I love music. I really think that if I were to change professions, or go back in life to change something, I would had picked up music as a hobby. Sure I buy music, listen avidly and I own a guitar but I suck at the guitar, at least to this point in my life. While I hope to one day invest in my musical talents, for now, I have to listen to other people's music.
When it comes to what I listen to, I listen to nearly anything. I do not like country all that much, although there are certain artists and songs that I do enjoy, but other than that, I listen to nearly anything. My iPod Touch is busting at the seams due to the amount of music on it. While looking through the Apple iPhone App Store, I kept seeing an application called Pandora in the top 25 with killer reviews. I decided to check it out and ever since, my life has changed.
Pandora is published by pandora.com, whom provides a free service where you can create virtual radio stations based on your favorite artist. After you create a radio station, you listen to music by that artist and other artists with similar music, as identified by the Music Genome Project. (While the Music Genome Project is an extremely brilliant algorithm, I will not dive into it here.) Once you create your radio station(s), you begin to listen either in your web browser or on your iPhone/iPod Touch. Music plays commercial free and the user interface allows you to pause a song, skip to the next song, rate the song (Whether you like it or not) or you can even bookmark that song and/or artist. Pandora even lets you buy the song you're listening to. Pandora.com has literally changed the way I listen to music.
For anyone that loves music and likes music tailored to your likes, with complete control to weed out the things you don't like, Pandora.com is for you. Whether you're listening through a web browser, mobile phone or media device like the iPod Touch, Pandor's Music Genome Project will make sure you have the music you want, commercial free. Pandora.com, you rock.
