{"id":171,"date":"2008-03-18T04:01:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/MyNewFavoriteWayToListenToMusicPandora.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-18T04:01:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T04:01:19","slug":"my-new-favorite-way-to-listen-to-music-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/my-new-favorite-way-to-listen-to-music-pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"My new favorite way to listen to music: Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love listening to music, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/24\/my-computer-is-now-a-fat-jukebox\/\">gigabytes of tracks<\/a> stored on my Home Media Server but there&#8217;s a catch: who has time to look through nearly twenty-thousand tracks to pick out just the right grouping of songs?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"58\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a>, a fantastic streaming music service which takes a song or artist as input and then creates a steaming radio station based off the musical &#8220;genes&#8221; of your choice (for more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/mgp\">see The Music Genome Project<\/a>).&nbsp; It&#8217;s fantastically easy, and it&#8217;s free to listen from your computer.&nbsp; Try it out, you don&#8217;t even need to create an account to start listening.&nbsp; Genius!<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience is really quite slick.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Land on the home page and you&#8217;re prompted to enter a track or artist&#8230; no login to get started!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"78\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_thumb_1.png\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Playing music to fit your mood is as easy as picking a song or artist.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m in the mood for some Yes, type in to the box, click &#8220;create&#8221; and Pandora sez:&nbsp; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"86\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_thumb_2.png\" width=\"558\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Sweet, what about the rest of the songs?&nbsp; Next track is Pink Floyd:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"117\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_thumb_3.png\" width=\"597\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/li>\n<li>You can rate each song, telling Pandora to play more like it, or not play that song anymore on that station.&nbsp; You can also look up why any song is playing if you&#8217;re curious.<\/li>\n<li>While it&#8217;s free to listen to on the web you can also pay a nominal fee for Pandora goodness on your other devices.&nbsp; For example, if you have a Sonos or Squeezebox you can pay $36 a year to stream custom, commercial-free radio stations around your house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"199\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/MynewfavoritewaytolistentomusicPandora_12756\/image_thumb_4.png\" width=\"421\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <em><font size=\"1\">What&#8217;s playing on the Yes station?<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Pandora is almost magical, it isn&#8217;t infallible.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you listen for a long time (several hours) you&#8217;ll start hearing repeats.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Pandora sometimes seems to get its wires crossed&#8230; our Dixie Chicks station will occasionally play Corn or Guns &#8216;N Roses.&nbsp; Huh?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that Pandora doesn&#8217;t allow you to play any song you like at any time (like Napster), but that also allows them to have pricing more like satellite radio.<\/p>\n<p>Now what I&#8217;d like to see is Pandora for my own music.&nbsp; Let me pick a track then have Pandora create a play list I can sync to my portable media player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love listening to music, I have gigabytes of tracks stored on my Home Media Server but there&#8217;s a catch: who has time to look through nearly twenty-thousand tracks to pick out just the right grouping of songs?&nbsp; Enter Pandora, a fantastic streaming music service which takes a song or artist as input and then\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlemusic","tag-idlemusic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}