Thread: Pandora

I don't know how many of you are music fans, but if you listen while you do your report, you should check out Pandora.com. I have almost 20,000 songs ripped into my hard drive, and I use a media player to listen in my office and on my home stereo. I hate to say it, but I think Pandora is even better. I've listened to some great stuff that I don't have in my library.

You enter in bands or artists that you like, and it starts playing tunes. You can give songs a thumbs up or thumbs down, and it continues to refine your playlist. The sound quality is pretty good, and the more you use it the more refined it gets. I've tried internet radio several times and didn't like it, but this one is definitely a level above. Obviously, you need high speed internet, but I haven't heard more than a few blips in the past four days. Whatever they do to stream it is working pretty well. You can't store any of it, or at least you can't that I know of. However, it is 100% free, or at least it is so far. Now if I could just get it in my car.

Pandora is great. I have it on all of our computers. We were at some friends home for dinner over the weekend and they have a SONOS system attached to the sound system. It plays Pandora over the home sound system.

If you have an AT&T or Sprint cell phone you can get Pandora on it as well. Just be sure you have a media package so you are not charged for the time on the Internet.

good info, thanks . . .

Aaron