Speaking for myself and my group of friends, we have discovered so much amazing music on Pandora, music that we had never heard of, that we're spending more and more of our free time and free cash attending live music shows; the shows of the artists we discovered on Pandora!

Sunday night, in fact, some friends and I went to hear KT Tunstall at The Fillmore. It was a superb show, and as the three of us chatted, we realized that none of us would have heard of her if not for Pandora. In fact, the reason KT's music was added to Pandora this winter was because you wrote to us and suggested that we add her music to our collection. So thanks to you, our unofficial music scouts. We're all reaping the benefits of your careful listening.

cheers, Lucia

written while listening to:
Benny Goodman Radio

An elderly gentleman wrote to me last week to tell me how much he and his wife are enjoying Pandora. He said that this Benny Goodman station was taking them back in time to his high school days, almost 70 years ago. Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Red Norvo, Eddie Daniels, Count Basie, etc. I added Benny Goodman Radio to my list of stations, and I've got to say, it's putting a big fat smile on my face.

Because it's not just about discovering brand new music, but also about (re)discovering the stuff you've missed or forgotten about.

Hey guys,

I think what you're doing will be great for the music industry. Sinse discovering a few songs I liked from artists I didnt know about. I went and bought 5 cd's. I bought some Insane Clown Possy and some The Streets cd's and I like them.

Thanks for the great music. I love picking what I want as I get a large varity of music that I can't get any where else. I go from heavy metal to ABBA. Pretty funny! Except someone tried sneaking in a few country and western. YUCK! Thank goodness for the "I don't like this song" button!

Lucia,

thanks for listening to us =:-)

i've been working on a list of music i'd love to hear added to Pandora. it will be sent this week.

jb

My station has several different genres - cool jazz, electronic, new age, some others. The station seems to get 'stuck' on one genre unless I say I don't like a song. I may not actually dislike the song but I get tired of hearing similar music after a while. I'd like to hear more of a mix if possible.

I'm also finding many old favorites from the 1960's/1970's aren't available. Is this because they weren't released on DVD, only vinyl? Peter Maunu was released on DVD but isn't available on your service - yet? :-)

Thanks and I love the service.

Cheers,
Bracey

Hey!

Loving Pandora so far. Just wondering about the way bands and songs that are not recognized are reported to the staff. I've been trying to make some D-beat (hardcore punk) and Tekno (underground acid/gabber from NL and France) stations, and Pandora keeps telling me: "I didn't find anything, but we'll look in to it." How does this work?

Thanks!

I listen to a lot of jazz and just love Pandora. I find that it provides a good mix of music almost all the time. Occasionally it will drift from, say, Bill Evans to stride piano ... but by the time it does that I am usually wanting to listen to something else anyway!

Keep up the great work.

Hello, I love Pandora, but I would also like to hear the band Iris! :)

I showed it to my dad last week. I asked him what he wanted to hear and he said "Glen Miller" and then we got Dorsey, Goodman, etc.

He was impressed. :-)
Ken

I'm enjoying Pandora a lot, and would like to make one minor suggestion: A merge-stations button would be great feature, allowing users to mix-up the music they listen to. I know I sure could use it!

Thanks,
-Shaun

Your site restores confidence that good music will prevail! Keep up the good work.

Two suggestions
1- a way to merge stations temporarily, as noted above, would be fantastic
2 - create some way to exclude maintream songs

Thanks!

Pandora is really great! How about Classical music. Beethoven and others have awesome compositions out there.

You know, I would just love to be able to restrict my stations by genre or even by time period. My station "The Twangerie" is great except for the occasional modern day pop country that comes across or the odd Jewel song and what not. Being able to tell Pandora to only play "country western from the fifties" would be AWESOME! Is it possible?

oooh, another idea:
Create a way for Pandora to genome-map my own music managed by itunes and then create really smart playlists based on a few songs that I select

That would be COOL!

"How about Classical music."

I imagine that classical music would be some type of "hell" to have to review and categorize into 400 or so "descriptors/genes".

Beethoven, for instance, is 100 times as complicated as Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry, or Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin.

I think people can find good classical music today easier than they can find good contemporary music.
Most of it's been written already, after all.

I discovered Pandora two days ago, and I love it! My fav-list ist already two pages long. I really have to consider now what to put in...

Perhaps one suggestion: would be nice if you could influence the direction the station will drift. Eg "sounds very nice, but a bit more funky". But easier said than done, I know!

What an amazing site. I have been listening to the internet radio for a long while but Pandora has it beat hands down. I love the way it pulls songs with the same type of sound. My only complaint is that I can't listen to it on my PDA cell phone(no flash player) like I can the internet radio. Keep up the good work. It's greatly appreciated.

Stewart

There is nothing better than recognizing feedback from the people who use and talk about Pandora the most. That is one of the reasons you guys have done so well - and long may it continue!

Thank you Lucia for your time and energy put into Pandora for our enjoyment! ... and for the Benny Goodman Radio tip ;)

I own a small business and can now play TONS of great music without annoying commercials and DJ's (and having to switch cd's out).
I have just about every genre of music that I like covered and only occasionally have to thumbs down certain tracks.

After 6 months of avidly listening to Pandora's great selection of music, I'm still very impressed!!

I gave up on radio years ago. Itunes/Ipod is great but takes hours to customise. Been listening to Pandora for the first time today and must say I am totally digging it! Thanks for developing such a neat app. Have recommened to all my mates, music consumers and producers alike. No negative feedback, though the interface/website looks a little tired. CHEERS!

Hey, Lucia.

Just yesterday I heard a song by Black Tie Dynasty and loved it. I went to their website and found out they're from within my metroplex and I had never heard of them! They're playing in the town where I live this Thursday. So a big thanks to Pandora for planning my Thursday night! :)

Feature Suggestion:

There are times I want to give a song a thumbs down, but there's really only 1 specific thing I dislike about the song ... most of the song's characteristics are great. It would really help to further "hone" the personalization of stations if you allowed the user to select from a preset list of reasons for giving a song a thumbs down. This could be an optional step, and by using a preset list, you could easily programmatically adjust the selection behavior of the station based on the feedback given.

Heck, if you wanted to get this granular, you could make the feedback selection list simply a list of the criteria you judge a song by. Add the song's value for that criterion to the filter set for the station and voila, you're done. (Of course you'd want to organize the display by category for ease of use.)

Anyway, keep up the good work. Pandora rocks!

- David
Ben Zephyr

What a wonderful thing this is. I have had so much fun today and can see it being a wonderful selection tool. Are you thinking about doing anything with classical music. That would be too cool for words.

I just stumbled across Pandora by chance when looking up the story of Pandora's box! What are the chances?

Amazing idea, endless hours of entertainment! Thank you very much! :-)

I love what I've heard so far. Duplicating a question I posed to support: I think it would be great if I could cycle through all the "stations" I've created, either in order or at random.
Pandora is the next step up from CD's and a CD player. Your artificial intellegence programming lets me have it my way, free of music I don't care for, mindless d.j. chatter, etc. It also leaves me free from mega corporations who buy my favorite station, and then completely change the programming to whatever they think will sell, sometimes going to a genre I hate so bad I abandon the station.
Thank y', thank y' v'ry much.

Hey, how do I suggest music to be put in Pandora?
I am brazilian and I would like to sugest some brazilian mainstream bands to pe added in the radio. how do I do?

Great site..best on the web...hands down.

As for everyone making demands to make this change or that change, hey, it's a free site. Every change that gets done costs money. How many of you are paid up subscribers?? This site will likely go Pay-per-use eventually so enjoy it while it's still free FFS.

Congrats on the site, exactly what many of us have been looking for for A LONG time. Cheers!

I think it might be fun to include "side B's" of various artists. I mean, the songs that didn't make it on the radio, but still were all right. Perhaps a "side B" selection option would be nice.

You've got it goin' here. Thank you!

This is the greatest music staion ever! It might take a while to find the exact genre with all the perfect songs to fit your needs but with patience it suddenly happens!! For smooth jazz lovers, try Hubert Laws for great intrumentals and hardly anything you will give a thumbs down. Still trying to find Patriotic music station though,that sticks to that genre only. Keep up the good work!

Hey,

I was wondering if there could be some kind of list of music genes that you guys use, and some way for us to select which genes we like for a particular station.

this morning i have emailed over one hundrted friends to tell them about this pandora thing. this is the best music i have ever listen to. it makes my work day fly by. thanks guys!!!!

I agree with Yassmin. What happens is we like to narrow down a certain type of music so it fits into a small genre. Listening to this one genre for hours gets boring after a while even though we like the music. It would be good to create groups of stations that are switched at random, or in order (our preference) to give some variety. This would be like at a good concert where a band will mix up playing fast and slow songs because you can't stay in a frenzy for too long, you need to relax from it from time to time. You can't combine the slow and fast songs in one station because that will get everything in between. This would allow us to not have to manually switch stations, and just listen to the great music. As each new song played, the station highlight would track it.

Bottom line, allow us to create groups of stations from which you will randomly switch.

The future looks bright for you guys, thanks for the site.

Hi,

If there's a better place to suggest bands to add I'd like to know, but otherwise: what about adding Dead Poetic and Zeromancer to the collection? I'd be interested to see how they'd be classified...

Other than that, Pandora is a great service! I look forward to the moments I can sit enjoying your music selections.

Hi

I'm french and live in NY! and damn it i looooove Pandora..work really flies faster!

Anyway i created a station for MC Solaar(French HipHop) but there's no MC Solaar songs...i have all other artists like A tribe and Rakim and Guru....blablabla but haven't heard one song from Mc Solaar!
Now i knw this is supposed to make us discover new artsits and all...but ..come on...just one song from the guy i requested...PLEASE!!!!!

Cheers...
Peace! and travel people! TRRRAAAVVVEELLLLLLL the world is a beautiful place filled with good intentions, Peace and Love!
Jah Bless!

Benito

Sometimes, I want more of stuff like a song I heard, but it's just something about the song, not everything about the song that I like. Or I want to hear more songs like it, but that particular song doesn't light me up.

How about two levels of I Like It? I like it and I Like It a Lot!

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Would it make sense to have a quality button?

Do reviewers agree on quality? I mean, some songs in a genre seem the same based on several dimensions, but one just hits the spot like none of the others. It's like a couple of Alicia Keys' songs are quite like other singers', but theirs don't hold a candle to hers. Same with Ozzy - few songs can touch Crazy Train. Even Mozart wrote some pieces that are clearly recognizable as his, but I'll pass on them because they aren't Divertimento in D or Piano Concerto #23. Consider adding a quality button - or, better, having your official reviewers give songs quality ratings.

Hello and thank you! I just discovered this site today, and was greatly suprised. What a wonderful concept! I love it!

Unfourtnately you havent added one of my favorite electronica bands jet. You find them at http://www.ugress.com/ along with lots of free downloads! Hope you add them soon, 'cause they are great musicians.

If you are relatively new to Pandora, as I am, about one month in, don't forget to check out the Slim Devices Squeezebox. I picked on up shortly after starting my Pandora subscription. I can now listen to my Pandora on any receiver within "wireless" distance of my computer. This is fantastic...taking it Pandora to the living room, out to the garage, in the back yard. Totally satisfied with Pandor and slimdevices.com.

Hey. I think it would be cool if you had a feature where you could make stations but instead of picking songs, you could pick certain qualities, such as blues influences, guitar solo, mixed electric and acoustic instrumentation, whatever. Just a thought.

I've bought more CDs from listening to this service than I ever did in iTunes, Winamp Radio, or Napster (2.0) combined. It's really a shame it can't be offered via satellite, but who knows? Perhaps a day will come where we can stream the internet from any moving vehicle we want. Until then, it's nice to have a high-quality radio station that breaks the monotony of cheap paint, ugly office furniture, and flourescent lighting.

I like Linda Rondstadt, Perry Como, Andy Williams,Vaugn Monroe, Glen Miller

Re all the indie garage stuff that gets submitted... Makes me think there ought to be an "indie-only pandora", consisting only of these manually submitted artists. The genome matches could still be based on the same corpus as "real" Pandora, but *only* play submitted music. So when searching for "Britney Spears", instead of just getting Christina and Pink and etc., you'd get none of that and get music that was truly new to you.

Crazy idea, I know. I'm full of them.

My friend has been harrassing me to try Pandora for some time now, I finally sat down today to visit it and so far I have been hooked on it for 4 HOURS straight!!! I regret not listening to him a few weeks back and discover you guys then. Better late then never.. I have a great feeling Pandora and I will be the GREATEST of friends!! THANK YOU to him and to you guys!!!!!!!!

Just started using Pandora. It took me a little while to figure the types of algorythms Pandora must be using. It doesn't seem to have much long term memory. Typing in a significantly different request radically changes the nature of the station.

Initially, I kept requesting performers and intentionally rewarding alternative choices that moved in a slightly different direction. This would produce a an entirely different station. EG: I requested an obscure folk singer, enjoyed several supplementary folk tunes, gave a plus to a gospel song and quickly was listening to a Christian music station! I kept waiting for it to go back to all or even any of my previous requests.

Instead of being some kind of digital dj with an ability to mathematically weight all my choices it's much more like focused surfing. Consequently it seems best for users to keep their requests and rewarded selections to a moderate level if they want a coherent station.

That being the case I would certainly agree with other posters that being able to automatically mix radio stations would be a welcome option.

As for category options I imagine that this might not be easy to do with your program. Perhaps you could provide a web page with several available performers names listed under each category. Using a conventional search engine to come with pandora available performers in categories like ukulele, banjo, zydeco or traditional Quebec music is very difficult and time consuming. Especially, if after much trial and error it becomes apparent that Pandora doesn't include _any_ performers from that category. Need I mention classical.

I want to make it clear that I'm impressed by Pandora. It's much better than almost any of the internet radio stations that I use and is always available and without annoying buffering problems and lost connections.

About the feedback you can give to Pandora: I agree that it would be nice to tell Pandora in more detail what you like and what not. But don't make it too complicated and in depth. On one hand you would exactly get what you wanted. On the other, you would filter out all the random findings you didn't thought about they ever existed!

Eg I'm listening now to electronica music with "indian influences". There is some groovy stuff I never thought of - it's by pure chance because Pandora thought it's cool.

A few days ago I launched a Pandora station by searching for one of your employees, Michael Zapruder, someone I recently met & saw peform live. I heard music from some of my friends and even some of my clients: Ryan Auffenberg, Matt Nathanson, Josh Rouse, etc. When my coworkers came into my office to cool off from the heat, they all fell silent and soon were bobbing their heads to Josh and Michael and the others. 5 songs later, one coworker asked what cool CD compliation I was playing. I introduced them to my Pandora station and now they all want to create their stations here on my Mac and bring their lunches to my office to listen and relax. These are 5 coworkers who otherwise wouldn't have come up to visit me! Had it not been for my air conditioner and the Pandora station I created earlier, these coworkers would have continued to be strangers. Now I have music buddies and you have 5 new users! Thank you ;)

Hey! This service is sooo cool; I just love it! A friend told me about it, and now I'm spreading the word. The only thing I'm wanting to see, other than the awesome suggestion of random shuffling, is categorization by genre content. In other words, I'd like a purely "Christian" station, but I get a mixture of DC Talk and A Tribe Called Quest. Now, although I dig both, I would love to have a station of only Christian-themed songs. Thanks so much for listening to us...it helps us keep listening to you!

In addition to the current choices, how about some way to choose a specific decade or year? There are often trends in popular music that can be captured by a date range.
Thanks for listening

I would love to see the ability to integrate Pandora and Last.FM so that all my friends can see EVERYTHING I listen too instead of whatever iTunes and Winamp uploads.

I love the service even if nothing changes. It is pretty A-OK with me as is. New artists that Pandora exposed me to: Catie Curtis, The Confession, Melanie Doane, Texas, and many others. Many thanks!

Hi! Today I knew pandora! It is a great service so I am very satisfied and congratulations to you. I have seen in your web that during this year youll be extending the Latin music, really it makes me happy and it is evident that you are giving the best thing of you. Congratulations again. :)!!!!!

Not just to start that's the surprise fewest: The claim of Music get stop now! It was a search of a found! It's true!!

I love Pandora -- it seemed to get "trained" to my preferences MUCH faster than Yahoo Launch ever did, and pops up much more interesting music.

But please oh please -- is there any way to play it on my Treo 650 with PocketTunes? It does not seem to play nicely with my browser, blazer -- so many other streams work, I hope Pandora can.

Hi
I used to love the Pandora interface. However, it has changed to become unresponsive and hence almost unusable. Any chance the old interface can return?

-Masood

How about Pandora partnering with a lyrics database? That way one could automatically scroll the lyrics to the song that is currently playing.

Don't know about others, but I would Love something like that.

Scepter.

I've been enjoying this, but the search interface drives me nuts. If there's no match, it gives the announcement about always looking for cool ideas (yeah, sure, whatever), but if there is a close match, it gives you a listing of the matches. There is no way to give the feedback that the search failed, other than to not select anything. Does that get recorded?

Movielens has a suggestion interface -- if a movie is considered and either accepted or rejected, you can get an e-mail about letting you know. That would be kind of cool, so I don't have to keep remembering to search for the band in question every so often.

How do you manage to keep track of Pandora users, since I always delete my cookies and cache after exiting my Internet browser, but when I relog, my email adress reappears?

I just discovered Pandora yesterday. This... is BRILLIANT. I've never even heard of anything like Pandora before! I'm showing it off to all my broadband-equipped friends, and they love it as much as I do. And the interface! It's got this attitude, like the entire program is saying, "Yeah, I'm bad, and I know it." Whatever happens, keep the writing tone for the interface. It's outstanding: a description that matches Pandora perfectly. Keep up the great work!

Ok, Pandora is ace, but how come i've only heard of it now, its been around for ages already!! What have i been missing out on?!.....

No-one else i know has seen it before, so I'm sending emails to all the music appreciating clubs at my university so more people won't miss out anymore!

Keep up the good work.
Paul

ps - I've got some friends in the UK who'd love this too, when do you think your license issues will sort them out?

Hello! I wanted to make a suggestion about adding an artist. The artist is "Forget Cassettes" and the album I own is "Instruments of Action". This is an amazing band and very under-rated. Their website is http://www.forgetcassettes.com. I heard them on an underground music show and immediately called the station to find out who they were. I was directed to their website and ordered a copy of their CD. Just wanted to see if you could add them. I guess the genre would be in the same category as possibly Portishead with a bit more alt/rock or punk, you have to hear it for yourself to decide. Thanks a bunch, Amber

Lucia, how about a link to buy music from somewhere other than iTunes? I have an MP3 player that doesn't come from Apple and won't play iTunes-bought music. How fair is it that my 12 year old gets to buy music right away but I have to go somewhere else? What about those of us who aren't the cool kids with the coolest toys (although i love my Zen)?

The idea of Pandora seems profound. A couple of quirks make it a little harder to decide how well the idea has been developed.

Example: The first thing I decided to do was see what a Tom Waits station might look like. A good test case, because his music is so eclectic and has changed so much over the years. There were some wrong notes: "acoustic piano" and "major key" were deemed central to the Tom Waits genome. Missing were what I think the essentials are: eclecticism, humor, weird instrumentation, experiments with sonic texture, throwbacks to old Americana, and a kind of handmade quality. In fact, the most notable thing about the evolution of Tom Waits's music is that, since "swordfishtrombones," he's been more and more interested in a rough-around-the-edges, handmade kind of music, and less and less interested in the kind of studio production featured on, say, "Blue Valentine" and other recordings of the late '70s and early '80s. When the Billy Joel song "Always A Woman" came up in the queue, it seemed clear that Pandora's genomic criteria had failed to include something central about who Tom Waits is as a songwriter and performer.

Quirk #2: It would be nice to see an entire list of all the songs waiting in the queue and be able to comment on them, without having to listen to them all (I quickly hit my skip-limit and had to listen to each song in its entirety until I could skip again). I understand that a licensing agreement requires a limit on skipping, but does it preclude providing a simple list that you can help tweak? Maybe there is such a feature and I just missed it.

Hello and thanks!

I learned about pandora on PC magazine and loved it so much I immediately called my brother (international long distance!)and friends about it! You'll be happy to know I'm promoting it hard : ) I just think it's fabulous, a great idea and a fantastic way to get to know new music... awesome job!
I would love to hear more music in Spanish, since there's a whooooole lot more than reggeaton and "grupera" music (unfortunately, the most known in USA and the worst expressions of music in Spanish!). Let me know when (if) you will be adding music in spanish to Pandora!

Thanks again and congrats for such a wonderful project.

sincerely,

Gaby

iTunes integration, ala last.fm

hi i just thought that the choices are to spacific, i think that a choice of a list of genres that can be broad like; jazz, dance.... if you get what i mean.
i found my self entering an old song 'don't worry,be happy' and proceded to get realy odl songs following it instead of jazz or regge.

I've tried to create a station for just Rock instrumentals, like Tommy's Underture and Sparks by the Who. However, all of the songs have had lyrics. I've rejected them all, but only lyrics keep coming.
Otherwise, thanks for the music.

I discovered Pandora 3 weeks ago and I love it. I've turned a few of my co-workers on to it as well as my girlfriend. It's such a great way to listen to your favorite music AND discover new music.

One suggestion. You should allow users to assign favorite songs to different radio stations e.g. I'm listening to 'Bob Marley' radio and a east coast rap song by Talib Kweli comes on....I loved Talib in Blackstar with Mos Def (and have a few of their recent albums); however, I'd like to assign that to favorites list for my "Mostly East Coast" radio station.

Keep up the great work!

Peace,

Zak

Radio? That old thing?
I sometimes feel a bit guitly about my Pandora fixation. Over the past two years my fiancee has purchased a turn-table (yes I still own records!), receiver and speakers as gifts for Christmas/birthday.

Since I discovered Pandora, about $1000 in audio components have been gathering dust. I can't be bothered with radio in Washington, DC, and if DC does not have a diverse array of stations to reflect the diverse array of people, I can't imagine what things are like in Poughkeepsie, NY!

Not to sound completely mad but I NEED music. Without music I become a tad cranky (think heroin addict who has missed a fix). I was not getting that from programmed radio (think heroin addict trying to make do with Rolaids) and have not been since the late 90's. In addition, there are only so many times I can listen to my music collection before even THAT begins to pall. Pandora came along just in time. I was thinking of buying an XM or Sirius system but I also do not like the idea of stations that play only ONE type of music (yawn). There used to be a station in DC that would play ANYTHING if they had it in their collection (Punk, Rock, Metal, Jazz, a little classical thrown in here and there). It was sold and became a College Music format station in...the late 90's I think. I was in mourning (laugh if you must) UNTIL early February of '06 when someone told me about Pandora. I'm still working on it but I'm trying to recreate THAT station on-line. I've actually had to perform very little tweaking, which is why I continue to think the program peeks into my memory and pulls out things I'd forgotten I'd ever heard (joke).

Finally, it is funny you mention people giving up their iPods - I would never have considered purchasing an MP3 player of any sort (I still don't own a CD player) until I found out about Pandora. I'm pretty sure I will buy one in the near future and start requesting iTunes cards from everyone I know, because my Favorites list has over 300 songs in it. But for now I enjoy the feeling I used to get when I listened to radio a very long time ago: Waiting to see what Pandora will play next and wondering if it will play another song I had not heard in so long I had forgotten it existed.

I'm afraid an iPod will cut into my Pandora listening time!

p.s. Do you all have any need for L.A.s at large? I'm your girl if you need someone to cover the DC/Metro area.

People, you're the greatest!
We always read all of your comments and take all feedback into consideration.
And those love letters that you write to us? We cherish those, and we are eternally grateful. They keep up motivated! Thank you, truly.

If I could change one thing about Pandora...
It would be to add one more choice to the artist menu. I'd like a link to the artist's page on allmusic.com. I always end up going there for bio information, and a quick link would make it so much easier.
Please? and Thank you.

Hey Lucia,

Just got turned on to Pandora and I love it.

Also wanted to tell you I really like your name. In fact, my 7 month daughter is called Lucia. Though I will admit it was her mother's idea. ;)

Graig:

To get more artist information:

In the tuner, click on the song title, which brings you to a song profile page.

From there, you can click on the artist's name to go directly to their entry on the All Music Guide.

We definitely plan to add more artist information to the Pandora tuner in future versions.

cheers, Lucia

I love the service all around. My pick for change is having a vertical layout for the player instead of the horizontal design. I did a few mock-ups on my site.
http://3e-lab.com/blog/05/10/biz/pandora-mini-player-revised-layout-idea/
A vertical player would be a great match for folks using the new MacBook with the widescreen display.
http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html

Is there a way I can put several artists on a station and listen to music by them ONLY? Would be nice. Thanks.

What an amazing site and idea. I have turned on a lot of friends to this. Thank you so much for listening and supporting our stations and artists.

When will we be able to add you myspace as our player? Or promote you on myspace?

Hi Lucia,

a nice enhancement to your Pandora player would be to allow for opening the iTunes/Amazon link in another browser window or tab. I'd like to keep listening to a song while searching more information about the album, which I cannot presently do with your Flash player.

Thanks,

Lomig from France

I'm not a fan of advertisements but I'm a fan of Pandora, so I just thought I'd suggest that if you were able to customize ads based on users' musical interest, you'd have a much higher clickthrough rate. For example, with the iTunes ads you showed me, there wasn't a chance I was ever going to buy the advertised music, since it's nowhere close to my musical interest, thus the ad was mostly ineffective.

Lucia, thanks for giving the opportunity for us to speak up. I have two major requests...
First can we add a way to delete a single song from our playlists? There have been quite a few already where I like the artist, and it fits with what I like, but for one reason or another, I just don't like that one song. I don't want it to influence everything else though...

Also, can we get Nelly furtado's two new singles out? she has a new song called Promiscuous and another called no hay igual. Also, her new album will be released next month...

Hi Fellows, I love the concept,but i have just one problem, do you know what Classical music is? as in Opera, as in Ballet, as in Beethoven,Chopin Debussy or Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to name just a few,Now i do like the Blues, Acid country, Jazz etc but it seems that the relaxing music that i need every so often is not available. I hope to see it soon, and i write this some classical music comes on not sure what itis maybe you are listening to me!
Any way agreat station and concept. Bruce

Pandora is an awesome tool. At home and at work.
SUGGESTION to the Pandoras: How about adding "album" and "year" information to the song info?
STEP-ON from L.A.

Lucia,

Pandora is a great service and I have a couple of suggestions that could make it better:

1) I did a search on an artist named Craig Taubman who came up under Holiday. While I was glad to see that he is in your database the playlist that followed couldn't have been more wrong. Craig is a Jewish musician and his holiday song was for chanukkah but everything else that came up was for christmas. So, your service isn't taking lyric content into consideration. . .

2) Please have someone look into adding RebbeSoul (www.rebbesoul.com) Bruce is a musician's musician who is taking Jewish music into new realms. This is world music that incorporates collected ambient sound, traditional instruments and even rap and hip hop beats. While you are at it, check out his other band, Common Tongue.

Thanks!

I love very much Pandora music and the stations! it's very cool to hear quality music and music according to my taste or to the singers that I love. Congratulations Pandora Web Designers!!!

Hi, just wanted to say hi and congratulate you on this project, I've only just started using it yesterday and am already hooked. I am a ferocious music devourer and cant get enough new music. Living in mexico City makes it really hard to find good cd's and at a good price, so listening to your (mine?) radio stations is excellent for finding out about new stuff.

Keep up the good work, I'll keep listening!

So what happens when you don't give a song thumbs up or thumbs down? You just listen. How does it affect your station? Does it assume that you like the song or what does it do relative to that?

HI MY NAME IS LINDA AND I LISTEN TO YOUR MUISC AND I LOVE PLAY ME SOME NEW SONG THANK U GOOD NIGHT

Hi there. Pandora is one of the best thing i came across these years. i was so excited i talked about it to all my friends and they're now all fans! Thanks to you i discovered tons of new artists. glory to pandora.com!

Ok...and how do you subscribe?

Hi, I've been a Pandora fan for just under a year and enjoy listening whenever I can.
I have a 'problem' I'm wondering if you can help me. My 8 year old daughter was in a talent show at school. She played a song on the piano. Everything went great!! However, when her peers performed songs that are currently popular, she was unable to sing along with her friends because she had never heard them before.
I am totally clueless as to how to help her 'fit in' in regards to the music of her peers.
Do you know what 8 yr. old children are listening to? How can I program Pandora to play that kind of music?

Thanks,
Sara

I've only been a user for a day and I'm very impressed. I also subscribe to Rhapsody and while I've enjoyed that service Pandora is much better for discovering new music. Rhapsody lets you play stations of songs from similar artists, but I find that a lot of songs that I don't like find their way into those mixes.

I see that Pandora's supported on Squeezebox. Are there any plans to support the Roku Soundbridge? I use the Sounbridge to play Rhapsody in other rooms of my house and I'd love to do that with Pandora too.

Keep up the great service!

Can't tell you how much I like this!!! Found you via the PC Magazine article and hope that doesn't get you so many new listeners that it affects the site!

I agree with the suggestions that the ablilty to mis stations would be great and would allow for more lengthy listening sessions.

You guys are doing a great job. Thanks!!!

Dan

Sara:

I have two daughters very close to the age of your daughter (one of whom also plays the piano!).

Hands down, their favorite station on Pandora is "Hillary Duff Radio". I've never even had to give a thumbs up or down to anything--they have
just loved it from song one. My wife and I even enjoy the station for its upbeat fun and energy.

Please let us know how it works for your daughter.

Joe

I think that you should also sort the songs by what it is sung as. You know country, pop, rock, or any other style. I like some songs but I don't know who they're by or what the title is and that would help a lot.

I've been using the service for just a few days now, and I haven't touched WinAmp since. I do miss some of my more obscure tracks (a collection of all the various Doctor Who theme songs, for example), but I'm generally having a great time with Pandora.

A suggestion/complaint: why can't I STOP a song, as opposed to PAUSING it? If I'm headed out of the house and have left off on a good song, I don't want to miss it, and I can't manually play it, so being able to simply stop it and listen to it from the beginning when I get home ('cause the gods know I don't turn my computer off) would be a much more convenient option.

I haven't spelunked around the Pandora site too much, so this suggestion might be something you already have, but some explicit instructions on how to shape and mold our stations would be very helpful. I want to know exactly what a Thumbs Up means, and how it affects my mix.

Thanks again! It's a great service. I hope this becomes the new model for web-based music broadcasting. It's a great idea.

Lucia
How about publishing a whie paper on how the stuff actually works. What issues did you face, How did you tackle them? What architecture do you guys use? Ofcourse this might be against the company's policy but incase if it isn't then i would so much love to see such a thing.

Hate to bring this up but do you guys are planning to incorporate diff languages too? Lets say Hindi for Example.

P.S: i'm willing to help incase i can in any of the above mentioned endevours.

Hei Lucia

Thank you very much for this reeeaaaaly nice radio! I like it soooo much that I even forget to study for my big english exams because I just can't stop discovering the music universe. Here in Switzerland, we have lots of goa - partys. Usually they are outdoors, people look like late hippies and while dancing all night long till sunday or monday they are (unfortunately) taking lots of drugs. I don't know if you know this music, as it is more an india-europe thing. On Pandora, I miss my favourite goa-artist which is DJ Yahel (Israel). It would be nice to have him on the side of infected mushroom or astral projection... and of course there are many more goa-artists...

Thank you for reading... and greetings from Zurich.

Lizzy

or do I just send you the music? I could do that if you want to, you just have to explain me how... we have a 300 kbit/s upload

I think it's great that pandora offers the music uncensored, but I have one suggestion. Would there be a way for you guys to flag songs that have profanity in them and then allow users to decide if they want their station to be "profanity free" or not. If they do, songs that might be played that have profanity would simply not be played. This would be great for at home with the kids around, or at work, or other situations where you don't want the f-bomb being dropped over your radio. In other situations where it doesn't matter, you could unclick the "profanity free" button and enjoy all the f-bombs you want. I love pandora and this is just a suggestion that I thought would make it better! Thanks and keep it up.

I am sure you guys are already trying to integrate this service with iTunes or the Music Store!!

Fantastic service - discovering many new artists here!

Cheers,

Lucas

Integration with iTunes idea:

Scan iTunes library and make suggestions by Genre or by ALL songs in the iTunes library...

With Music Store - based on purchases make new suggestions...

Or simply crete your own stand alone player with the option to purchase the songs right there, with suggestions of course...

Cheers,

Lucas

I read on your site that you would like to add classical music, but don't yet know how to deal with it. You must have considered using the Library of Congress classification system? If not, you can download it at
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

I have the name of a former band (now broken up) that isn't on Pandora. It's a band named Angry Salad. They are one of my favorite bands, but they aren't on the site. Any way they could get onto the website would be greatly appreciated.

Hello!
i'm liv'in france.I'm so happppy to know pandora...don't u know that now i only listening it!!
Now i can ear my brazilian music and i feel like at home with all my family!
Thank u for this great idea..if only internet could serve only for clever things like this and not for sexual and commercial ones!
Encontre sua música favorita!

I would love to have some spanish music, like Gilberto Santa Rosa, Ednita Nazario, Lucecita Benitez and other great Latin@ singers. It will be a sense of being "home".

I dont'n ear the muusic it's stoping and beginiing. What can I do?

Hiya,

I'm another whose life you have saved... love Pandora now listen every day! *hugs*

Kallie

Hey I am getting far too obsessed with pandora than is healthy, great idea! How the hell does Pandora work??? Is the music categorised by each individual song? Im assuming it has to be done by people, as surely a computer cant recognise "strong male vocalist" etc... so how do the people in charge make the subjective decisions? For example, I would hold Morrissey as the ultimate front man, but this is never cited on my Smiths radio... also, do you know when/if Pandora is going to be licsensed in the UK? We in England are having to be resourceful to hear it(ie using the White House's zip code to register...)
keep up the good work!

Ever since my boyfriend came home and told me about pandora I couldn't be happier. I live where the music stations I like to hear won't come in on my house radio but sometimes while driving will come in and out. I don't even listen to my cd's really anymore let alone mess with antena wire to hear what I want any more. I have tried a few songs that pandora does not find but says they're look into it cause their always open to new music. Hopefully they will find and add them soon. Their is maybe one thing I've always wanted out of my radio station to hear the only reason why it makes me mad that I can't get it in my house, it is called the love show from 10pm till 2am playing old school music like computer love by zapp and roger, or all cried out but I don't know who sings it which is what I'm getting at. I love the music in that time slot and to not know the singers or song titles is hard when looking on pandora. Maybe someone could listen and so when I type in a song like computer love they'll add music more like that cause it adds music I think don't go with that. I do really love pandora and have been able to find music they just don't play anymore on the radio like, Don't fight the feeling by Too Short music they never played on the radio by the 2 Live Crew. I'm like in a music heaven where pretty much most rap music past and present comes into my home without having to try and find some of the cd's I like cause where I live you can't buy any good rap music pretty much and if you do it's all censored which I can't stand cause some of the best parts of the song are either beeped out or changed to something else. I understanding wanting to censore young kids but as a parent of a 9 year old girl who I've never not played something just because she was in the room. She knows as long as I better not hear some of the musics words come out of her mouth. She like Eminem and one of her favorite songs since she was about 3 and a half has been by Master P the rapper. Parents who tell their kids you can't listen to music like that just makes them want to more and just cause you don't let them does not mean they won't hear it some where else like a friends.
I am a pandora lover forever and thing its the greatest thing to come around. Finally someone to have the same kind of conversation I am.

Thanks Pandora

Check out the band "Five Times August" based out of Texas. They are pretty great, and would be an awesome addition :)

The Frank Sinatra station is great! I def. agree with the idea of rotating and/or merging stations. I tend to listen to pretty much everything on the reg. radio while driving (the equivalent of channel-surfing on cable, if you will), as I like variety and hate commercials. Would be nice to have that kind of shuffling option here.

Pandora is also great for parties. you just put it on, and you can frget about changing the music or even perparing a playlist. it�s really like having a deejay. My party favourite is the Maceo Parker station.
I miss some salsa music though - especially for parties...
thanks a lot
david

I love this station. You are doing a great job! There has been a great selections of artists that I need on a daily basis. I require great music every day to keep me happy!

I am not sure how you manage all of this, but again, I love this station, and I tell everyone about it! I teach online college, and I even mentioned it to one of my students, who said - Aren't they great? I listen all of the time.

I love Pandora!!!! As you said, it allowed me to discover songs and singers I've never heard before.
For about five years I only listened to one band (maybe the most famous trio in pop music history), one of the members was my best friend. Since he passed away on Jan. 2003, I can't listen to them anymore, so I started to look for new (and old) stuff. Meeting Pandora was fantastic. My Josh Groban radio (believe it or not "You raise me up" is playing right now there) is exactly what I was looking for.
And the way you keep in touch with us, your listeners, is wonderful.
Thanks a lot!!!!
Pandora and me: a match made in heaven...
Ana

I love. Love. LOVE. this service!

I have found a small branch around an obscure group. Because it doesn't have a great deal of influences, the station defaults to the band I created the station with every 4-5 songs.

THIS IS NOT A FLAW! I love it! I have another station built that will give me a great deal of newer music, but I love having access to a small self-contained subset of the genome.

Thank you! I have evangelized you to anyone who will listen, and recently had a few people take a look at the service after I put it up at a party.

Thank you thank you thank you!

thank you thank you thank you!!!

one question:
i have a lisa ekhdal station, and i would like to hear more of her songs which she sings in swedish. is that possible?

again, many thanks to you at pandora! it is a lifesaver and so nice to hear music from artists you have never heard before, and didn't know existed.

best wishes,
vikingur,
iceland.

One feature I really like about shared stations is being able to see the definition e.g. the songs and artists that were used to determine and influence the playlist. However this info has not been available for days now. I'm sure this is a minor techno-glitch, but I hope it gets fixed soon!

Pandora what can I say? You have served as the healthiest of distractions from work, and brought the girls in our house (with somewhat wide-ranging musical tastes) together under the excitement of lying around listening to all things ***NEW*** and lovely. Particularly impressed with Jazzanova radio adn Ben Watt radio. Much love!

hello there lucia!

thanks for all your great posts and insights into what it is like working at pandora. It's really cool that pandora and its listeners are so close and really pay attention to one another.

Just dropped by to say that the "Pixies" radio is awesome!

I have tryed to make an Ole Staveteig channel, but he is not in your padora box. I highly recomend this Norwegian tap guitarist. He is an fantastic guitar instrumentalist.

You can check out his music on his homepage at www.olestaveteig.com or at www.myspace.com/olestaveteig

And of cours I have to say that i LOVE pandora. I have lots of different channels to every one of my moods! :)

Hi, I love Pandora as well. As in one of the earlier comments, please let me know if there is a way to have the content stream to my Treo

Ok ... I have a little report to make ...

"Posted by: Darkquette at May 26, 2006 08:53 AM

Hi, I've been a Pandora fan for just under a year and enjoy listening whenever I can.
I have a 'problem' I'm wondering if you can help me. My 8 year old daughter was in a talent show at school. She played a song on the piano. Everything went great!! However, when her peers performed songs that are currently popular, she was unable to sing along with her friends because she had never heard them before.
I am totally clueless as to how to help her 'fit in' in regards to the music of her peers.
Do you know what 8 yr. old children are listening to? How can I program Pandora to play that kind of music?

Thanks,
Sara"

First of all I didn't write that since I'm freaking 18 and I can't have a daughter that is 8 and second of all I didn't write that message ... *confused*...
And the person who wrote it used my VampireFreaks.com url ... so ... I don't know what to say ... I guess it's identity theft ... but I'd surely appreciate it if that message was no more ...

How do I find the Pandora Tuner? I don't see anything like it on the (only) page that normally appears when I listen to "my station" (Mel Torme and Much More).

How do I find the station list? I'd like to sample a few of the stations that others have set up but I have no clue about how to do so.

Please get back to me. Thanks.

I do not know why but I cannot figure out how to change my e-mail address on my account to the correct one. I did some research and found that there should be an account button that would allow me to do so but I was unable to find it. Maybe I am simply overlooking it but if you could please help me on this issue I would greatly appreciate it. It's for sharing station's purposes with friends. ;)

Thanks,

Hi Brandon -

Thanks for your interest in Pandora!

You can update your email address from the Pandora home page.

You do this by clicking "account" at the top right of the page, and then "edit" under Account Info.
You will enter an area where you can modify all your data-- including email, password, and other information.
Please note that changing your email address here also changes your Pandora login.

cheers, Lucia from Pandora

Is there a way to merge two stations