Pandora

is so awesome.

If you don't use it, you haven't lived.

 

Agreed. I just wish that I could get flash to work on my 64-bit laptop so I could use the Pandora sidebar gadget (All the registry hacks I've tried to convert it to 32-bit have failed )

 

Did you try this one.

http://www.bgreco.net/gadgets/pandora/

 

Try Grooveshark, Pandora is nothing.

 

They're both good for different things. Grooveshark for listening to music you already know (or at least know about); Pandora for discovering music you don't know of yet.

However, Grooveshark won't last that long; it will be sued into oblivion.

 

Pandora question: Is there a way to view station history? I recently created a station and it found some songs I'd never heard before that I liked. I remembered the artists' name, but not the songs, and YouTubed the artist a few days later. Unfortunately the songs I liked apparently aren't the artists' most well-known work. So I'd like to see what particular songs my station played, so I can look them up later.

In case anyone might know, the station was based on Nightwish's Nemo, and the artist was Leaves' Eye.

Semi-related question: I know the Zune has a radio on which you can identify songs; does it have the ability to look up what played after the fact?

 

nope. Once you close the station, you can't scroll back.

But it does keep track of songs you thumb up and down.

 

You can view the history of what you have given thumbs up or down, but not everything you listed to.

 

Pandora is terrible. Grooveshark is infinitely better, and Swarmer, it does have a "radio" feature that lets you find new music similar to music you select, and you're limited to 6 skips per hour.

 

Love Pandora. Use it on my iPhone alot. Just tried Pandora sidebar gadget on Windows 7 64bit. Very simple, just close the sidebar process & open sidebar again in the 32 bit Programs folder.

 

When its free, I'm not going to complain too much.

 

It is pretty cool. I don't use it very often but I've got it on my Blackberry so I can listen to a few songs when I've got some downtime.

I have found a few songs that I really like. I turned on the Mogwai station and it played Kids Will Be Skeletons. I hadn't heard that song of theirs before. I made a memo to find a copy of the CD that it's on. They're an awesome band. If you haven't heard any of their music, definitely take a listen.

 

I have the paid one and I like it.

 

I've never had good luck with Pandora. Usually when I enter an artist name, it says it can't find anything. Last.fm has a broader selection and tends to have more variety in the stream.

 

I like Pandora. It tends to find enough stuff to please me, and I listen to stuff pretty far off the beaten path. The Pandora app was actually one of the selling features that convinced me to get a Droid.

 

Also cool, I can pick from friend's mix station.

 

Thanks. I just figured out how to access that on an iPod Touch, and fortunately I had thumbs-upped one of the songs.

 

I just put a pandora application on my Nokia N900 like an hour ago. I dont listen too it often but when I feel like hearing something new that I do not have on my computer I usually give Pandora a go, I have found quite a few bands that I like due to Pandora.

I'll have to give that Win 7 gadget a try see what its like.

 

If you use the internet browser you can look back a few songs.

 

Anything similar that works in canada?

 

Pandora One has a 15 song history you can access by clicking the album image in the player then hovering over the left and right edges of the window till a little arrow appears. Yes you have to get the paid subscription to use Pandora One, but the sub is like $15/yr or something.

 

You obviously haven't tried the radio function of Grooveshark.

 

I don't understand the goodness of Pandora. Why not just have the songs you want in a media player and play them whenever you want. I don't get online radios.

 

That's why Grooveshark is better. It's a combination of both.

 

Mostly to find new music. I have a 10,000 song library in my iPod, so I could go a long time without repeating anything. But online radio lets you start with a band or track you are familiar with and expand to other things you may not have heard before.

 

Not to change subjects, but shouldn't this really be in the Off-Topic section? I fail to see the relevance this has to Windows OS and Software.

 

I bolded the relevant subjects for you, in case you missed them.

 

Pandora is not software.

 

Pandora One is software

 

Online radios like Pandora are great cause it caters to your specific taste or what your in the mood to listen to at the moment without the hassle of making playlists and the erratic behavior of using shuffle.

For example with Pandora you can enter any name of an artist and it will not only play that artist's music but play songs that artist has featured on and other artists with a similar vibe. After awhile it will slowly move to differ vibes.

And not to mention the factor of hearing songs you completely forgot about, don't have yet, or haven't heard of.

 

That's right baby. Software. Plus Windows ownz your life and kids. Duh!!!!

Exactly. If all I did was chat with my friends about the next greatest artists, then I wouldn't need a radio. Unfortunately, our chats are mostly limited to women, food, and sports. In that order.

On top of that, the ridiculous spread of music tastes among any group of people makes it terribly difficult to find people who share your same exact taste.

 

It sucks that Pandora no longer works outside the U.S.

 

The only thing abt Pandora i didn't like, was the video ad's.