Friday, October 19, 2007

Pandora

Opensource it!

I ran across Pandora and have been playing with it all day (almost burned lunch). It's pretty cool. Basically, it's internet radio. However, it allows you to create your own stations by adding your fav artist. Each artist is it's own station with similar artists included. There's also a feature that allows you to blend your stations up for a random genre effect. No trouble adding bands, except dragonash. Japanese. It's a shame but whatev...er. Pandora includes a thumbs up/down rating feature for added filtering. It was a little heavy on the CPU resources but I'm using a pIII >1ghz so it's no surprise. Overall good product, good sound. I recommend. Of course, anything with 311 and Phish works for me, so I'm not really picky. I wish there was a pop out feature. Wanna share stations? Look me up under peacepipejv.