Hello,
This is obviously a huge project.... I'm wondering if you will include cultural music from around the world.
Thanks

What a great job those folks have, and what a great job they do.

Nice to see some faces behind the project that makes me dance in my chair at work. (At home I can boogie any old time I want.)

Thank you all!

I love Pandora. All of you people need to know the hours you spend creates something completely unique. Thank you

Oh, sweet lord. I have no inhibitions in accepting that i envy your work a lot. And i have huge respect for that force - which hath turned this pleasurable activity of playing songs to people's liking, understanding their musical needs with the slightest of cues - into what it is currently - The Music Genome project.

Mark my name, for i'd be the one taking this idea ahead in many other dimensions.

Until then thanks a bunch for the awesome times.

Hi! Just wanted to say how overwhelmed I am at the wonderful job being done by you and your team. I've got to confess Pandora is easily the best personalized music streaming service I've ever come across. I've heavily into classical, jazz & country...& your streams, put simply, keep me a happy man!

Thanks once again for the wonderful job!

Pandora Is Amazing, Im a DJ and this is THE BEST AND EASIEST way for me to expand my knowledge of music and see which song s are good for each other.. THANK YOU ..

Oh my God oh my God! Heaven! I feel like i'm in music heaven! I'm at work listening to all the music i wanna listen to! Thank you thank you THANK YOU! And keep up the AMAZING work! It is greatly appreciated!

I want your job! :P

Hmm...i'm just wondering if you guys are planning to extend this awesome Pandora by releasing plugins or api/web services that allows ppl to add pandora functionality (albeit limited to a few tracks unless they register and login also) into websites?

I wish to let my friends and asscociates to know how cool this thing is and attract them to use it too. :)

Apologies, after reading the FAQ, i found that my query has been answered.

http://blog.pandora.com/faq/index.html#84

Pandora is definitely the coolest option I can see to get musical recommendations. The excellent work(?) being put into defining the traits of a song is also remarkable. Can I work for you ?

I like Pandora, but it seems to break down when it comes to genre of music, let's say I put in a Dark Wave or Goth band with Industrial overtones--the next song that comes up shouldn't be Ted Nugent--in fact Ted Nugent should never come up, but that's just a personal note! Anyway, keep up the good work and give me a job!

Gremlin--

It used to be rare that a CD would be released that I could simply push play and walk away. Pandora has created the endless CD.

Thank you so much! Problem is now I'm adding speakers to every room of my house, getting Squeezebox and generally ticking off the wife and kids with my vigorous enthusiasm for what they call "the radio".

Thank you to the hard workers who make it possible.

Hi
First: Pandora is fantastic! Best thing since Gin & Tonic. Cant beleave its free. Accutaly makes you want to buy more music (guess that is the point).
A wish: posibility to search on music type or genre.

Best regards
Sten

I've been listening for a couple of weeks now and am loving it. I've found a number of new artists that I didn't even know existed, as well as purchased a few CDs. Good stuff, and this is what it is all about.

One of the things that I would love to see is an expanded "Why did you play this?" entry... Something that gives a better explanation in more technical terms than the current one or two lines.

Additionally, I think it would be kind of interesting to have a moderated "Wikipedia" approach. I'm not saying that your reviewers are wrong, but there may be others out there that have a great ability to assist in helping out the definition of a particular tune. Your team would be the moderators, and could incorporate data submitted to them in their definition if they felt it was analytically correct. I guess this would make it somewhat similar to the MusicBrainz project, but I think that you folks have certainly taken this more than step further. Closer to a quantum leap.

In this same vein, it would be pretty cool if there was an ability to upload an album of tunes to your system (at a specified bit-rate, along with all the requisite data, of course, such as the UPC code, etc), and do an initial basic review that your team would review and expand upon... making it not completely open-source, but something close.

Also, I'm wondering why some of the tunes that I listen to (I listen a lot to trance, house, drum and bass) just end. It's almost like there is a five or six minute time limit on the tunes, and it leaves me wondering if that is how the track actually ends on the cd (as it may be part of a mix album and the next track takes over at that point) or if there is an actual limit to track length that you folks adhere to.

Finally, I just want to reiterate that Pandora and the MGP is great, and if you didn't change a damn thing, it would still be great.

Kudos for adding the by: and on: fields.

Suggestion:

Add "don't play this for a month" on the popup menu for a song as well as on the Guide Us menu. Sometimes I want to hear a song one more time, then put it away for a while after it has scrolled to the left.

The scolling artist name and album is a nice touch. Thank you. I noticed that songs names do not scroll. Is this due to the fact it is a link to the song info page? Are there any plans to fix this?

What an ingenious idea! I love your site.

hi,guys,just wanted to let you know that Iloveyou ~~~and ,well,a little bit curious ,listening to the musics all day long ,ain't this make your head in buzz when you put off the headphones?

Hi, I am a lover of hearing quality muzic therefore I like to hear it on my hi-fi. I recently was turned on to pandora in which I went out and bought three cd's from simular artist's I like. However, one of the cd's is plane okay, the other sucks. My music is also listened to through a netgear mp101. I use netgears MP101 and the TwonkyVision UPnP AV Media Server are there any plugins or is there any way to listen to pandora through my hi-fi. before I spend money on more muzak? My if anyone knows how to run pandora through twonkyvision and winamp? Twonkyvision or rather TwonkyMedia (server) is a standard UPnP-enabled client that allows you to run your music through your home stereo system. Can this be done w/pandora?

More on twonky here:
http://www.twonkyvision.de/

I think Andy has a great idea about allowing listeners to weigh in on what they think about a tune. I know that a lot of times I click the "why did you play this song?" tab and think, those are not at all the things that I think of as the essence of this song, nor are they the aspects of the seed song that pandora is trying to match that I like. Music is subjective, and therefore, no expert will ever be able to tell me what I like about a song better than me and allowing that kind of input is a neat idea.

Re. "the Music Genome never generalizes about artists' repertoires; each song is considered individually", I feel as though users should be able to provide some input regarding which artists they'd like to hear or not hear.

In particular, I would like the ability to ban certain artists from my playlists. Perhaps this is contrary to the philosophy behind the Music Genome, which is clearly to consider music purely on its merits, but there are certain artists that irritate the crap out of me, even if the music they play is similar to what I enjoy.

For example, I have no desire to listen to anyone that has ever been a contestant on American Idol, and when Bo Bice appears in my "Hard as Nails Bitch" station along with Sepultura and System of a Down, it bothers me.

Similarly, if I find a particular artist loathsome because of their tendency to, say, take advantage of under-age girls or beat their wives, I would like to be able to banish them from my playlists.

Pandora rocks though!

Ade:

I had a similar problem with Cher, Janet Jackson and a few other artists that give me cramps on my main station. The good thing is two thumbs down for any artist will banish them forever (mwahahaha) and I actually like laying in wait for an artist I dislike to make their second appearance. Right now I'm waiting for David Hasselhof (gaaah) to rear his ugly head again.

I enjoyed the Inside The Net podcast. After several months of avid listening, I'm finally beginning to understand and articulate my slight frustration with the thumbs feedback. As discussed in the podcast, it's relatively easy to expand the range of music that plays on a given station via a "thumbs up"; however, it's much more difficult to narrow the focus of station. "Thumbs up" help in a distributional sense, particularly in shaping an artist-based station, in that it increases the frequency of the kind of songs that you like. "Thumbs down" is much less effective since, used once for an artist, it only removes a single song from a playlist of at least a hundred, but, pressed twice for an artist, it's too blunt removing that artist's entire ouevre (assuming the artist has no songs in the set of seeds or earlier thumbs up).

Let's say I like odd time signatures, and so I put in "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo A La Turk" as seeds. What comes out is a lot of small combo jazz in 4/4. Even if Pandora could be programed to have the kind of intellegence to take that input and note, "Oh yes, 5/4 is relatively unusual and shared by the seeds and that's what this listener is seeking", it is not clear that that's what Pandora *should* do. Nevertheless, if would be nice if there were some way to provide some feedback about which genes are particularly important for a given station.

Perhaps, "Thumbs up" should remove a few of the songs which do not share consonant genes with the set of seeds and prior "thumbs up". And, conversely, "thumbs down" should add a few songs that are neighbors to the seeds but are far from the set of "thumbs down".

Or, perhaps, the interface should have a way to provide deeper feedback beyond the thumbs for those who'd like to do so.

ok, I also think you should have more cultural music, here are some of my suggestions for chinese, japanese, and korean:

Japanese:
Gazette, Kana, Miyavi, Kagrra, lolita23q, lucifer, schwarz stein, 12012, mask, psycho le cemu, malice mizer, antique cafe, 176BIZ, The pillows, plastic tree, pierrot, hide, Hyde, Glay, SID, Alice 9, Panic Channel, Do As Infinity (DAI), Morning musume, ai otsuka, utada, Two~Mix, Mixa Nakashima, road of major, kamika aya, orange range, kirito, Monkey Majik, L'arc en ciel, Round Table, and so on... You should also have more soundtracks and be able to look up music by the genre

Korean: 1TYM, BoA, Hyolee, DBSK/Dong Bang Shin Ki, Rain, Se7en...

Chinese: FIR, Jolin(Tsai), 89757, Kissy, Twins, Cyndi, Landy, Kone, Yida, Fish Leong, Will...

Thankyuuuu

I agree with Mertseger about the difficulty of narrowing a station's sound. It seems that cross referencing the seed songs against each other as well as against thumbs-uped songs looking for shared elements would really help listeners tell pandora what exactly they're looking for.

I will, again, make a plea for a feedback control that allows listeners to build stations directly from the musical elements of the music genome sited by the "why did you play this song?" tab. If its just not possible, let me know, so I can stop laying awake at night thinking about how awsome it would be.

The point is that the ability to narrow a station's sound needs improvement.

Boy, I don't know how one would go about doing this, but I agree with those people who feel that descriptive style should be included in the paramaters of a "station". For example, to type in "The Beatles" could bring you everything from "Please Mr. Postman" to "I Am The Walrus", about as wide a range as one could ask for when what I'm looking for is up tempo oldies. Jefferson Airplane, Kinks, the Stones and other long life groups with changing styles would fall into this catigory. Granted, the stations can be fine tuned, but......

Having said that, this is a wonderful site. You folks have obviously put a lot of work into it. Thank you for doing so.

I just stumbled across Pandora from stubleupon.com. I really like your idea behind this and being able to find more music that I like. I wanted to registed, but unfortunetly you have to be in The States, and i'm in Canada. Hopefully you will have this available soon for Canadians.

Keep up the good work!

Chan

I was looking for a regional rythm from costa Rica and I found Pandora. it is great, these guys even categorize music from Latin America (do they speak Spanish too?). How great musicians are behind Pandora.
Let us support this Genome Project!

Bravisima!!!
I learned of your site last week and haven't stopped listening.

I actually thought that the analysis was done solely by computer.

I love it. Thank you for the hours of listening pleasure.

Have you ever considered audio books and spoken word???

Thanks,
Julia Poulos

Odd time signagures... I remember six or eight months ago trying to listen to songs with odd time signatures. At the time, "Hum" was my favorite artist, and they use odd time signatures a lot, excessively in "Boy with Stick." However, at the time, Pandora didn't even know who "Hum" was.

After some time, however, Pandora played a song with an odd time signature all on it's own. So I took that song that played and created a station from it and began giving feedback based solely on wether or not each song had an odd time signature. After many attempts at making it work, I found I had only two choices: Listen to a station that played one song out of twenty with an odd time signature, or listen to a station that played non-stop death metal with odd time signatures in every song.

It seems odd time signatures are popular with death metal, and it is (or at least was, I haven't tried since six or eight months ago) difficult to hear a particular quality without hearing the style of music that particular quality is most popular with.

I'm disappointed with what I read when I click "why did you play this song?" I've noticed lately that Pandora seems to be overfocused on instrumentation. I played Pandora for my mother a few weeks ago... She only likes country music whereas country is the only genre which guarantees that I won't like a song, but I noticed that what I read after clicking "why did you play this song" on her stations was identical to what I read many times on my own stations.

I'm disappointed to see things like "electric rock instrumentation" when I know that electric rock instrumentation has nothing at all to do with wether or not I like a song. Pop, rock, country, rap, punk, death metal... All use electric rock instrumentation, but that doesn't mean that I like everything, it doesn't mean anything. It is one of the most useless metrics Pandora could apply, perhaps second only to "major key tonality."

Pandora needs to look at the attributes that define wether or not a person will love a song, and instrumentation simply isn't likely to be the determining factor in my opinion. Things like instrumentation, presense vs. absense of vocal harmonies as opposed to good vs. poor vocal harmonies, and especially major vs. minor key tonality simply aren't the attributes that really make a person like a song. For me it seems to be mostly rhythm (syncopation of vocals in particular), vocal qualities and lyrics. It's very helpful if there is some instrumentation in there as well, but exactly what instrumentation it is doesn't seem to matter at all. All that matters is that it is played to a good rhythm. Within the limits imposed by the type of rhythm I like, I really couldn't care less about genre either.

Sometimes Pandora says "...because it features major key tonality, mixed electric and acoustic instrumentation and many other similarities..." The songs Pandora plays for that reason are the songs that I dislike the most. It's as if Pandora really has simply chosen any random song with major key tonality and mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation. Sometimes it doesn't even say "many other similarities."

I want to hear music that I will like, not music that sounds like music that I like.

I've tried adding a wide variety of music to a station to make Pandora realize that I don't care so much about genre, and it does work better that way, but I simply don't know of much music that doesn't feature either "electric rock instrumentation," "acousitic rhythm guitars" or "mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation." I try adding in a piano song such as "What I've Been Looking For" but then Pandora simply occasionally throws in a slow and depressing piano song, seemingly paying no attention to the swing beat, tempo and upbeat lyrics of "What I've Been Looking For."

Whereas before I wanted an "I really care about lyrics" checkbox, now I really want an "I don't care about instrumentation and genre" checkbox. In my corner of the music universe, "Domino Effect" by Ozma is closer to "What I've Been Looking For" than is any song that plays on that station. It has a swing beat, it's exceptionally melodic, and the lyrics aren't nearly as depressing as the lyrics of some of the songs that play on "What I've Been Looking For" which Pandora says it chose to play because of upbeat lyrics. "The Horror Has Gone" is not an upbeat song! I have no idea what the lyrics are supposed to be about, but the rest of the song is so obviously downbeat that it makes me want to beat my head into a wall every time I hear it.

A week ago I created yet another "What I've Been Looking For" station, and in frustration over the new six song skip limit (which wouldn't be so bad if only I liked more than an average of zero out of every six songs that play on that station), for every six songs, I simply chose the one I disliked the least and created a new station from it and deleted the old station. After half a dozen generations, on a station that otherwise wasn't really playing anything that I like, I heard "Coming Home" by Clumsy Lovers which is just another one of those "this is awesome, why hasn't Pandora ever played this on any of my stations" kind of songs. Songs that I like are in Pandora, they just aren't the songs that Pandora plays.

In the end, like ObiWanKeenobi, I wish I could just tell Pandora what attributes I'm interested in listening to. I think it would be a lot more fun, much more of a learning experience and a lot more "exploring music" to simply hear any song that happens to have danceable grooves and upbeat lyrics. It would definately be more fun than hearing any song that happens fall in the same genre and have the same instrumentation as my favorite songs with danceable grooves and upbeat lyrics.

BTW, I don't envy the analysts' jobs at all. Sure, listening to music all day sounds like fun at first, but I would surely be taking a Q-tip to my eardrums after a month of listening to songs like "The Horror Has Gone" all day every day. I don't know how they do it and keep their sanity at the same time. At least I can skip the songs that I don't like, or at least change stations. Those poor song analysts have to listen to the song again and again and again to document everything about it. Music you like is wonderful to listen to all day. Listening to whatever random music needs to be analysed next, that's an entirely different matter. No envy here at all.

hey--
this is the coolest internet music ever. so many times, i put music that i like and get something entirely opposite. this is aweosme. i completely envy you all... listening to music all day?! where do i sign up?

The staff is great I want to thankyou for the great music I have listened to,I have told alot of my friends about this sight,they will be checking you out. Mary

Entirely the best thing I have found on the Internet- You people rock can't come close to this. I have turned Pandora on to those I know feel the same, and their sentiments are the same. What took so long. By the way--found out about you from an article by Bill Machrone in PC magazine.

Keep up the good work!.. Let the music flow through our ears and souls like the waters of the great rivers!

Kudos to you guys.. excellent work!

A many many thanks to you from my fellow friends and I here in Port Washington, WI. If you'd like any information on local milwaukee musicians, i'd be happy to submit. I'm sure the artists would be more than happy to include thier music in the project as well.

you guys are awesome. this is like a dream come true! i am always looking for artists i've never heard of that dont suck like all the new crap out there. the chance to have feed back from you listeners is like the perfect chocolate ganache on the cake.......THANK YOU!!!!

Can't say enough! Love it. This may seem corny, but I actually look forward to coming to the office to hear both music I love, and music I've never heard of!

Should be required listening for all office zombies!

Great stuff..GO Pandora Go...!!I am a crazy fan of your station!

After spending a long time Friday, weather was hot and my business was sloooow, I tried to find a song that I have heard a few times and love.

It's a piano blues jazz song, I believe from the early 70's by an artist Dr. ? all about a bee. Many years ago I tried to buy the
album but it was out of print. Very English voice. You are doing a very fine thing. Good enough for me to consider selling my OLD vynals. Can you help?

Maravilhoso!!!
pandora.com é absoluto.. parabéns pelo projeto. Conheci o site por indicação e não consigo parar de descobrir músicas que gosto que eu não sabia..

abraços

Thank you so much for your hard work. I us internet for hours every day, have been using for 10 year. After communication and news, Pandora is the best thing internet has to offer, even before online shopping :)

I hope that you will be a success financially as well as culturally and you will be with us for a long long time. Maybe someday you will set up an office in Europe as well, so that we can enjoy more of the excellent european music as well, since the current database is very North American, for understandable reasons.

You're Great People!! Thanks so much for this Project. Music is a part of my life ...

Hi Lucia,

All the new changes in the Pandora player are really helpful. I really love that you have a great amount more Latin music up! I am exploring a part of our American culture now, that I didn't have good access to before, and it is really wonderful musically.

Might you get some music by "Gran Combo" up, and some more Latin pieces with a salsa beat? You do have some salsa music on-line--Miami Sound machine, LA Carpool, and stuff along those lines, but it would be fun to here the completely Latin Salsa music too. I hear Gran Combo is a pretty popular band.

Thanks so much, and I really appreciate Pandora.
Edith

AMAZING job you are doing with "muscia en Español"!!!!!!!!!!! It's incredible how much more there is now and you guys are obviously dedicating time to it, since I've heard some good stuff!!!

Congrats & thanks a million.

Gaby

Thank you so much. I love it.

you guys are doing an awsome job...i love it, though i haven;t been able to find any israeli music, are you planning on including music from all over the world or just american and britsh bands?

heeey dudes!!!

u should work on ur classic section... no beethoven... no mozart... no classics.... and yea.... the punkrock, hardcore, metalcore, ska, PUNKROCK,,, rock on dudes... brilliant... (wtf i said punkrock twice... woops)

laterzzzz!

You guys make my math class so much easier to study. I enjoy your music YOU ARE FANTASTIC

hey why dont you have gorilla biscuits on here, there tight as hell

Hey1 Everythings great on my stations.But a huge tip for you would be that I love rap,hip-hop,rn'b,an d some pop.

I have been searching for my dream radio station for my entire life and I have finally found it. You not only give me my favorites but you also have turned me on SO MUCH great music that I would have never found otherwise. THANK YOU. The one thing that amazes me is how over time the music flows smoothly from one genre to another. I just heard 60's Garage, Punk, Reggae, Funk, Trip Hop and Frank Zappa with no sudden jarring changes in mood. I have been a professional DJ for 21 years and I know how difficult it is nailing anyones taste but you have pulled it off. Another great aspect to Pandora is that I tell everyone about it, no matter what their taste in music, it will be their favorite station. I just checked out Stolen Bibles..... great stuff Danny!

Thanks again,

Gary "Jr" Ingalls

Hello. I have a degree in Music Therapy and would like to know how I could possibly become a Pandora music analyst. I currrently live in San Diego and not really sure where Pandora is based. Any help/info. would be appreciated.
SHINE ON!
Kyle

Simply thank you...

Thanks for helping to expand my musical horizons. I LOVE Pandora, and I'm doing my best to spread the word!

Julie

It's been a while since I'm able to listen to the music I like, all in one single station. You guys are really doing a great job!!

Thank you for creating PANDORA....

Greetings from Costa Rica......

Hey why dont you guys have Gone by Frankie J?????Other than that you have done a very good job.Showed me some fantastic songs I would probaly never heard without Pandora.THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!P.S keep up the good work!!!!!!!

Hi!
I've said I love Pandora enough! :) I do, of course, but I wanted to suggest... would it be possible to have an option for "I don't like it" but only for "I don't like THIS song"? I only say this because I sometimes the song played by the artist is not one i like or that really reflects the style I'm looking for and I don;t want to click on "I don't like it" because I know that if you do that twice on the same station, the artist won't be played again (correct?)... Just wondering...
Thanks a again and again and again....

Gaby

Pandora has been a long time coming. Finally a true internet music listening / enjoyment web site. Better then any other web site for finding, listening and discovering many different talented groups and individuals, as well as bringing back those years of memories with music that everyone has grown up listening to. *** Superb #1 *** I will telling everyone I know about your site. Thanks for the excellent work everybody at PANDORA.
By the way, How does one become an analyst for your group? I would leave my job just to be an analyst for the Pandora team. Are you listening?

i just found out about pandoro on july 6 2006 ilove it keep up the good work and may god bless you. mary ishmael nc

I'm sooo glad, that you're more than "Ears",
maybe Hearts?1
Sometimes when I'm listening Pandora,
my flesh is creeping,
when you show me places,where I'm coming from...
or you lead me to places, I'm never been before...
Hope that my dearest smile will find the way across the ocean to you!!

:)*

ayayayayay!!! thnks guys!!! amazing job, are you hiring :p ??? AMAZING AYAYAYAYYYY!!! iaiaiaia!!!! wow!

Hi!! Pandora is an increbile invention my fellows!! But I would like to point a few things
1) Joaquin Sabina is not related to David Bisbal, except they are both from Spain. Sabina also would kill Bisbal if he could.
2) Argentinian rock is f**** great!! I was surprised when i saw André³ Calamaro here (remember this band: "Los Rodriguez" where André³ played, this was his best band). Please include here artists like Pappo, La Renga, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota and Ratones Paranoicos. We have very good rock people!!

Greetings from this southern country known as Argentina.

you people R.O.C.K.!

"We're not worthy,
we're not worthy,
we're not worthy,
we're not worthy..."

I read about Pandora and Westergren on an airplane, I failed to remember to bring some reading material so I was stuck with reading the magazines provided, you know the ones they stick in the pocket in front of you under your tray. As I was skimming through the pages I caught myself continuing to read this particular article that described Pandora and the people behind it. I was hooked. So I asked for a pen and wrote down the web site and here I am.
I have a GREAT passion for music, from The Dandy Warhols to Enya, and John Fogerty to Frank Sinatra. I have a GREAT passion for music, and I admire completely what everyone at Pandora is working towards.

Keep the music alive,
Cassie P

Recently, my wife and I were turned on to Pandora by our nephew, a musician/composer who lives in Chicago. He loves your site, and it provides him with more-than-occasional inspiration. In a single week, we have heard more good recorded music and been offered better fresh recommendations than from all other sources combined in the last 12 months. Thank you, thank you!

Two characteristics about the segues from recommendation to recommendation puzzle us. I believe Lucia when she says that each tune is analyzed for many characteristics; however, people, although each of us is blessedly unique, tend to have more in common in very basic tastes than more that separates us. Both my wife and I are experiencing a similar pattern as Pandora builds our stations: if we leave them to grow, without our expressing opinions, there is seemingly a distinct progression towards songs that are more upbeat and more heavily-produced than your initial offering. Is this our imagination or is this tendency, perhaps, hardwired into the tastes of true music enthusiasts? Increasing production and
complexity almost always trump tone--and tone is closer to the core of the threads we want to hear expanded. Maybe, after we have listened for a few more dozens of hours, we will discover that this pattern we have both perceived is anomalous--or does not exist!

In the meantime, I thank you again. You are providing us LOTS of deep enjoyment!

A BIG BRAVO FOR YOU GUYS !!! YOU'VE MADE AN INCREDIBLE JOB !!! KEEP IT OUT, I LOVE YOU !!!

I just love your project Im so glad that people still have awesome ideas that can made come true and also make a living from it. I envy your job but you also make my job less boring since I'm a graphic designer and I'm the whole day sitting in front of my Mac listening and finding new music.
Thanks for keeping us alive!!!!!

Someone told me about Pandora forever ago and I just got onto it and I think it's great. I love the variety! My only criticism is that there isn't a lot of Euro hip-hop/R&B (I'm not even going to touch the idea of Japanese/Chinese rap). Artists like Xavier Naidoo (Germany), Outlandish (wrote "Walou") or Jay Chou (Taiwan) aren't on here despite being pretty huge in the rest of the world; the same goes for UK garage groups. I dunno if Pandora can accomodate this type of music, but it is definitely cool. All in all, though, Pandora is pretty rock.

Hi you guys, This Pandora Projecto Rocks... really.. I´ve been telling everybody here about you people.
I have a question: Being myself a very fan of pop-rock semivintage music, the decade when every song has being released is important, ass well as the language. But those two items seems not to be part of the characteristics taken into account at the moment you create a station. Just a commentary... for the rest.. you rule guys!!!!!!

It's a great station for me and our friends in my office listening PANDORA program.and I tell everyone for this web a good station
Thanks.
Adisak@chevron.com

Great idea, great execution. Keep up the good work!

Well, This is quite the project. Hope you get done on time :) I was never good with due dates and term papers either!

Thanks for the freshness of music. It's made life musically surprising again.

First of all, kudos!

Pandora does a good job of matching music within a genre. Since one of the styles I like is bebop, Pandora reliably feeds me more bebop. However, Pandora is less successful in discerning talent and taste, which is probably impossible to do without turning your musicologists into critics. Nonetheless, you have to admit that not all tenor saxophone solos over latin percussion, for example, are created equal.

Giving the user the right to ban particular artists (a remedy suggested above) may not be THE answer, but it would help to improve the listening experience until a better means in found.

Hello, I love this site! Its so innovative and unique. Im on this site whenever Im on the computer :) But I was wondering why we can't replay songs. For example if I find a song I like and want to hear it again, why can't I just click on it? Or why can't I go backwards? Im also wondering if I can get artists from different countries. I could go on forever about varouis questions lol. But overall I think this site it awesome. Keep up the good work! :)

Awesome dudes.When I am surfing the net your musical selection keeps me cruising.The way you can alter your own music channel is fantastic .How do you do this business when it's free to air?Good shit men!

This service is possibly the best and most useful site I have seen in years. You rock!

You should integrate with Xbox 360-type devices if poss...then the MS Media Centre would actually be worth bothering with! OK, Xbox needs a browser first but you know what I mean...

Imagine listening to something on Pandora through your media centre/stereo, liking it and buying it through your Pandora account with Amazon. Seamless...

i would like to give a thumbs up to you all!
genius work u guyz have done for us picky listeners.
i wanted to know whether you know yet the recipe for a hit song- i am sure there is a brainy answer to that and am trying to decipher that on my own...
any way - i would like to reenforce the comment of the narrowing down of a certain station, if you could add the option of of eliminating the songs of a certain band that comes up on my station Would LOOOOOOVE that to happen
Sincerely,
noa

I've created almost a hundred stations thus far with Pandora. Some I like better than others. All and all, though, this is a great concept. I cannot stand prattle that I hear on FM stations. Does anyone remember when such stations were creative with DJs that weren't in love with the sound of their own voices.

In any event, thanks for giving me the ability to listen to artists and songs that I haven't heard for decades as well as introducing me to songs and artists that I've never heard before me.

Keep up the good work.

I have bought so much music that I have discovered thru Pandora. What a great boon to Amazon and the music industry!

Love Pandora!! Great concept. One comment if I may......My station "British Invasion Radio" continues to play lots of selections from bands and artists "not British". While I enjoy those tracks, is there any way to definitively sort them out?

Keep up the great work and thank you for all your efforts.

dear Pandora,

you guys are doing an amazing job here, i love the radio stations and the mixes of music that you compile. i just have one suggestion, and one question. The suggestion is to find some sort of simple way to advertise the website, because this site seems to be one of the best keep secrets of the net. Perhaps you can raise awareness through an html banner that can be reposted on sites such as myspace and such. my question is for the guys and gals that have compiled the coheed and cambria radio station. what are the qualities that the other bands share with coheed? because it seems to me that each song that plays on that radio station is somewhat similar, but not really in the same ballpark. i was just wondering if someone could take the time to explain it to me.

thanks alot guys! youre doing a great job and keep up the good work!

i remain,
bill

I listen mostly at work. It really bothers me that some songs are so quiet and others blare out.
I would have thought that the first thing you guys would have installed would have been sound leveling.

Also, instead of picking a group or song, I would rather pick a catagory, such as "Prog rock" or Hard rock". Whenever I add a new artist to a playlist, it seems to focus only on that newly added artist, or go completely in a different direction if I add more than one artist.

Just a few glitches. For the most part I like it.

WHEN I COME HOME FROM MY WORK YOU ARE MY COMPANY BECAUSE I LIVE ALONE, BUT BECAUSE I LOVE MUSIC SO MUCH I AM NOT ALONE ANY MORE BECAUSE I HAVE THE BEST COMPANY. THE GREAT MUSICS YOU SELECT.I JUST LOVE YOU. I'M SURE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. LOTS OF LOVE AND KEEP ON GOING. GOOD LUCK.

este proyecto me parece lo maᡸimo, felicitaciones
gracias por tan buena m?, sigan adelante

I set up a station for REGIONAL music and got tired of 'skipping' ahead.

Like "CHICAGO Blues", "Motown" or "New Orleans".

I would like to define a station with tighter parameters. Adding a location and genre could help some?

WHERE IS THE 400+ CRITERIA LIST??!!

WHY IS IT A SECRET?

DOES IT EVEN EXIST?

I'M NOT HAPPY WITH "AND MANY OTHER FEATURES..."

Could You please analyze some Jet Set Satellite, they are releasing a new album called "Vegas". They only released one album up until now, It is called "Blueprint", They are a good band, so please, add some Jet Set Satellite!

Hey! I just wanted to say, you guys have a great selection of unknown punk bands, that I do love, but what about the well-known ones?

I just added the artist Kana.

Suddenly I started hearing reggae. Lots of it.

Turns out there are two Kanas or perhaps Kanae...

I mean this one:

http://openspeech.org/kana.html

You guys need to expand your jpop/jrock selections.

Wonderful that I found Pandora - listening to my favorites and hearing music by the way I normally would not find here in Germany.
You do a great job.

Truly one of the best additions to my computer in years.

Excellent work!!

I am a great fan of Pandora, and have been for most of this year now. I happen to be an American who grew up all of his life in France and, thus, still love to listen to French music--being fluent in French and all that. I hadn't thought of plugging in some of my favorite artists until just recently. A few actually came up--like Francis Cabrel--but to my great dismay--NOT Jean-Jacques Goldman. He is, arguably, the most versatile and prolific singer songwriter from the past several decades there! Can we get some Goldman analyzed! It's enthralling! It would be very interesting to see who comes out with him...

Most of all--great job on all this musical labor Pandora!

you're amyzign!!!
(:

Hi, I joined Pandora in June. And I think that's the best thing that could have ever happened. I love listening to soulful and good country music but never had the chance to listen to all of them. Pandora has been so helpful in aiding this cause. I fell inlove with it the day I began using it.
I have so far enjoyes La Bamba, Country music mainly by John Denver, Garfunkel. My favoorite is Annie's song nd Jennifer Juniper. However, I have heard Annie's song just once and i am longing to listen to it for a very long time. Disappointed about that too.

Anyways, I think that the job of a music analyst seems very interesting although it has it's own difficult points. I want to know more about being a music analyst or a musicologist. ;-)

Thanks Lucia and the entire team. Appreciate this a lot.

nice job! with all due respect, a comment: of course Sabines is not related to Bisbal! They both are excellent -different styles, different generations .... To me, Sabina is better composer than singer, (I like his songs, not his voice); on the other hand, Bisbal is a remarkable singer and performer, that is why people love him so much. I like Sabines, of course but I do love Bisbal!

this is the place to be if you want to discover music!

I've been having a fun time listening to the stations I have created on this website, but I haven't been able to make one for Movie/Broadway tunes (I don't care which artists they come from, just as long as they were once played in a movie or a musical). I would also like to be able to search by composer, since it would make it easier to find some types of movie music, such as that done by John Williams. I would also like to hear marching band and drumcore music. There seems to be almost no songs for this.

I like alot of what you do, but when it comes to Dixieland - one of my favorite kinds of music - I can't understand how you rationalize all the stuff you put in that category that bears no resemblance of traditional dixieland music.

I had to put thumbs down on many songs by some of my favorite artists because they were Christmas songs. Also, I have a station I named ''Female Vocalists''. After rejecting more than twenty very good songs by very good male vocalists, you still don't get the idea. Is it possible for you to fine-tune the system to deal with such matters?

Hi guys, just wanted to tell you that you�re doing a great job, and off course, I listen to you all day...thanks from Paraguay...

O melhor site de musica que já conheci.
Um acervo extraordinario....

abraços

There are many nice Japanese songs by Utada Hikaru and she is quite famous in Asia. I hope that you are able to make her music more accessible in Pandora. All the best~!