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You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">The best thing to happen to music since Napster</div>Like music? Like free music (streaming)?
Picky listener? Getting tired of what you're already listening to but everything else sucks?
<a href="http://www.pandora.com" target="_blank">http://www.pandora.com</a> is here for you!
Someone mentioned this to me last week while I was on a cruise. It's basically an online customized radio station that learns your preferences to find new music you'll like.
You start by naming a song or artist you like. It starts playing some of their songs until it finds a few of their songs you like then starts suggesting other songs. It's a simple thumbs up/down system. Thumbs up keeps playing the song and remembers the song as a safety in case you hit too many you don't like later. Thumbs down stops the song right now, and never plays it again ever. As you rate songs, the suggestions become increasingly closer to your tastes.
I've been playing around with it for a few hours, and already noticing that I'm disliking fewer and fewer songs. And I've never heard of half of these bands/songs that it's suggesting. Try it out, it's seriously awesome.
My starter station is <a href="http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh194985231729426550" target="_blank">The Swizzle Zone</a> for those interested (work in progress obviously). But try your own station first.
Picky listener? Getting tired of what you're already listening to but everything else sucks?
<a href="http://www.pandora.com" target="_blank">http://www.pandora.com</a> is here for you!
Someone mentioned this to me last week while I was on a cruise. It's basically an online customized radio station that learns your preferences to find new music you'll like.
You start by naming a song or artist you like. It starts playing some of their songs until it finds a few of their songs you like then starts suggesting other songs. It's a simple thumbs up/down system. Thumbs up keeps playing the song and remembers the song as a safety in case you hit too many you don't like later. Thumbs down stops the song right now, and never plays it again ever. As you rate songs, the suggestions become increasingly closer to your tastes.
I've been playing around with it for a few hours, and already noticing that I'm disliking fewer and fewer songs. And I've never heard of half of these bands/songs that it's suggesting. Try it out, it's seriously awesome.
My starter station is <a href="http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh194985231729426550" target="_blank">The Swizzle Zone</a> for those interested (work in progress obviously). But try your own station first.
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This looks encouraging.... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
It's sad you need a US zip code to register, but hey that didn't stop me :o (And yes, it works surprisingly well)
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The entire staff of where I work come from Beverly Hills 90210, apparently.
if I can't find that zipcode, I just use the one for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC. ( 20500 )
I use <a href="http://openpandora.googlepages.com/" target="_blank">Open Pandora</a> pretty exclusively to listen. I fear it's going to get bloated over time. For now, it's a fairly reliable substitute for having the website loaded.
I'm a big fan of Pandora.
I use <a href="http://openpandora.googlepages.com/" target="_blank">Open Pandora</a> pretty exclusively to listen. I fear it's going to get bloated over time. For now, it's a fairly reliable substitute for having the website loaded.
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I just found out about this a few days ago. Made me love Pandora even more with it's global hotkeys.
I'd share my stations but it's easieset just to tell you guys my starting songs. "Danny the Dog" is a really good weird techno sort of thing, or something, but it's a gateway to a bunch of music you've never heard before. Breaking Benjamin's a real good band and there's some similar stuff on Pandora to find, and Bob Marley brings up all his stuff and his ilk. Unfortunately, picking any of the songs from the Halo 2 soundtrack doesn't find very much good stuff; it's mostly just weird experimental songs.
Wow, Open Pandora is nice. Beats even my Pandora Opera widget.
I'd share my stations but it's easieset just to tell you guys my starting songs. "Danny the Dog" is a really good weird techno sort of thing, or something, but it's a gateway to a bunch of music you've never heard before. Breaking Benjamin's a real good band and there's some similar stuff on Pandora to find, and Bob Marley brings up all his stuff and his ilk. Unfortunately, picking any of the songs from the Halo 2 soundtrack doesn't find very much good stuff; it's mostly just weird experimental songs.
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<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=6216145309032037376&showtopic=99238&hl=danny+the+dog" target="_blank">Hrmm I wonder where you got that from </a>
they seem to be short on imports....
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They are. Anything that is not english, not in there. If you're lucky you get some german rock, like rammstein, o.c. but the more unkown, the less likely you'll find something in there, except for english music.
But still. Run a station, pick the first 10 songs, check the bands out on www.radioblogclub.com, if you like them, create a new station from them and so on. After two hours you'll have at least fice new bands you can listen to.
Approve +1
I thought this was an awesome website until I realized I can't get an account cause it's US residents only.
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I am Canadian and have an account. Just put something like 90210 in.
How do I listen to songs I gave a thumb up to. It keeps giving me new songs which I like but I want to listen to my other songs.
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As far as I can tell they've got one of those internet radio licenses which has all sorts of rules in place to separate it from a traditional music player where you play whatever you want whenever you want.
It's what keeps it legal <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
As far as I can tell they've got one of those internet radio licenses which has all sorts of rules in place to separate it from a traditional music player where you play whatever you want whenever you want.
It's what keeps it legal <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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It seems like it will be a endless circle, songs will never repeat. Unless I need to click dislike for every song, but them Im going to find one that I like. I just want to be able to listen to certain songs maybe a 2nd time at a later time, so far I havent had 1 song repeat.
A lot of stuff isn't on here sadly...
They're Techno though, hardcore if anything with a tad of Drum and Bass.
..."Voodoo People."
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Why, I remember that song from that cinematic milestone Hackers!