Pandora

Pandora is an online radio station that is completely innovative in the way that it goes about selecting music. You begin by typing the song or artist you want to hear and then it does an analysis of the song based on what Pandora calls the Music Genome Project. By figuring out the attributes that make the song what it is, Pandora is able to select music that is similar to the original song of you chose. Whatever the song is that begins playing next, you get to judge by giving it a thumbs up or a thumbs down. In this manner you are able to “talk” with Pandora and let the website know exactly which songs you do and do not like to further refine the radio station to your personal preference.

Pandora allows you to create up to 100 of these free radio stations, each with its own theme or style of music genre. All of this is supported through some advertising on the side of the screen which does not affect you, the listener, at all and makes it so that it is both free and uninterrupted by any kind of commercial. You can also share the stations that you make with a friend by typing in their email address that they listed with Pandora. With all the hours we spend surfing the web now it is nice to be able to listen to the music you like and continue to hear new songs you did not even know previously, but almost always like because of the song analysis. You can click on the Pandora link on the right hand side of my blog to visit their site.