Hi Kevin, the shows are really good as they are. Lots of variation, well structured, ... just keep on doing them! I really look forward to the new shows!

I absolutely love these podcasts! As an aspiring artist, learning more about the music--especially for free and at my own pace--is so valuable. thanks for doing them, Pandora.

I'd love to invite my musician friends to check them out, too. Do you have an e-postcard or something I can send out?

Sarah

I would like to hear all gospel music such as Ernie Haase,cathedral quartet, old friends quartet associatediwth Bill Gaither,statler quartet and oak ridge boys
Thank you. We've been enjoying your music, but it would be nice to hear these particular quartets
and gospel country singers such as elvis Presley,Randy Travis etc.

I list some(I think So)good songs that I don't get to hear very often, I'm always searching for them. I Like All Country, Old & New, So I,m In there With You All. Bye Louie. PS Don't get tired of me.LOL

I love that I can listen to beautiful music at work with NO commercials! Thank you so much from a New Age music fan.

no i realy do love the good job you are doing!!

I love the audio show -- keep up the good work! I have been a little annoyed waiting for new issues however. I haven't noticed any official pattern for new releases - such as the first and third week in a month. Sometimes a month goes by in between new episodes. Additionally, I would expect an audio show and instead find a new "Great Places..." show, which I don't have a strong interest in. Perhaps you could release them as separate shows and keep the release of the audio shows a little bit more predictable.

I LOVE THE VARIETY OF THE MUSIC AND ARTISTS. I PREFER THIS OVER THE RADIO ANYDAY, KNOW ANNOYING COMMERCIALS AND TALKING.

I LIKE THIS MORE THAN LISTENING TO THE RADIO, KNW ANNOYING COMMERCIALS AND TALKING. THANXS!

I love Pandora and have told my family and friends about it. Getting to hear great new music without having to switch stations whenever a commercial or bad song comes on is just unbelievable. At the same time, my library of favorite music continues to grow. Thanks!

Hey Kev! I can't wait for March to come! More power to you guys!

Hey Kev! I can't wait for March to come! More power to you guys!

Got no sound when I checked the blues scale

love this format,...glad I found you,keep up the good work,streaming is awesome,...I`ll spread the word.

I just discovered this site last week and I LOVE it! I've already told everyone at work about it.. and I'm gonna keep spreading the word! I wouldn't change a thing! Its amazing!

Hello

This is one of the best podcasts ever. Really high production quality and fascinating content. But why is it only 5 minutes long? The obvious way to improve it is to make it longer. Much longer. Like 30 or 60 minutes. That would be awesome!

I would like to see many more of the Music Theory podcasts. Maybe even a little longer duration. Tell us more about music and how it's created and structured.

HA THIS THAT OLD MILES BOY I LOVE THE VARIETY I LOVE THIS MUSIC KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, GOD BLESS YOU GUYS.

Congratulations.
Thanks for bringing the music I love to listen to into my office.
March comes in like a Pandora! Can't wait.
Thanks, Pandora

I would like to hear all gospel music,especially quartets like Cathedrals quartets,Ernie Haase, Oakridge quartet,Elvis Presley--How Great Thou Art
Old Friends quartet-Gospel
That would be great we would appreciate this music
Karen Van Den Berge, My email is karenvan8@embarqmail.com

Kevin...in the mind of this 62-year-old woman, you have performed an astonishing feat in producing Pandora! Thank you for making my computer time so much more enjoyable!

I didn't know these shows were available, been with Pandora for a year or so and still don't know how to look for, or get 'em! - So maybe a bigger attention getter on these shows when we tune in to Pandora for music?? - Thanks for being here for us all!! - pat

I love all of the episodes: I really look forward to getting them on my iTunes subscription! However, whenever you refer to musical theory, I'd like it if you'd give brief references to past podcasts that talked about them, or even helpful blurbs on the accompanying web page. I agree with Trish that you should advertise the podcast a little more (I don't know how many people click on "Pandora Presents..." on the main page).

Keep creating,
Kagi

What about hippie music and woodstock?

this is the best thing that pandora is doing i listen all my famous artist i like all kind of music keep up the good work and god bless all of you talent.thank quiles

Hello, all! Thanks for the supportive messages.

Ryan: We are splitting the audio shows and the videos into two separate RSS feeds starting in March. "Pandora Presents...the Musicology Show" will be its own subscription, separate from the venue videos.

Kagitsune: I'll refer back to past podcasts more. We also have a cross-referenced glossary that goes term by term.

I am a non-traditional student and absolutely love that fact that I can sit at my PC and do writing assignments, homework, etc and listen to my "chill out" radio (which is New Age and acoustic guitar and piano selections). I've found nothing that parallels to Pandora. Occasionally, the selections veer off course, but after my responses, you bring it right back to the music I prefer.

I'm spreading the word.

Thanks Kevin and associates.

Wake up to Pandora...this could add great value!!! Ever since my friend introduced me to Pandora, Pandora has become the ONLY station played at my parents, brother, sister, and all my friend’s house. Now that we have Pandora every where, wouldn't it be great to wake up to it every morning. I would like to see Pandora creating an alarm system where you could configure your favorite station and set different times.

Thanks, Kevin

You are doing great. Keep doing your excellent work.

Thanks, guys! We're working on "Building A Song From The Ground Up" (likely a late-March episode), all based on your votes.

"Vocalizing" is on its way as well.

Any ideas of what this show could use? (I'm asking not about Pandora at large, just about this one particular corner of Pandora, "the Musicology Show.")

I wish there was a way that once you make a musical selection, you could have a "suggestive artist"(like a pull down window), then you could just select a song from the pull down window. My stations are becoming boring, because I just can't think of artist name or songs on my own. I still love the idea and the music. Thank you

Hey Kevin

Love the format and love the shows I would not change anything but I would love to see more gospelvideos. Keep up the good work and I am telling all friends to sign up. This is absolutely great way to listen music and videos.
Keep up the good work, looking forward to March.
Peace.

Thank all you guys at Pandora for giving me the pleasure to listen to the music of the "BigBand" era which is rarely available on most radio stations today for an 87 year old.

I love my radio staions, I even plug my laptop into my work vans speakers and listen on the road.
I was wondering though if you had thought of playing audio books or BBC style skit shows?

I have been using Pandora for at least two years now, and I still love it! I wasn't aware of these episodes (I always just leave Pandora open in a tab in Firefox) you are doing, but I will check them out. I own a Computer Shop and am telling my customers about this website... Hopefully that will help!

maybe you could show videos of audio engineering setups, instructions, or lessons

I don't know how I ever got by without Pandora's music. The Denver area's radio stations are the absolute worst. You are the absolute best! I am simply mad about Pandora! Thank you, thank you, thank you for providing such a wonderful means of listening to great music all the time.

Thanks for listening everybody!

Adam: videos of home recording and big-studio setups, check. We're debuting a new video show called "Studio Stories" on Wednesday, March 5. Keep an eye for it.

Marnie: I'm sorry that Denver's terrestrial stations are not providing what you want/need. Thanks for finding us.

D: Have you tried making a song-based station? That always helps for me.

Kevin C: We don't host artist videos yet. Someday, I hope.

Charles: I love the big-band era too, even though I'm a bit newer to it. (smile.) Pandora seems to do especially well with swing music.

Anybody else?

Pandora is a pleasure everyday now I can't live with out your music. You are a jewel in my life!

I LOVE THIS STATION. THERE ARE NO STOPING OF ANYTHING WHEN GOD IS INVOLED.YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB' I LOVE GOD ICAN ALWAYS COME HERE AFTER THE THE DEVIL TRYS TO STEAL MY JOY, WHICH WILL NEVER HAPPEN. YOU SEE I BELONG TO GOD. THANK YOU AGAIN,AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU ALL. WITH A TOUCH OF L. U. V.

I love pandora, I love that I can create my on raidio station, I love the gospel groups, ernie hass, the gaithers, ect

I would like to promote Pandora from my website.
I would like to create a menu to display the genres,
similar to Thrilltone & TrueArtNow

I will also promote it from my very busy auctions
when I resume running them in a few months
(the link will display my last auction)

I encounter a LOT of guitar players

Thanks for listening, everybody. The new shows are on their way:

The Musicology Show
Studio Stories
Great Venues

...and more on the way. Yes yes.

Any requests? Elements you'd like to see added or removed from our original videos and audio shows?

A clickable image link to Pandora would be cool. Something about a normal avatar size that could be posted in forums and the like. Maybe myspace as well if it hasn't alread been done.

I would really recommend that you guys add a share by email link to your podcasts.

Pandora is by hands down is the bestmusic service available on the internet today, free or subscription-based. period. audio quality is better than my pay for play satellite/subcription service offers currently. I'd love to see more pandora extra offerings on different genres, like how punk originated, the history of the blues etc. etc. also would like to see pandora highlight live performaces at historic venues like at the tower theaer in phila pa near where I live which I have attended many past and recent shows. sidenote, I think you have the best business/music web model I have ever seen...

Hi webmaster!

HI KVE JUST KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ,THERE ISN;T ANYTHING I WOULD CHANGE PANDORA HAS MADE A 67 YR OLD LADY FALL IN LOVE AGAIN . KEEP IT UP/

Holy Guacamole'... I have stumbled upon a whole
NEW WORLD !! How refreshing !! Zappa, and Steely
Dan, and that's as far as I've gotten. I just know
I'm in for some treats !! Pandora has quenched my
musical thirst !! Thank you, thank you, thank you !!
Excuse me now, I really must buckle up.

FATE L. HOPKINS - or- twist of fate

I am "blown away" by all of the research time and efforts put into Pandora Radio. I am getting "long in the tooth" age-wise and have been a record/CD collector and musician 'wannabe' all of my life. Those of you at Pandora Radio find your quest truly to be a labor of love or there would not be such access to all of this music. You are to be commended for a brilliant concept in promoting all of these musical genres. May you persist and prosper in this noble cause!

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR BLACK GOSPEL SINGERS, OLDIES

Great! Greatest music place I've found on the web. I am so grateful for your efforts! Please, please continue to provide this wonderful service to us.
Congratulations...I tell all my family and friends about you. Continued success!

I see a lotta people asking for gosple, how about some gosple blues, like Blind Willie Johnson, may have the wrong name but he sings The soul of a man, If I had my way I'd tear the building down, All God's children have a hard time sometimes, love his voice, anyway I think you're doing a great job and really enjoy the music as well as lessons. How about for those of us who write poetry and never considered putting it to music, how to set the words to music, and also more on the melancholy sounds that are even more dreary than minor sounds but get the pt across w/out words, and also how about some examples w/only music no words and maybe a little on how diff artist write music for movies, like say the Godfather on the DVD they interviewed the 2 composers and they gave little exercpts, it was like a couple of the same songs ran thruout all 3 movies but sometimes very soft, others loud, and sometimes just enough off that it drew your attention cuz it was diff and it could say more than a song w/words when played at the right place in a movie. Other than that not real clear request, keep up the great site. Peace.

I think you all do a great job. Don't change anything. Bless you all. Whenever I'm having a bad day I just turn on Pandora. It really lifts me up. Thank You.

Hi, Kevin,

I echo pat in that these shows look fantastic, and this is the first that I have heard of them, despite having used pandora for over a year. I would love to listen at work, but we use PCs, and we cannot install iTunes. Therefore, please make the shows available through Windows media or some format other than podcast, if at all possible. I'm sure your listenership would skyrocket, and your sponsors would be happy.

Best wishes, and thanks.

P.S. I just figured out how to download the shows in .mp3 format. Perhaps calling them podcasts and placing iTunes prominently on the home page, which suggested to me that they were only available for those with iPods or iTunes. I think that if you correct this misconception, you will get many more listeners.

Thanks, and good luck.

Pandora is a web music miracle! The selections of music are wonderful. I hope you can add some specifically Christian artists and stations in the future. I have not been able to find them in your search files. I listen to you;) Thanks for listening to me.

Lee said: "A clickable image link to Pandora would be cool. Something about a normal avatar size that could be posted in forums and the like. Maybe myspace as well if it hasn't alread been done."

Gabe said: "I would really recommend that you guys add a share by email link to your podcasts."

Benjamin said: "Perhaps calling them podcasts and placing iTunes prominently on the home page, which suggested to me that they were only available for those with iPods or iTunes. I think that if you correct this misconception, you will get many more listeners. Thanks, and good luck."

I like all of these ideas... It's just a question of time. In the meantime, though, tell your friends and neighbors that these free shows exist. We're word-of-mouth at this early stage of development.

Specifically to Benjamin's point -- these shows are available as MP3s, so playable in Windows Media Player or Real Player or whatever you choose.

Man, this is great! There's SO much stuff to mess around with here! Love it! Any chance you guys could add any Flash-player music games to play while I'm listening? Or how about an online music trivia game? Remember that Music Jeopardy game on MTV? You guys should try something like that. Keep up the good work!

The BEST thing in the universe for FREE and you are able to enjoy.

There should me more naked women in the podcast!

Wait a minute...

Hey I just found your site about an hour and a half ago. Kickin Classics. I'll pass on your site. Are there any plans to have a favorites area, or not. Either way I really was pleased to find this station. Have Fun Mike W.

I tried a podcast once, but had technical trouble. So, I haven't gone back since. but it sounded so interesting. I'm on linux so sometimes I just have to forgo things, like if somethings only tuned for Windows.

First of all, I love this podcast. It's always interesting in both topic and presentation and I love learning new things about music. My one complaint is that there are only 16 episodes available in iTunes (on my computer anyway) when there are supposed to be 30. One of these 16 won't even download. Fixing these technical problems would probably increase your listeners. Nonetheless, you're doing a very good job and I can't wait for new episodes.

Hi Kevin

Pandora Presents ROCKS (pun intended!) & lends itself PERFECTLY to a segment on NPR!

Email to discuss

Jamie Pullman

I'm agree with Leah's post on March 1. I can not find a link to get the 30 podcasts from 2007. Re-subscribing with itunes does not help. I also love podcasts,and I know how much work goes into producing them, but this kind issue discourages subscribers. The podcasts are fascinating. Please make the archives more accessible.

Can one only subscribe via iTunes? I think your effort and show is awesome and would love to support it visibly for your sponsors, but I don't use iTunes.

Samuel and Leah,

The easiest way to access the full archives are from our category pages -- on the left-hand side, you can hear each show for free. It's not through iTunes, just directly through our own page.

Cut and paste this into your browser to see the Composition archives, for example:
http://blog.pandora.com/archives/podcast/composition/index.html

LB:
You can use any number of podcatchers to hear the shows. We chose iTunes as the main one to feature just due to its sheer popularity, but any podcatcher will work.

If you go to our RSS feed, you can access the show with other services:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/pandora/podcast.xml

Other podcatchers include Odeo, Juice, Netvibes, and you can subscribe with any of those services for free.

There has to be a way to cancel out an artist group that I don't care for but I cannot find it. Somebody help me please. The Pandora system is wonderful.

Hi Kev.
I am a soon to be 80 year old woman and enjoy almost any music since the 40;s to the present except for rap or hip hop (I'm more for the easy listening music, the vocals (old and new). It is great to go about my day and not hear a commercial or whatever. My son-in-law told me about Pandora and he is now my No. 1 for getting me started. Just continue doing what you do. I love it!!!

Hey, kelvin i'm one of your outstandin listerner.Your station is overwhelmin to me in the sense that each time i listern to its tracks, its reminds me of my beautiful memories of old. keep it up.

You are truly the best ever.
Keep it up.

It would be a great help if you would keep playing the requests of a particular artists until asked to change. I don't always want it to keep changing.
Thanks for a great job.
Dot

Amazing class. Your talents are bright through Pandora. Make no mistake, you have made it clear that you are laying out the red carpet for millions of new listeners, like me. The quality throughout the entire site is undeniably a reflection and association I can't wait to share with everyone I know. SNAP!

i'm trying, man. ;\

got a few to join.

I am very glad I ran into Pandora. My wife has to fight me for the computer but such is life, kidding!! I spent all of Dec last year in Mexico and tried to get Pandora. When I clicked on my Pandora link I got a message that said it was not available in Mexico yet, cry, cry. I know you are working on going further out in this world of ours.
Muchas gracias for this station. I enjoy it so much!!

Hi Kevin,

I'm new here, I can't comment on your content yet but I recently received a couple of fragments of music from elsewhere that I like a lot, but I haven't been able to find the group who performs this music.

The music is a kind of modern Gregorian chant, wonderful to my ears.

Would it be possible for me to send you a couple of .wav files for you to play sometime and ask your listeners to help identify the group?

Thank you,

Tom

hi pandora peeps. you were my introduction to online personalized radio listening, (sniff), and even after exploring the rest, i still think you're the best.

the podcasts are awesome. they seem to mainly be directed at new musicians or interested non-musicians, but they still get pretty detailed so even musicians might learn something they didn't know.

questin: what about more cross-culturally educational podcasts? like scale systems from other cultures, or ways that they perceive rhythm? like the salsa one you did, for example. (sorry if this has already been put out there, didn't read whole blog.)

much love,
ash

hey man
i love these podcasts
but they seem very rushed
it'd be great if you could delve a little deeper into these topics.
keep up the good work!

drew

I absolutely love Pandora. I've had it for a while but this is the first time I've explored the extra features. Though I love all kinds of music, I've been trying to find music that is considered experimental - mostly electronic, but also works by folks like Henry Cowell (from whose work my username came) and John Cage.

BRILLIANT job, all of you! I'm at work now, but I intend to follow your podcasts!

If anyone else there out there is interested in "new" music, I would love to know.

Thank you,
the banshee

Sorry to double-dip. I just read all the other posts and it's amazing how despite different we may be in our tastes, we're all glad that Pandora exists.

So our top vote-earners at this point...

20 - Building A Song From The Ground Up

20 - Chord Resolution

19 - Arranging

19 - Melodic Construction

17 - Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths

15 - Vocalizing

14 - Eight Bars, Twelve Bars

14 - Funk

12 - Lyrical Cliches

10 - Recording At Home

Interesting facts.I have bookmarked this site. stephanazs

Kevin,

I just discovered your podcast over the weekend and I'm having a fantastic time working my way through the entire series. The quality is amazing and the enthusiasm of you and your guests is contagious.

I want to mention that I successfully downloaded all of the podcast episodes through iTunes except for one, The Blues Scale, which failed repeated attempts. However I was able to play The Blues Scale podcast directly from the Pandora website.