radio.
July 11th, 2009 § 1 Comment
I want to take some time to talk about radio [no, not the lovable mentally challenged man portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr.]. The radio has declined an incredible amount over the past couple years, I blame the rapidly changing popularity of songs [instead of songs being popular for months, they are only popular for days/weeks [trifflin.]
Variety Defined.
In comes The Music Genome Project, or Pandora. [website] Pandora may be the single greatest invention as far as internet radio goes. The variety it offers is impressive to say the least. And guess what America, it’s free. It costs $0 a month to listen to all the music your heart could possibly desire with limited limited limited commercial interruption. [see the bottom of this post for sad news].
Pandora offers listeners the ability to create their own radio stations based on either a band or a song and it impressively finds songs that are of the same lyrical family as what you originally chose [it's like magic!!].
For example: You want to listen to “Just Let Go” by Mae. So you type in “Just Let Go” in the “Create a Radio Station” and boom, it did it. It then played other songs by Mae and then it found other artists like Dashboard Confessional, The Fray, and Jack’s Mannequin. And the best part about this is that they don’t play the band’s most popular songs, they play songs from their entire catalog so it’s a nice mix of songs as well as a good way to explore artists you’re not familiar with.
My only gripe with Pandora is the fact that it has an hourly “skip limit” which is basically a limit to how many songs you can choose to not listen to. If a song you don’t like comes on, you can skip it, but you’re limited to only a handful [six or seven] an hour. But that isn’t too inconvenient.
[SAD NEWS] – Pandora is soon going to limit their “Free Accounts” to only 40 hours a month but will ALSO soon offer Pandora One, which is essentially Pandora sans advertisements but with a $36 a year subscription fee [which isn't terribly awful if you think about it realistically].
So what do I think of Pandora? I think that if Pandora were a women, I would marry her because she offers a bit of variety and she gives me exactly what I want, while remaining relatively low maintenance.
I’ll probably subscribe…maybe.
Cody.
I absolutelly agree with the author, throw would like to got more detailed info with updates about this. Thanks for good article, keep on doing good job. Cheers