If you have never been to Pandora.com, it is a very unique and interesting website, especially for music lovers. Pandora offers a wide variety of music to listen to—pretty much any type of music you can think of. However, Pandora is unique because while you cannot download the music, you can listen to the music for free. It’s actually more like a radio than just a music player. It’s really pretty cool because what you do is give them the name of an artist that you particularly like, and Pandora will begin by playing a song from that artist. The next song may or may not be from that artist—usually it moves on to a different artist. However, the song by the next artist is very similar in style to the artist you began with. For example, by typing in Ben Folds—whose style is largely centered on the use of the piano, the next song will be similar, probably with a song centered on the use of the piano.
It’s really very fascinating. I have personally used Pandora many times and it has led to some new artists, which have quickly been added to my lists of favorites. The site allows you to add as many different “stations” as you want. If you don’t like a song that Pandora gives you, you can rate it with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and you can skip to the next song. By rating the songs you listen to, Pandora quickly learns what types of music you like to hear, and eventually you will only hear music that interests you personally.
Pandora is different from most online music sites in that Pandora is completely legal. A lot of music websites struggle with the legality of their music offered—especially those websites that offer music available for download. Sometimes this music is unlawfully downloaded and creates legal issues with the owner’s of the song’s copyright. However, because of the streaming nature of Pandora’s offered songs, listening to them raises no legal issues, because Pandora already owns the right to broadcast them. Basically, Pandora is just like a radio—except it’s more like an interactive radio.
Pandora is a great website for music lovers. Instead of immediately going to iTunes and downloading an artist, why not first go to Pandora and see you like that style of music first? Check out Pandora.com, it’s a great and innovative website.
2 comments:
That is a good idea. I personally have used Yahoo! Music's Launchcast Radio player a little more though. Have you tried it? Besides the occasional commercials it really is a great radio player since you can rate every song you listen to and the player adjusts surprisingly well to your ratings.
Does it work on Mac?
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