on myspace profiles to get free music...
 
I use pandora, but I am getting to the point where I've heard all the songs so many times that I start thumbs downing them. I got to put in new seeds to get some better results.

Ive noticed its been slow lately. When you click next it times out.

Id link my pandora, but I don't know how. Oh well.
 

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