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January 10, 2006

Pandora Meetup at MacWorld

We're getting together this Thursday (Jan 12th, 2006) at MacWorld in San Francisco. Chuck Joiner, a great friend of Pandora and editor of MacVoices is organizing it.

Click here for details.

Where: Piazza Lounge on the second floor of the Renaissance Parc55 Hotel
When: 6:30 - 8 PM.

Tim and I will be there - may also head out for dinner afterwards. Come help us figure out how to get Pandora onto the iPod...!

Posted by Tom Conrad at January 10, 2006 09:06 AM

Comments

iPod ... don't stop there! Show us how to feed Pandora 'live' to an EVDO or G3 blue tooth cell phones! (headphones or blue tooth enable car radio would find what's being served up on Pandora tasty) So far I'm just recording .mp3 streams onto a SD card for plug and go "Pandora-like" tunes ...

Thanks for your super service ...sorry not to be able to connect with you at MacWorld.

Posted by: RichC at January 10, 2006 01:33 PM

We want RSS of our favourite music list!!!

Please, make RSS for us to share...

Posted by: dusoft at January 10, 2006 03:29 PM

Hi - I signed up for Pandora today and after sifting through the music, just wanted to let you know what a brilliant idea this is. With broadband access as it is and looking at iPod's relatively recent success, it seems that the market is ripe for a company to provide streaming music catered to any individual's taste. It's projects like these that truly allow consumers to use technology to meet their needs, and it's always great to see products that feel inventive - that are pushing the envelope and reinventing what it means to listen to music. I'll pass this on to all my friends. Good luck with your business!

Posted by: Jess at January 10, 2006 10:10 PM

Hi - I heard about Pandora today and after sifting through it, just wanted to let you know what a great idea this is. With broadband access as it is and with iPod's relatively recent success, from an average consumer's perspective, the market seems ripe for the service you are providing. It's great to see a service that utilizes technology to allow customers to satiate their individual tastes. Your product feels like it's pushing the envelope and reinventing what it means to listen to music. I'll be sure to pass this along to my friends. Word of mouth will hopefully make this spread like wildfire. Good luck with your business and thanks again!

Posted by: Jess at January 10, 2006 10:20 PM

This seems like a great portal for burgeoning artists to finally get some play time. It's about time someone figured out a means to successfully execute C2C music =)

Posted by: Jess at January 10, 2006 10:31 PM

Dang-finally an app that is similar to me-an intuitive musical encyclopedia. I'm very impressed and appreciative. Major kudos.

Posted by: Mark Forman at January 11, 2006 12:33 AM

FYI Today an overview of Pandora service has appeared in the Russia's major business newspaper, the "Vedomosti" (http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article.shtml?2006/01/11/101492).

You are bright guys, thank you.

Alexey Nikolaev, Moscow

Posted by: Alexey Nikolaev at January 11, 2006 01:35 AM

hey and how about some nifty link banners for us to put on our own blogs?

Posted by: steve at January 11, 2006 08:00 AM

I just wanna say pandora.com is WONDERFUL. :)

Posted by: Cris at January 11, 2006 12:30 PM

Pandora is a great concept. I would be interesting in finding out more about the distance metrics and algorithms that are used to make recommendations. I do programming and analysis in plant genomics, I would think that there is a lot of general concepts in genomics that could be leveraged by Pandora. I think that the whole 'omics' revolution is much more then just a buzzword, these ‘gene’ oriented systems based approaches to knowledge will change the way that we can leverage the knowledge we have to explore what we don’t already know. Pandora is a great example of how labile this concept is.

You guys should swing by Athens, GA some time .. there are plenty of music lovers here.

Posted by: Jamie at January 11, 2006 09:06 PM

Fuckin´Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sambora at January 12, 2006 04:05 AM

How about a Google Desktop Widget? Also, how about a forum to post feature requests.

Thanx.

Posted by: jepp at January 12, 2006 06:21 AM

Hi, I found pandora two nights ago by the total random luck of the internet, and I want to echo many of the comments here by saying this is an amazing project. Really, you are all geniuses. I'm currently working on my masters in library and information science and pandora is a wonderful execution of so many of the ideas and theories we've been talking about in class. Plus, as a music lover always in search of new things, I am delighted to hear new sounds that I probably would never discover otherwise. This is such a thoughtful database you've constructed -- a smart database that is really attuned to user needs and desires. It makes me wonder why we haven't created library catalogs and search engines that work on similar principles.

If you ever come up to Seattle, please do have a meet-up here. I'm sure there are many folks in this town who would love to talk to you in person about your work. I certainly would!

Posted by: Abby at January 12, 2006 11:38 AM

Can I please search by your tags. Can�t I just check off on electronic roots, dub influences, tonal harmonies, slow moving baseline etc etc and be pushed tracks that fall in those categories.

Yes, that is what you already do with the thumbs up thumbs down - but I want you to invite me in via your muscial meta-data database.

I want to mess around and see what wild and crazy combinations of tagged musical elements I can find to enjoy and what combinations are lacking content.

Posted by: stealbelow at January 12, 2006 05:46 PM

I am so hooked on this site. I love the way the more you listen the more a sense of ownership you have of your stations. Brilliant for the end user and for pandora.com's stickiness. Is there a plan to have globally shared stations ("share this station with everyone") and then you could have most popular globally shared station etc... Love it!

Posted by: Deb at January 13, 2006 06:15 AM

I heard about this website a while back in my school newspaper, but didnt bother checking it out until it appeared in The Week. Now I wish I had checked it out earlier, cause this is an amazing project. I've already been introduced to more than 10 new bands, and I've already recomended it to all of my friends. Great job guys, keep up the good work!

Posted by: Randall at January 13, 2006 01:51 PM

AMAZING!
Together with wikipedia, one of the very few truly new services since the advent of the internet.

Vitto

Posted by: Vitto at January 13, 2006 02:50 PM

Two Quick Ideas.

When signing up for a Pandora account ask if the person has an AudioScrobbler account, if yes then one more step is addded, ask for thier login info if they want to give it, then a second station is created for them auto-magicly to try when they are done exploring Pandora, this station is generated from their AudioScrobbler last week info and named their "User name radio.

Hardware
Using tech from a VOIP phone ( a way to login and the wireless bit ) create an iPod add on that joins the users home or wherever wireless network. this add on gets on the wireless network, logs onto Pandora then the users Stations show up in the iPod interface, they select and enjoy, you could add an "on The go" Pandora play list that the user could later see on their Pandora pages. Self powered by the iPod itself.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.
Keep up the great work.

Brian

Posted by: Brian Knoblock at January 14, 2006 05:25 AM

Two Quick Ideas.

When signing up for a Pandora account ask if the person has an AudioScrobbler account, if yes then one more step is addded, ask for thier login info if they want to give it, then a second station is created for them auto-magicly to try when they are done exploring Pandora, this station is generated from their AudioScrobbler last week info and named their "User name radio.

Hardware
Using tech from a VOIP phone ( a way to login and the wireless bit ) create an iPod add on that joins the users home or wherever wireless network. this add on get on the wireless network, logs onto Pandora then the users Stations show up in the iPod interface, they select and enjoy, you could add an "on The go" Pandora play list that the user could later see on their Pandora pages. Self powered by the iPod itself.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.
Keep up the great work.

Brian

Posted by: Brian Knoblock at January 14, 2006 11:30 AM

Just discovered Pandora via an interview w/ Tim Westergren on the Inside the Net podcast. I'm really looking forward to see what my stations give me and how they evolve.

One of the interesting things I've experienced, not mentioned in the interview, is seeing objective descriptions of music we like by asking why a particular song is chosen. Descriptions come up that are unexpected, enlightening, and sometimes embarrassing (breathy female vocals), but true.

One suggestion and one request.
Suggestion: add a feature to shared stations that gives a quick thumbnail of its characteristics.
Request: add Philip Glass music (is he considered classical?)

Craig

Posted by: Craig at January 15, 2006 05:04 AM

just wanna say pandora is a wonderful project. thanks for the music!

Posted by: Anon at January 15, 2006 06:58 AM

I am very happy to have discovered Pandora in my online meandering - it makes up for the dissapointment I have experienced with satellite car radio. This is what I would have hoped for. As I'm sure you know there is a similar UK radio station, but not as intuitive in the interface.

One thing I would suggest is making the FAQ required reading before logging in, simply because it explains the rationale in a way that might have altered some decisions I made early on. I've started two stations under a pseudonym and regret it; they are working out so well I wish I had gone live! I'll import the basics of the stations if that time comes via the fantastic charting features under the edit option. Thank you so much for this!

Posted by: ann ominous at January 15, 2006 11:41 AM

Keep up the good work. Hope the meeting went well...

Posted by: Anthony Headley at January 16, 2006 04:11 AM

I just found you via the East Bay Express article. You have made my weekend! This was just what I needed, thank you for giving me an alternative to commercial radio!

Posted by: Erin at January 16, 2006 12:19 PM

Finally! TiVo for the ears!

Posted by: Bonne Saum at January 16, 2006 04:01 PM

Im from pei canada and i just found about this from a friend today . Man this is such a good idea and suck a kick ass site ! keep it up unreal site

Posted by: mike leblanc at January 16, 2006 06:05 PM

Glad to hear you're thinking of Pandora on the iPod. I would gladly pay $50/year for this, and put up with visual ads on my computer and on my iPod. No audio ads though.

Posted by: Pat at January 16, 2006 07:22 PM

Just want to say that I think this is a great Idea. What a great way to get turned on to new music. I'm sure I tunes is loving it also because my I tunes data base has doubled since I got hooked on it. I'm sure I am not the only one. Keep up the good work. Its nice to see something on the internet that is beneficial to all and legal at the same time.

Steve

Posted by: Stephen D'Angelo at January 16, 2006 07:25 PM

I have signed up and love it! I intend to pay the small fee because I want this place to thrive. So much better than any other music sites. Way to go!

Posted by: Melody at January 17, 2006 12:46 AM

I've been a member of Pandora since mid October 2005, and honestly think I couldn't get through my work day in London without Pandora on my earphones! Thanks for introducing me to lots of great new artists.

Posted by: Anna Ashworth at January 17, 2006 04:37 AM

Hey guys. I am a professional musician from Dallas, and was just turned on to this service by a colleage. This is twelve shades of fabulous. For years I worked in record stores, so was always up on the latest and greatest. Now, I travel mostly in classical circles, and am kind of bad about keeping up.

At any rate, I am really glad to have found you guys. Keep up the good work. I travel quite a bit, and use my computer as my jukebox when I am gone...so this is great!

Kevin

Posted by: Kevin at January 17, 2006 10:28 AM

This is really awesome that you guys are doing this. Very revolutionary for music. I do have a suggestion though. I haven't played around with the music too much, but I know that a few anime songs I have searched for were not to be found. I would suggest more anime songs, j-pop songs, and international songs in general. I suggest listening to Live365 for some really good songs of these various genres for you guys to analyze. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Posted by: Salome at January 17, 2006 01:00 PM

Hey ive been using Pandora for about 2 months now, and all i can say is, .. .. WOW. Pandora helped me find a whole new style of music that i absolutly love. I think its the greatest thing ever. And, i have been trying to spread it around my friends here at Purdue. If u have any suggestions how to get people more involved with Pandora let me know, I'd for this to replace MTV some day. Less hype, Less Fake, More music, More me!

Dustin Gentis

Posted by: Dustin at January 17, 2006 05:50 PM

I almost forgot, go strait for a platform like XMradio, i buy the little device that i make my channels on, put it in my car, and via satalite, play all my favorite channels from pandora in my car. and when songs come on that i don't care for, press the thumbs down button. Go ahead use that idea if u want, im just glad i have Pandora.com

Posted by: Dustin at January 17, 2006 05:53 PM

It would be so amazing to have Pandora on the IPod.

Posted by: joe at January 17, 2006 06:12 PM

Pandora is fantastic!
Perhaps there could be a playback button to repeat a song?

Posted by: j.s. at January 17, 2006 08:20 PM

Question: Once Pandora becomes Google sized Are you going to explore new areas that might influence the music industry? Such as perhaps publishing a quarterly for musicians so they can get details of what people like (in their genre). I cant help but to think that this is going to affect pop culture because we aren't being dictated to as to "what we like" AND the fact that you encourage "garage bands" to send their music in will lead to a more dynamic and varied musical enviroment. Perhaps commercial radio stations would be willing pay for the right to stream from a collection stations generated by your customers? I believe that Pandora will soon be riding the crest of a big wave. By the way, I love my four stations and have become adept at hearing a song I like and "sending it" to the apropriate station. I have discovered new groups that I like and a lot of wonderful music. BIG THANK-YOU!

Posted by: Dan at January 17, 2006 10:22 PM

Just wanted to post a big THANX!..this project is simply great

Posted by: Jaya at January 17, 2006 11:13 PM

Pandora is awesome!

it would be cool if i could play my station on a site such as myspace or xanga

Posted by: Mike at January 18, 2006 12:20 AM

congrats on getting this project going, i love almost every song that comes up on my station.

one quick question though: any way to get rid of the occasional low bit-rate songs? it sounds horrible when one comes on right after a near cd quality song plays.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

Posted by: Machiventa at January 18, 2006 10:02 AM

Very Impressed!! I think one feature that would be very well received would be one lending the ability to take your database of A's,T's,C's and musical G's and design our own DNA, rather than necessarily pointing out a specific animal. I know I'd love it. Not that I don't already love this. Thanks for this wonderful service! This is the next big thing for sure.

Posted by: Alex at January 18, 2006 08:29 PM

My gosh--this is an amazing site. I put in "Chicago" and am listening to music that is a kissin' cousin to the Chicago sound I love.

What's next?

Posted by: Judy at January 18, 2006 08:45 PM

Bloody... This is the website i've been looking for for a long time. Me happy velly happy!!

Posted by: Jos van Beek at January 18, 2006 11:36 PM

I just heard about your page on a German radio progamme. The page is great! I love the idea! Hope you'll get a licence for Germany as well - I'd so love to register!

Posted by: Alex at January 19, 2006 04:16 AM

This is a great idea! I also imagined this system in a car stereo environment. Beats the crappy radio we have here in Portugal! This could be a really big thing! Is there a widget version on the books? The only thing I don't like about Pandora is the browser dependence. It would be excellent to have a winamp/media player plugin or replacement. Keep up the great work!!

Posted by: Rodin at January 19, 2006 05:32 AM

thank u pandora team for this great site

but please increase participation in the blog site

for example

listeners could open a entry for an issue and some comments can be written down there

not for every user because of legal stuff but
may be we can give a suggestion and you can
choose one of them for weekly issue

so the different view may help you to develop this site

respect n peace
turkiye

Posted by: felis at January 19, 2006 05:58 PM

I want to add The Homeless Bones, spanish rock band.
How Can I?

Posted by: Eme Navarro at January 20, 2006 03:02 AM

great site - within 10 minutes of signing on to the site i am hooked...with a cd collection of 3100+ cds at home it is nice to pop in three distinct but different artists (imogen heap, jonatha brooke, and lamb) and get back a wide range of stuff that I already own and love mixed with stuff I havent heard (or have been meaning to listen too) but am really enjoying.

a really nice feature would be to be able to go back and see your playlist for the past day (or week)...especially if I want to track down a song or do a little more research on an artist and forget to flag them...

keep up the good work :)

Posted by: jason at January 20, 2006 07:22 AM

Put Pandora in BlackBerrys

Posted by: K at January 20, 2006 10:53 AM

You guys/gals have tapped into something unbelievable! Directed by a good friend, I was immediately hooked on the first suggested track the program picked. Be prepared for a boom with Pândora, word of mouth will spread this around like wildfire! I cannot begin to describe how amazing the program is! Kudos!

Posted by: camelchild at January 20, 2006 02:18 PM

Okay, so I am, like, so freaking in love with Pandora already and its only been a few days... I only have one wish on my wishlist - I want to be able to rewind and fast forward songs as they play! Please please please add this feature. Bless you.

Posted by: savvyjake at January 20, 2006 03:57 PM

I love this. Thank you!!

Posted by: Jimmy at January 20, 2006 07:07 PM

I just wanted you guys to know that.. well... I'M IN LOVE WITH PANDORA! You are geniuos! This is the most amazing music project I've ever stumbled across. Keep up the good work. Bless you.

Posted by: Isola at January 21, 2006 03:06 AM

Imagine the metrics data y'all will generate over time. I'm thinkin' record companies and artists would love to know what styles people like the best. It's like you've broken down tunes into musical and stylistic elements, and can weight and sort on those elements. It's freakin' amazing! :)

Posted by: wb at January 21, 2006 07:22 AM

A downloadable app would make this perfect. Nice work.

Posted by: Sagar V, at January 21, 2006 09:30 AM

does anyone know how many analysts/technicians Pandora employs?

have been debating this with friends and we'd really like the argument settled!! thanks, great work guys.

Posted by: Dan at January 21, 2006 11:15 AM

Just Love it, period.

one suggestion: how about a "mixed" radio station? you could select from which of your stations it would choose music from, and when you thumb up/down a song it could be reflected in the station it was chosen from...

KUDOS

Posted by: judas at January 21, 2006 01:45 PM

Hey!!
Just to say that Pandora is really one of the best things I've ever discovered on the web !!!

You make people happy with music !!!
Thanks a lot !

Posted by: Alma at January 21, 2006 02:12 PM

This is fantastic. The only thing I couldn't get was classical music such as Mozart. When I requested Amadeus Mozart the closest artist was Bizzart.

Other than this snaggle, this is absolutely brilliant!!

Thank you for bringing such beautiful music back into my life.
Fawn

Posted by: Fawn Annan at January 21, 2006 08:56 PM

I have been using pandora since my friend showed it to me on xmass. I love it like crazy. I think it would be great if you guys came out with an optimized Linux app that would run with less processor power. Thank you for creating this sweet, sweet, goodness.

Posted by: Josh Reynolds at January 22, 2006 05:31 PM

Hi, I love the service! but sometimes there are small bugs -- like right now I can't update stations. It would be good to have a note in the blogs about service interruptions.

Posted by: OOri at January 23, 2006 08:08 AM

So fantastic! Exactly what I have been looking for in life... really. This makes so much sense and it's about time it came about... hope you guys continue to expand and get all the success you deserve with this ingenious idea!

Posted by: Erin at January 23, 2006 01:14 PM

This is definitely a step in the right direction as far as intuitive technology is concerned. But I have a question, how does the system know what I have on my mind when I characterise my taste with an artist or song name? You obviously take the 'genetic' signature of the song based on your music genome project and match that with similar songs. Do you also have an expert system or a learning system that helps you quantify individual preferences and personalities to make the choice of 'similar music' more intuitive and personalised?

Posted by: Ajay at January 24, 2006 01:54 AM

Well, i found Pandora yesterday and it is great. your honesty and respect to music as a serius art is adorable.

tip:
when you click on to move to another song of station or when you click the "thumb down" sign it would be better if the song would fade out instead of being cutted.

Thank you for your great idea!
Amir Bieber , Israel

Posted by: Amir at January 24, 2006 12:48 PM

Like so many others, I'm thrilled with Pandora. I've been able to reconnect with music I haven't heard in years.

I haven't read all the above comments, but I'm wondering if there's a way for feedback about the music matches? By and large, your matches are spot on, but some flavors sit on overlaps in some Venn diagram somewhere and wind up getting a varied mix that is sometimes hit and sometimes miss.

But then... I suppose you've already built that in with the ol' "I like it" "I don't like it" menu. Of course you already covered that... well done!

Posted by: rupert piston at January 24, 2006 02:51 PM

yes, its awesome. genius. better than napster was, even...maybe :)

Posted by: audiophile86 at January 24, 2006 04:01 PM

Pandora meets the iPod

In order to truly enable this feature you should allow for saving of our pandora "radio stations" in 30 or 60 minute segments. Then upload the segment to the iPod in the form of a "Pandora Playlist" in iPod format and voila! Pandora meets the iPod.

The only thing you need to figure out is the security.

Good Luck and keep up with this absolutely brilliant product!

Posted by: Faith McGregor at January 24, 2006 08:02 PM

Just discovered Pandora. This is so great! Thank you!

Posted by: Jan Herps at January 25, 2006 01:49 AM

love your stuff, I listen at work nearly every day. One observation I'd like to make though.
Being a Christian,with a taste for contemporary Christian music, I find you have a real gap in your coverage/understanding of the genre and the great artists available. Maybe this is something you could expand in the future. This is in no way critical of your work. Keep up the great job your doing. Wish I was younger and living in Oakland, I'd be appling for a job. ;-)

Posted by: Patricia at January 25, 2006 03:01 PM

Hi, thanks for this amazing service. I work as a tech for a web hosting company at night and this really helps keep my sanity. I posted about you guys today on my blog.

http://www.sethsblog.com/

Take care and keep up the good work.

Seth

Posted by: Seth at January 26, 2006 01:07 AM

More meetups! I'm in Berkeley and missed MacWorld...

Posted by: Derick at January 26, 2006 03:32 PM

Hi,

Just wanted to mention here that I made an LJ Community for pandora users so we could talk amongst ourselves, share stations and inspire each other. Unless it gets a troll infestation, I will leave it open for anonymous, so readers/commenters don't have to be an LJ member.

http://community.livejournal.com/pandora_music/

I also proposed a challenge asking people to come up with a Pandora station they could send to their Valentine. Mine is currently under development, but I am not happy with it yet. I have made two stations I am happy with. I posted them in the community and I'll post them here too:

http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh1989087 Ska-Culation Radio (Ska/Swing)

http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh5622863 Sweet Strings Radio (Blue Grassy Instrumental without too much banjo)

I am really enjoying this site. I would never have found music I now love without it. Thanks so much.

Posted by: Edith at January 26, 2006 10:15 PM

Congratulation !
i like it so much... ;)

Fabienne / Annecy - France

Posted by: FabieZ at January 27, 2006 05:08 AM

Wonderful project!

Posted by: axelspin at January 27, 2006 07:53 AM

I have blabbed about Pandora so much that you'd think I owned stock! I've had it on non-stop for 5 days. Can't even bring myself to listen to regular radio anymore!
You have several new converts at my job and I've never seen anything spread so quickly by word of mouth!
Insane!!!

Love it! You are on the verge of a revolution. It's gonna be fun!

Posted by: Alicia St. Rose at January 27, 2006 10:25 AM

Have been listening to the music, almost to the point of addiction, as commented on by my significant other. I am amazed that the thing works on a pre-OSX Mac with a 30KBPS modem and 250 MH processor, but work it does, and very nicely indeed, as well as having obscure Canadian bands such as The Hip and Blood Sweat and Tears on tap almost on request! Minor glitches such as slow loading and multiple non- aborts of slowing scripts for Flash player are well worth the trouble for the quality and quantity of beautiful music. I can hardly wait for Tim and Tom to grow internationally, add the classical and world music sections, and improve their already impressive project, and hope I can soon legally subscribe to the Deluxe Canadian edition. I have been spreading the word and enjoying Pandora, in its present state, the best of the Web.

Posted by: Herbert at January 27, 2006 11:58 AM

hi friends;

Finaly we can listen what we want .

Many thanks to pandora team

Posted by: Driss at January 27, 2006 12:51 PM

awesome service! just take your ads out please!

Posted by: radioheadict at January 27, 2006 02:55 PM

hey i when i make a statoin with multiple artistas that i put in i wanna know why ur playing that like what artist is it similiar too that would be just smahing thx

Posted by: wizard at January 27, 2006 06:32 PM

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;-)

Posted by: Francisco Sandoval at January 27, 2006 07:57 PM

Hello-- this is great, sure hope it last forever.
Good to help buy music

Posted by: Great Smith at January 28, 2006 06:26 AM

Just a question... I introduced the band Mogwai in Pandora, and after few songs started Dream Theater?!
What is the real connection between them!

Is then Pandora maybe just an idea to support some bands, inserting their song in more collection, not only following musical influences and analogies ?!

How many money Apple invested in this commercial project?..

It's just a thought
Bye.. and good music to everyone!

Posted by: axelspin at January 28, 2006 07:34 AM

A friend of mine who is not into music as much as I am, and I have a stack of DVD's to watch tonight, but man I am so hooked on your site. Now when I am able to get this into my car I will have died and gone to heaven. What great freaking site. I have no need for XM. This plays what I want to here. Keep up the good work, and when you guys go public. Please let all of us know. Thanks again for one of the best site's on the web. And I am curious what other's may think, but I think a chat room that will let people share there thoughts about shared music would be great!
Thanks

Posted by: Verve at January 28, 2006 06:55 PM

This is awsome, keep up the good work, but you're missing two major spanish singing bands, "Enanitos Verdes" and "Mana". Get them on Pandora, and I think I'll buy a subscription.

Posted by: J.J. at January 29, 2006 03:07 PM

If you all got this on Ipod I'd love you all forever. Not sure how it would work, but you all are the smart ones here. I've been a subscriber for a long time and I can't believe how many bands I've never heard of that I end up loving. I don't think I've bought a CD in the past couple months that I haven't heard of the band off of here first. But if you got this on Ipod... wow. I probably wouldn't ever listen to regular radio again.

Posted by: Eric Miller at January 29, 2006 08:45 PM

What a sensational site!

Pandora is a brilliant bit of technology. I'm interested in how the music genome works - how and what you tag, how it's organised.

If I could get my pandora stations on my iPod I'd be hooked for life! Podcast anyone?

Posted by: greta at January 30, 2006 02:19 AM

i love the service - when do you think you'll be able to include international artists and asian pop? :)

Posted by: aingealis at January 30, 2006 07:02 AM

I thought you might be interested in what people are doing with applications for Pandora that go beyond the ipod axis. I discovered Pandora a few weeks ago and had been building stations for my own pleasure. It occurred to me that there were further explorations that could be done.

I teach photography in an undergrad visual arts program. We have been working with seeding photographic images with previous material, building a visual dialogue between students' work. I decided to introduce Pandora as part of the project - this is the soundscape version. We will also include playing the station as an integral component of a exhibition in May.

Many thanks.

Posted by: profpes at January 30, 2006 12:48 PM

What an amazing concept you have created. A brilliant way for someone to expose themselves to a variety of artists that they possibly would have never run across.

Oh, to be working for such an amazing company full of creative thought, musical expression and like-minded individuals! If only you were located in Oregon, I'd be striving to be a part of your concept team! Thanks again for existing!

Posted by: Shawn at January 30, 2006 02:11 PM

Never mind the ipod - can someone work out a way to access Pandora using a PSP?...

Posted by: Pandora at January 30, 2006 02:18 PM

Just found this site and would like to say: AMAZING! You guys have found a truly sensational concept here. Congrats!

Posted by: Deadly Doomham at January 30, 2006 10:10 PM

This site is amazing, but I have one question:
Why is it that when I try to find Ludwig Van Beethoven, I cannot? Surely he deserves a station!

Posted by: Deadly Doomham at January 30, 2006 10:18 PM

bill site would love to have it the u/k had it for a try but now have to have us zip code
yours Mr b M Thurman
england

Posted by: brian at January 31, 2006 11:36 AM

Don`t get it on Ipod`s... Get it on handled computers using Wi-Fi or on SmartPhones who can connect to mobile Internet. It will be much easier, isn`t it?
Another suggestion: I`m from Israel, and I think your Idea is great. the only problem for me and my friends is that Pandora includes only English songs. Why wouldn`t you try to make a kind of Local-Pandora? You may try selling permits to people all over the world: You`ll supply the trademark "Pandora" and the basic Algorithems, And they will upload the music, classificate it by Parameters and pay the copy rights... This way, You`ll enlarge your music database with minimal efforts on your side, and all the listeners would be able to hear great music also on thier native language.

Anyway - You`re great !!!

Posted by: Gil at February 1, 2006 07:21 AM

WOW. Ok, my want list is as follows:

1 - Allow me to export my list of what I pandora just played to me - so I can go purchase it - you're kind a there with the links to amazon and itunes.. - this would be easy, or display a history of it.

2 - What about consumer devices - I want my soundbridge or a Slim squeezebox to be able to stream pandora - and be able to vote my 'love it' / 'hate it' with the remote - I could play music all day long, and all night, and well, to hell with my personal collection - I'm sure the Roku folk would code an interface into their player software...

2 - consider exposing the metrics you're using to select tracks to allow people to do 'more rocky', slower, faster, downbeat etc,while listeningm you could do this without giving away your technology I'm sure.

3 - IPOD and other portable players- clearly the time is not yet nigh - streaming to mobile devices is not the future, its' too expensive, unless you live in an all-you-can eat tariff environment, but the WIFI wireless IPOD/MP3 player will appear, I fortell this and others have in the past - but clearly the opportunity exists to access this service while on the move - especially if you conside options like:

- Add the DRM into the stream, or package the material in 1hour MP3's or (sorry MP4's) something, hell make the DRM explode it after 7 days so I cant play it past then - so what if I give it to other people, if it explodes after a few days then so-what , they might buy stuff too.. but let me track what I REALLY liked and might want to buy. - I wouldnt care if it only lasted a week but my ipod remembered what i REALLY liked, and what i didnt - you need to make the player on the ipod similar ,so you can skip tracks on the move as well -not so easy when you're in a single 'big' file.. - consider that if you package up the material into 1 hour chunks, as soon as a player can get wi-fi connectivity, i can 'charge up' with another hours music.. just an idea.

What an opportunity - clearly there is huge business scope for people to 'rent' material that they 'might' like, for a limited period of time, rather than own it indefinatley, if I like it I can buy the track.= IMHO this is the future of on-demand music.

I wish you success- hope you do this, and make it big before someone else does and profits from it 8-)

But you must sort out your distribution licenses with your publishers, the internet should be the end of country-specific discrimination.. I dont care where the end-user is, if they pay you money, they should be able to eat here 8-(

Posted by: Mart at February 1, 2006 12:31 PM

Add the capability to create new stations with information encoded in the URL -- this could be combined with Applescript to add the capability in iTunes to automatically create a station based on a selected iTunes track or artist. That would be cool.

Posted by: Derick at February 1, 2006 02:27 PM

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Posted by: Scott Fitchet at February 1, 2006 02:35 PM

I read the article in the LA times about Pandora and Immediately brought it up when I got home from work, I wasn't disappointed and have been here for hours. Best new concept in online music for years. Absolutely incredible...Great work.
Don

Posted by: Don at February 5, 2006 02:27 PM

Thanks to the Music Genome Project for allowing us to drop into the vast ocean of music and find new streams we might never otherwise encounter.

Your service enlarges my world with choices that open opportunities to learn new music.

Thank you, many times over.

Posted by: Tom at February 12, 2006 08:52 AM

Great service. Other than adjust my own speaker equalizer, is there a Pandora-side equalizer I can adjust?

Thanks
Jay

Posted by: Jay Ryan at June 11, 2006 12:59 PM

I'm asking myself: How can it be that I've never ran through your site before? It's a great one! when table play cosmos anticipate

Posted by: bet chair is very good table at July 18, 2006 08:36 AM

WHEN and WHERE will you be in LA (if not in Org. Co. which is closer for me)?

First time user today and I'm in with both feet. Heard about you from friend in Chicago.

Love Female Vocal Jazz and Smooth Jazz. Dave Koz is on 94.7 fm in the a.m. out here, get him at your LA mtg.!

Carl "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64" Morrison

Posted by: cptrtchr at August 14, 2006 02:20 PM

Pandora's great. Had it less than a day and what a awesome idea!!
How about the San Diego music scene since LA is just up the road? There are a lot of talented people in the music scene down here just waiting for a chance. Let me know if you guys are interested because I have contacts for you.

Posted by: Dave at August 17, 2006 10:01 AM

I find your Music Genome Project absolutely fascinating. I am adding to my music stations every day. I use some of them for setting the mood in my classroom. When and where will you make your appearance in the L.A. area and the times? Any chance you'll swing by the San Bernardino/Riverside area? Also, I would love to see you add Asian, Arabic, and African music as well. Thanks a bunch.

Posted by: RENO at September 5, 2006 02:52 PM

I would like to be able to play Pandora thru my Soundbridge. Can I , please!!!!??? How do I do it?
I love Pandora and I want to listen to it all the time.
thanks.

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