Hi,

U are really skilled, don't you? Pandora's site looked very well to me and these new stuff U have added... amazing!!

Congratulations!

Árboles y ochos,
Víctor

I would like to tell you, what I tell my playlists:

thumbs up!
thumbs up!
thumbs up!
thumbs up!

Wow.

You guys are amazing. Best thing ever.

Ryan

Nice work guys!! What a great way to explore music!! I've been waiting for something like this! And it's getting better and better with this new backstage add-on!

Can't wait for the fourth enhancement! Keep it up!

One suggestion/feature-request: A button to 'move' a song/artist to another station... Sometimes a song comes along on a station not specially designed to play that kind of songs....at moments like that, I hate to press the "I don't like it" button bcs I do but not for this particular station.

Cheers Jean-Paul

It would be an understatement to refer to you folks as masterminds.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

" Life without music , I can't go on " - AAE(Awareness Arts Ensemble)

PEACE

HoLy S#*@!!!
You´re amazinG!!! Never thought it could be better... and you tell me there is still more??
Wait till I tell my friends.
Tomorrow I´ll tell the people form the newspaaer to put something about you on the sunday´s news here from Brazil... See ya!

Hey guys.

I was told about this site by my mate. It's absolutely fantastic. It's got all the music I like on it. This is the best music website I know, bar none!

So yeah, I want to thank you for the service and the fact that you've opened new doors for me in terms of music artists and music genres. And for that, well done.

Again, thanks very much,
-CuZzA

Very nice. The Artist page becomes an excellent way to track which of the artist's albums you've managed to cover to date. Today is major step forward for the site. Congratulations.

Thanks so much for this feature! I keep thinking that Pandora is such a clear example of what the net was supposed to spawn, and then you add another perfect feature, and I get blown away again.

So I love the new upgrades! One thing tho, ever since the move from "favorites" to "bookmarks" I get runtime errors on every page of Pandora I click through. Could just be the computer I am using - I mostly listen to Pandora at work.

I can't even imagine the work that went into compiling all that backstage information - it's staggering...
wicked wicked wicked wicked

I already thought this was the best site ever. A lot of sites that upgrade themselves end up upgrading themselves into the toilet. This just keeps getting better.

Wow, very nice. This is very good. I'm very impressed. Thank you.

Oh my gods, I may swoon.

Come on, admit it. You all just sit around and plot: "How can we make our devoted following leap out of their seats and bounce aruond shouting 'YES! YES! YESSSS!' today?"

Also, is it me or did you do something to improve the sound quality? Not that it was bad before (OK, some songs were a little quieter than others but so what?) However, the song I'm listening to right now sounds a lot cleaner today. I'm hearing things I did not hear when it played yesterday.

Whew. I need to calm down. I'll just say that if you ever work out a portable Pandora interface PLEASE warn us with gentle hints over a period of a month or so. The shock and joy might be too much for our little hearts.

Enjoy the weekend, you have earned it.

I would like to say what a magnificent archival music library you have the compet. cannot get near. you guys are doing such a great marketing job that even though there is no phone number to contact you I may actually uses my credit card and buy a cd or2

Does Pandora sell shares on the NY stock market? If you keep these kinds of incredible improvements up, you'll soon be growing faster than google!

The new interface with the easy-access thumbs up/down is awesome too. Now all you need to do is start putting lyrics on the backstage site and I can forget about all the other music sites I've ever used.

Better yet, team up with lyriki.com for lyrics and wikipedia for some of the backstage info, and I can forget about half the rest of the internet too!

Gotta agree - the new interface is excellent. Keep innovating!

Still reeling from the Backstage shock, I just noticed the little icons.

OK, you win, I grovel at your feet. I'll have a child just so you all can have my first born.
My eye teeth are in the mail.

I especially like the idea of separating the up and down icons because I HAVE clicked on the wrong one before. I know I can correct it but onr feels a little stoopid when one cuts off a song one likes.

If memory serves, this makes six or possibly seven improvements to this site since February. I look forward to the next set, or leave it as it is. I'll be listening either way.

Many thanks!

Just wanted to say that I think that Backstage is pretty terrific. I especially like being able to find out about the "genomes" of music I like, without having to actually set up a station. Though I will admit, there are certainly some surprises here and there in your data base. I'm astonished to learn that Ruby Tuesday has "political lyrics", or that Black Diamond Bay has strings.

CONTINUALLY amazing me, continually AMAZING.

Hands down THE best. Thumbs perpetually up!

Thank you!

It is wonderful website! I wanted to thank you for creating it! I have found out that I actually like many musical styles that I never thought I'd ever listen. The site only gets better and better! I have found the songs I have loved, so now I know who sings them.

Thank you guys!

Just when I thought it couldn't get better... you guys still manage to pull all this new stuff out of the hat!

Congratulations on the great work and many many thanks!

This site keeps on getting better and better. The only thing that bugs me is when I put a specific song to search for it doens't show up immediately. Sometimes it does later in the playlist and sometimes it doesn't at all. But nonetheless, Pandora has inspired me to further expand my musical knowledge and tastes. Keep at it

- J-dawg

Like a fine chef crafting a wonderful new dish, PANDORA has once again done it. Congrats!

Those other restaurants better watch out. Master Tim is in the house and he's baking new goodies daily!!!

- D

great job with backstage, one really neat feature you could add is to view all the songs you have from a specific country and by this feature of course list what country a given artist is from and give an option to "view more artists from this country". Great job

Where have you been all this time? I found you by accident. But now I know,i'm in and hooked. Thanks

Really amazing... Congratulations!

awesome app.

I really want a stand alone software based player.

web browsers suck up too much memory.

of course great work. been a user (and yes it's addictive) since Jan 06. sorry if this comment is a bit out of place-

I was wondering if there's a way to get an automatic playlist in text format (or .xls or .doc) of what I"ve been listening to for a few hours. It would be real nice to have that instead of scrolling all the way to the left on the station and manually writing down the ones I really liked. Just thoughts... maybe I can do this and I just don't know how.

So, I just signed up for pandora since every one else at my office uses it. I have noticed that the artist and album will highlight when you put the cursor over it, but I can't click on it to bring up artist/album info. If there is any way that can be done, that would be swell. Otherwords, thanx for the site.

Kerstin

Backstage is a nice idea, but it does not always work properly. For example try to find Zorn in the artist search. John Zorn will show up. If you click on that name you will see Zorn's discography, name and ... the bio of Jamie Saft. This bio has link to John Zorn again. If you follow that link you will end up on Naked City entry, but with the bio of John Zorn. Seems like the DB IDs were somehow messed up when the data was imported from AMG. Also, since the Backstage data is just a copy from AMG, it would be great to see all info including full discography, credits, etc or at least have the link to the page of that artist at AMG.

PS Unrelated question: Is there a chance to get more artists? For example Otomo Yoshihide has plenty of records both in Japan and in the US, but his name is totally unknown to the system. I'm sure though that Scott Rosenberg is familiar with that name.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Kerstin,

It sounds to me like your popup blocker is keeping the pages from showing up. You can find instructions for turning off your popup blocker for Pandora here:

http://www.pandora.com/popup_blockers.shtml

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

you get the info you want and I get the info I want in the same time - you guys are the new i-gurus !!!
stay cool and keep on digin

I've been enjoying your site for the last 4 months or so now...picked up on some great new stuff like the Great Lake Swimmers, Celso Fonseca and lots of reggae sounds I wasn't familiar with.

Technically, everything's great except for the 'Minimize' button- it's just an 'Reset' button, basically- which is tricky, because clicking on it I thought would simply minimize the screen and not turn off and reset the player...

The backstage upgrade is especially proper...cheers

The only thing I could ask for from Pandora is a higher-quality stream. 192 or 256 kbps perhaps? Maybe this would be a good feature to differentiate subscribers versus everybody else.

Good work guys, love the idea, but I find last.fm is more consistent with my musical tastes :-/

Yes, I found my favourite music here.
Thank you for making my day :)

Berta

what would make pandora better is if the pandora player had a time marker for example to show how much time has elapse during the playing of the song

Hey Pandora:

You guys are great.
Keep up the great work!

Jason.

This definitely doesn't suck.

sorpendente!!! simple irresistible! son grandes!!!
big respect!!

Oh Mother!

You oh so good.
Ever since I found out about Pandora i'm wired on 24/7...the whole algorythm stuff made me go crazy (am reconsidering my hatred for maths). I want to work for you.

Excellent improvements!

I have noticed that certain albums only offer a couple of selections. For example, "pushing the salmanilla envelope" by Jimmies Chicken Shack is constantly giving me the same three songs and nothing more. I have tried making other stations under other song titles off of that album and still get the same 3. What about the other 8?

Same thing with these albums..

Blind Melon "Soup"
Queensryche "operation mindcrime"
The Church "Uninvited like the clouds"

Pretty much all albums by "the church" have been only slightly represented.

"Hail Social" by Hail Social is an excellent album but I always just get 4 of the 9 tunes on that album.

When I type in "David Bowie", I should get more of his stuff from the 70's and 80's. Im getting mostly stuff off his newer albums. This is true with a lot of artists whos career spans decades.

Please bring back the "printable list" feature because its much easier to scroll through your selections.

Also, I second the opinion posted earlier about a complete discography being available when clicking on a band.

And lastly, I think a wonderful feature would be to give the year of the release nxt to each album name or song name that appears on the playlist. I think that would be a very neat feature.

I know Im complaining but dont get me wrong, I love this site and Im on it all day.

I simply love the new thumbs up/down feature. Great work. Pandora's my homepage. ^_^

You can find plenty of surprises if you simply click "why did you play this song" often enough.

This song by Britney Spears features a male vocal:

http://www.pandora.com/music/song/fb7d42bc3b0057d2

Some rather interesting things pass for upbeat lyrics:

http://www.pandora.com/music/song/e7716f05d8f06ccb

A sample of the lyrics: "If you don't like my attitude, then you can F off." "New York is not for little pussies who scream."

That might seem upbeat to some, especially if you're used to downbeat lyrics and find yourself thinking "at least Madonna seems to be happy," but to really see upbeat lyrics in action, you need to listen to "Way of the World" by Jump5.

"I'm lost in you. I've got to be. Spinning and flashing and dashing... With every turn I'm taking. It's heaven in the making. The moments race right past me. Sometimes I burst out laughting. It's the way of the world of you and me. It's every wish I ever made or ever thought I might. All I know is I love the way I feel."

I'm also surprised by which songs have "political lyrics," particularly because many of them are songs which I believe have "upbeat lyrics," but I've never seen "upbeat lyrics" mentioned for them. This song, "Bring It All Back" by S Club 7, for example:

http://www.pandora.com/music/song/7be31b4993c8cec0

A sample of its lyrics: "Don't stop. Never give up. Hold your head high and reach the top. Let the world see what you have got. Bring it all back to you." Perhaps motivational, but I fail to see how a song which fails to express a political opinion can be said to have political lyrics.

Then there's Mustache T.V. by Atom & His Package:

http://www.pandora.com/music/song/9e0972a6f5f94dd4

I'm not sure how a song about throwing away your antidepressants because you no longer need them failed to get the upbeat lyrics stamp. The only thing offensive in the song is the F word, its otherwise very positive and upbeat. You have to look at the context in which he says "you're a god-****ed genius and a mother****ing idiot." The very next line is "but I can never stay mad because I'm forever in your stupid debt." It's clearly a matter of being in the habit of using extreme language whenever emotional, but it's a very positive emotion in this song.

I've sent email about the first two before, but they're yet uncorrected. I haven't yet said anything about the others and many more because it basically comes down to "What is Pandora's defition of upbeat lyrics?" and I don't know.

Do we define upbeat lyrics as lyrics that express a positive outlook on life? Do we include lyrics that express a positive future but a negative present? What about lyrics that express happiness with something via critisism of everything else? Are upbeat lyrics any lyrics which merely aren't downbeat? I know what I think upbeat lyrics are, and I'm sure everyone else knows what they think upbeat lyrics are, but if the entire Genome isn't based on the same definition then it means less when two songs share the "upbeat lyrics" attribute and they you're playing a song which may not be so related after all.

It's hard to say that anything is wrong without knowing the definitions that The Music Genome Project uses. Without seeing the complete data, it's also impossible to say what is missing.

Lyrics are perhaps one area where it may be beneficial to apply listener feedback to the song selection. When I'm in a hardcore listening mood, I wouldn't mind if a box poped up to ask "do you believe this song has upbeat lyrics?" Including user feedback in song selection should of course be optional for the listener, but for lyrics in particular, I believe it may do more good than bad, provided when asked "does this song have upbeat lyrics" the listener is also presented with a clear defition of what upbeat lyrics are, so that everyone is applying the same metric.

It often seems Pandora is more interested in romantic lyrics than upbeat lyrics. I unfortunately don't have a good example, except to metion "What Dreams are Made Of" by Hilary Duff.

http://www.pandora.com/music/song/f41b459a663af362

It also has romantic lyrics. Some romantic lyrics are upbeat, but most are not. They're usually either "I love you, I love you, I love you" or "why do I love someone who sucks so much?" It's lyrics such as "I could almost kiss the stars for shining so bright" that I want to hear.

However, it seems that if a song is even slightly romantic, and I mean very slightly, it gets the "romantic lyrics" stamp.

Spinnin' Around by Jump5:
http://www.pandora.com/music/song/bd5de67f9fb23dfe

Here we have a song that in all likelyhood, like every Jump5 song, is secretly about God. This song's romantic lyrics consist entirely of "make it last, take it slow" and "I'll keep my heart, my eyes on You" and yes, the lyric site I pulled the lyrics from capitalized "you" and we all know what that means. Nothing else in the song is even remotely romantic, so I don't understand why it is marked as having romantic lyrics.

I'm happy that the Genome missed (either intentionally or accidentally) the religious nature of Jump5's lyrics. I don't particularly like religious lyrics, I simply like Jump5 because the religious aspect of most of Jump5's lyrics is so subtle that if you're not paying close attention you won't even notice it. Being so subtle, it shouldn't be included, unless it can be included as "subtle religious lyrics" or something of that sort. The upbeat lyrics, however, are so obvious... Vertigo may not be something that adults enjoy, but kids intentionally make themselves dizzy all the time. It's a very happy and fun song.

"Upbeat lyrics" vs. "romantic lyrics" is a good example of what I was talking about the other day; how it is difficult to hear a particular attribute without hearing the songs which it is most prevalant in. Most songs with upbeat lyrics are songs with romantic lyrics, but most songs with romantic lyrics do not have upbeat lyrics. It isn't too difficult to create a station with a fair bias towards upbeat lyrics, but when I start thumbing down those romantic lyrics, my favorite songs disappear because many of them also have romantic lyrics (according to Pandora). There aren't enough songs with upbeat lyrics to thumb up to make Pandora realize that my love for upbeat lyrics outweighs my hate for romantic lyrics.

Here's an idea... Does the algorithm place a limit on how much someone can like a particular attribute? For example, it might limit everything to a number between -1 and 1, so that after I've surely pushed each coefficient to its limit, it thinks that "+1 * upbeat lyrics + -1 * romantic lyrics + -1 * some other attribute I only care for in songs with upbeat lyrics" equals a song that I don't like. While it seems logical to limit them, those numbers really have to be allowed to go as far as feedback indicates they should. Upbeat lyrics really are an attribute that can make me like a song despite many other things being wrong with it. Take "Penpals" by Sloan for example. I nearly thumbed it down as quickly as I thumb down every Sloan song until I noticed just before clicking the button that the lyrics were totally unlike other Sloan lyrics. By the end of the song I was quite willing to forgive everything else that I didn't like about it.

On the plus side, "What Dreams Are Made Of" seems to be a particularly awesome station tonight. "Electronica influences, disco influences, danceable grooves, groove based composition, mild rhythmic syncopation" yes! It seems to also be stuck on minor key tonality, but whatever...

I'm starving myself listening to it. I'm afraid to go and eat. I know there's no reason why it should be different when I return, but Pandora seems to go through phases and I hate to miss the good ones because they are so bloody awesome! I fear it may not be the same tomorrow.

...or 30 minutes later, despite no feedback whatsoever on the station. Those first 20 songs were awesome. I just wish Pandora would match songs so well all of the time, or at least that giving feedback would cause it to match songs better. Pandora is now saying the same things when I click "why did you play this song," but whatever the magic element was, it's forgotten and is now simply playing ordinary songs from the 80's again. At least I can go eat now. Maybe I will be similarly blessed tomorrow.

Hi Peter,

You got us -- with over 20,000 artists and hundreds of thousands of song and album page, there are linkages and connections that aren't perfect. The Zorn bio is one of those mistakes. I'll se what we can do to get it corrected.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

What a great job you have done. I listen at work, at home and would listen to you in my car if I could. Looking forward to checking out the new changes you've made. Since it's my birthday today, I consider this my finest present. Thanks!

Shoot, you topped yourself this time, you made yourself bigger! I have one question, how long does it take to analyze one album, with all the music genome and stuff? Pandora is spreading like, dare I say it?, no I won't...

I am a true pandora fanatic - so far your site has helped me discover over 20 artists that I would otherwise have never known about. Truly, what you people are doing is just nothing short of brilliance.

I think you should try to create a code so, when people are using MSN Messenger, it can take advantage of the "what I'm listening to" command. Think of it, you could display messages on hundreds of thousands of MSN Messengers that say, "I'm listening to (artist and song) on Pandora.com!" Talk about free advertising ;)

Pandora is the best, it reacts to positve and negative Reinforcement.

what a change in listening!!!!
keep'm coming guys!!!!
doing good job!!!
love the musice....just what the doctor ordered!!!

I´m completely hooked on Pandora, it´s great, but I think it´s a great space for people to expand their musical taste and I´ve typed a lot of artists and songs you don´t have yet. I suppose its because you focus on music from the US, but remember there´s a whole world out there: Latin American music, African Music, etc. I´d love to hear more of it!!

Pandora playlists are constantly playing in my apartment. My entire family have been absolutely LOVING the grooves, atmospheres, inspirations, and thrill of discovering great new music.

We're hooked.

O pandora é muito bom, pouco conhecido aqui no Brasil, mas aprovado por quem o ultiliza!!!!

Just wanted to let you know, we dropped by a couple of weeks back on a word of mouth, and this has got be one of America's best kept secrets. Oh yeah I'm from Canada whatever that means:> Any how the this mouth is wording to others up here. Keep it up, you guys/girls rock as do Music Genomes:>

I'm not sure what exactly changed, but I can't even see the player anymore. It still plays, but I only see a blank space where the player should be.

Fortunately, the "minimize" link works and gives me back a player that I can actually see. Still, I'd like to see it work again - it was fine before!

Ooh, nice. I like the ability to bookmark artists; even better, this lets me see what albums of theirs you have up, all the better to create-station-from with.

wait, so you licensed the AMG database?

ssh valued_music_partner@amg.com
mysqldump amg_database > amg.sql
scp amg.sql tom@pandora.com:
exit
sudo mysql < ~tom/amg.sql

i think it took you longer to negotiate the deal and make the blog post than it took to bring the DB online :)

just kidding. WEB2.0 IS HARD!!!11

Hi Guys you are amazing.
As an amateur jazz muso I think this is the best thing that has happened ever.
Keep up the great work and congratulations
Kevin Speer

Woohoo!

I can't count how many times I've looked at the "Why did you play this song?" results and wonder what those "other similarities identified in the music genome project" were. Fantastic update guys!

What a GREAT site!!! I've been listening to another music site but this one beats it all to heck!! I actually get to fine tune what I want to hear!!!! FANTASTIC!! I love alot of different music and I love the fact that I can have different stations with the kind of music on them that I want to hear at that particular time. WAY TO GO PANDORA!!! I'm hooked!! Keep up the good work!!

I'm amazed by what you've done.

Howard Bloom
Founder of The Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd--publicists in the 1970s and '80s to Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, John Mellencamp, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Queen, Kiss, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, etc, etc.
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"-The Washington Post) and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker)
Recent Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Founder, The International Paleopsychology Project; Founder, The Big Bang Tango Media Lab
howardbloom.net
bigbangtango.net

all good but and i know you can't get to everything at once but...
how, how, how can small factory and super 5 thor not be in your database?!?!?!?!?!?!?

hey, love what you did to the website, now it's way faster to find info on the bands, create new stations and get recommendations, job well done, can't wait for your next upgrades....

Hell yea!! Good stuff keep the music rolling !

This is an awesome project.
Thanks for finding good new music for my ears!

just found pandora and think it's great. please check out johnnie johnson "the father of rock & roll" member of rock and roll hall of fame and many agree the best blues/rock & roll paino player that ever lived. best known as chuck berry's paino man his influence was tremendous.

LOVE IT NOW IF YOU HAD SHEET MUSIC WITH IT

Ever since I found Pandora, I have been impressed by what I've been able to do to build a station for myself that I always enjoy listening to, and now you've gone and outdone yourselves--AMAZING!!

Hey, i came to Pandora yesterday...
Fantastic! Almost the coolest website I ever seen!

I love Pandora and thanks for you guys, stunning job!!!

Hi

Your website featured in todays 'Daily Telegraph'
So glad I found it. Know its going to provide me with hours of entertainment.

Read your article on Bill Haley and his Comets and found it to be the most honest and well written that I have read so far. Being one of those lucky enough to be in at the beginning of Rock 'n' Roll I can never understand why he has not been given the credit he deserves

Definitely the Father of Rock 'n' Roll and still greatly loved by us old timers

if pandora isn't the coolest thing i don't know what is.

Fantastic,i love Pandora,here in the Caribbean,thanks for sharing your efforts,GRACIAS!

truly amazing site! Y'all are, at the very least, genius'! Please keep up the awesome work! I am truly amazed!

Sarah

thats u m bosss

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

absolutely fantastic music- I am trully hooked to it thank you for your efforts

Katarra B.

You really get into this. Just about wrote
a book up there.

" It's hard to say that anything is wrong without knowing the definitions that The Music Genome Project uses. Without seeing the complete data, it's also impossible to say what is missing."

I believe you are refering to lyrics above.
I asked Pandora about including the lyrics
of a given song somewhere on the screen as
the song was playing. That would be plenty
for me. They said that there were legal
problems and it wouldn't happen.

The most upbeat lyrics I've heard recently:

Piece of it all (by Jann Arden)

Some of the saddest:

Calling God (by Jann Arden)

You're obviously a serious listener.

E-mail me anytime if you desire,

(in New England)

stephen_szpak@hotmail.com

I love you people. The new goodies are wonderful. It's all I listen to now.

I love your site i vist it every day. No to seem like a critic or a picky person but since i'm so honest i'll say that song rating system sucks. If you guys have ever been on yahoo's radio you see that there rating system is more effective. Most of the songs you play are what i like because of the ways you make the station but there are some that aren't good enough to give a thumbs up but not that bad to give thumbs down. On yahoo this particular is a solid 3. I suggest you make this minor ajustment and i'm sure you'll get more subscibers. Great site though. Good Job.

Tom-CTO One way you could make Pandora more visible is to write a plug-in for IChat and the other IM programs similar to the one that enables you to set your status as "Current Song in ITunes" Whatever you are listening to shows up as your online status message. "Current Song IN PANDORA" would be awesome. The people at http://yreuxsoftware.com/iChartwork.html have a great plug-in for Mac that changes your avatar in real time to the album cover of the song you are listening to.

Pandora rocks!

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to say thanks for a great site!! I work nightshift from 8pm to 8am 7 days a week and without this site feeding my brain with great music I could never handle it. You have stopped me going AWOL on many occasions. Don't ever stop!! Pandora RULZ!!

Hi,
I really like PANDORA - it has potential for all of us that think ordinary stations are to broad! We now have the chance to sculpt our own - terrific!

One wish I have seen others have, and I want to stress - whwn a song turns up on a staton where it shouldn't be it would be great to have a possibility to "move it" to another station already created, where it may be is perfect!

Another possibility - all the features/qualities that a song has - it would be wery intresting to have a possibility to create stations just by clicking in a list the preferred qualities - and change if the result is not the one you wished!

Thanks for the joy you are offering! /Björn

Just one word:

PERFECT!

This is exactly what I wanted! The backstage thing is awesome!

One suggestion: Make an option to reorder the stations

Ooops

Maybe I have Kat and Richard Cooper
confused. Sorry.

-Stephen

Crazy COOL ('~') A Thousand Blessings PRAISE The MOST HIGH "JAH Rastfari"

Keep it up, Pandora. You rock!

your George Jones music is GREAT!!!!!!

You guys rock!

I only know panadora since few days and i really enjoy it. Thanks you all for your great job.

If I can make a request, it would be interesting if we could search new songs from instruments.
In fact, I would like to listen harmonica but I don't know any people or music names and it seems very hard to find them without name.
I think it could be an useful option.

Huzzah! The best keeps on getting better

genius

wow! love this site! I just gave up my yahoo music account for you guys. keep it up, you have a great thing goin here.

Dear Pandora people

You guys have developed the most amazing thing that's happened to online music. And I thank you for helping me while the hours away at work.

I haven't stopped telling everyone about it from the first day Pandora was recommended to me by a friend. Oh yeah, I've also stopped listening to other online radio stations :-P

Keep up the wonderful work that you guys are doing at Pandora and I'll keep the feedback n suggestions coming in future.

X.
- daisy.

I'm enjoying the site. A friend of a friend told me about it at a party, so this site is definitely spreading by word of mouth.

The cool about Pandora is that it's helping me break out of my musical rut. There's a lot of cool music on the edge of my favorite genre, electronic industrial. I've been hearing some interesting techno, trance, house, breakbeat, jungle, electro, and downtempo. The artists and labels would love to hear the fact that I've actually been purchasing CDs of these newly found artists so I can hear this music in my car. Yeah, there are lot of misses; but, there are enough diamonds in the rough to keep me listening. It would cool if I could somehow listen to and control my station from a car radio.

The only problem I have with the site is that it seems to hog (or possibly leak) a lot of memory and over time I get a lot of Flash script warnings. It doesn't seem to matter what browser I'm using (Safari, Firefox for OS X and XP). Eventually the UI becomes very sluggish.

Its a very good music site!
i hope you guys dont stop with it!
i like it to much!
Greetingz Rick

this really is an awesome site. i love it. thanks!

thank you so much for pandora.

Pandora Rules!!!

I wanted to give my thanks for all you guys do. I love the new updates to the site. I just found it recently, and I've visited almost every day since then to listen to music while I browse the web. I told all my friends and family already! GREAT GREAT GREAT idea!

Thank you for my online "music appreciation" class! I love hearing new stuff from people I never would have heard of, and by singers I already like. This is like having the music collection of all of my friends right here in front of me! This is now what gets me through the workday :)

I have one request (I feel bad making it, with all of the great stuff you've already provided). Is there any way to have the song title appear in the title bar of the radio player window? It would be great if I could see the name and artist of the song without having to maximize the screen, especially if the boss is hanging over my shoulder, as is often the case.

Thanks, thanks, and more thanks!

I'm happy we have you, but I feel like there are some things you do half assed. Most channels for things that are beyond the mainstream are pretty weak. you have an opportunity to really HOOK an unrepresented audience! But i can't sit down and listen to any of the stations of bands that I LIKE. BBut ofcourse a matchbox 20 station sounds like a matchbox 20 station. I like wierd music like theresidents and stuff. You have it all in yoursystem but the stations suck. I dont mind mixing a little pop music in with my wierd music, but there is some underlying thing that you are missing here.

AND WHY USE ALL MUSIC GUID FOR BACKSTAGE???? ALLMUSIC IS FULL OF FALACIOUS INFORMATION.

I love pandora's music, thank you guys!
from veracruz, mexico

A big thank you to everyone connected with Pandora.

I have indeed discovered new artists that I would maybe not have done had I not stumbled upon this site.

The only draw back is that Pandora is setting me back quite a few bob buying CD's!!

Cheers again.

Ditto to Kevin Archibald's comment about the slowness and flash problems. And I also second Tommy's comment about the trouble with less mainstream stations.

Thank you for adding the "Backstage" feature.

Pandora is easily my favorite streaming media. For the last few years, I had been worried that my musical tastes were growing stale, and that I was missing out on new music that might appeal to me. Since I signed up with Pandora, I've learned about other artists whose albums I could add to my collection, as well as new releases by my favorite bands that I wouldn't have been made aware of, otherwise. Thanks for all that you do.

This is pretty tight, you guys got some fat play list. keep up the good work! Lets get it!

You cant keep us in ropes, whats to come? .. whats to come??? Thanks for providing my rawk-out!PLUR~

I must join the army of pandora's fans and say that this is one of the greatest proyects ever.

The backstage idea is among the best, and the update to the interface in the player works wonders.

keep up with the good job.

Dear Music Makers,
A Job well done,are you going Public soon on the stock market?????
Making things better, thats the way.
Thanks so much.

Much better!!! Efficiency is key~

AMAZING THING ....... yust love it very much

Incredible idea.

One suggestion though, would it be possible to select the specific musical elements to explore? I love how the music connects by it, but Pandora does occasionally misunderstands what I like about a particular song.

If I could tell pandora that I specifically like "minor key tonality" or "tight bass" I'm sure we could get along a little better.

Just an idea.

I'm In Lovee... With Pandora :D
But please, don't go do things like going to the stock market! Shareholders are killing creativity in ANY way!! Be wise pease. But i'm not realy afraid, looking at the wise ideas and creations ou people have made(Y)
Greetings!

Hi. I just found Pandora - wonderful. Thank you very much. (why is there no charge for this?)

Love the new stuff, keep up the good job.

A suggestion: I use the Bookmarked Songs feature to keep record of bands I like and I've never heard about, so I can check them out later. But it often happens to me that after some time I can't remember well what did I like about a patricular song. So, I thought it would be nice if I could add a personal comment or description of the songs on my profile.

My first day here and I am HOOKED!!! Although I havent't gotten much work done here at the office today...letting all my friends and co-workers know about this amazing site...thanks so much for creating this masterpiece!

xoxoxox

I love you...though my wallet may not, since I am buying music from new artists all the time now...

You guys rock and roll and country. Got one little problem. It seems to have slowed down between songs for some reason. Could it be my puter or is it just so many people know about this site now?

Pandora is one of the greatest projects in the music history. Thanks for the great effort.

I also have a suggestion. I think there must be a feedback type like this:
"I like this song but this song mustn't play in this station"
I may be hard to process this feedback unless user doesn't specify which station this song must belong to. Anyway, I know you can do it :)

Best Regards

My son pointed me in your direction. Wow. Glad to find you.

Hello
My friend introduced me to your site. I am currently living overseas and listening to something familiar is comforting. This "station" is a real gem. Thank you.

I just wanted to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, you smart little cookies! This has made my day :) sending lots of love in your direction!

Concert ticket $50-200
Music CD $30
Pandora priceless

been enjoying pandora for a year now, and it doesnt get any better than this.

I just found your station when I was searching for free internet radio to listen to in my lab and dorm room. I am very grateful for the site and appreciate the fact that people are allowed to listen to quality music and learn new songs without having to pay. Most stations make you pay for listening to the radio music by playing ads every few minutes. This is not very attractive when all you want is to listen to music. Students don't have much income and cannot afford to pay for most luxuries, like ad-free radio. I really appreciate your generosity and ingenuity. I am telling everyone I know about your site and hope that after I graduate I will be able to support your good work!

Thanks a lot!
Rose

The thing I like best about Pandora is all the music I like that I've never heard before. You guys do a fantastic job . Thank you.

cheers Dave

Thank you so much!

Cool Idea! The backstage is really useful - I think well add something to about this in the forum.

Currently we are discussing our favorite stations and sharing them with each other - good way to get other influences and meet up with each other.

See you at the (un)official Forum:
www.pandora-forum.com

you guys are really good ! Thumps up !

cathy

A truly great idea. I hope the business model works out, unlike what happened to FM Radio, and Cable TV.
Works really well, learned about many new artists
Love the randomness of radio, without the commercials

The coolest site ever!
Great Work!

Gus

Wonderful job guys; clear concise UI, good quality, and smart back-end system. This will definitely become one of the most popular music sites on the internet. Congrats!

this station is off the hook
I LOVE IT

Since 1/006 I have requested several artists that y'all didn't recognize, but later you'd find them and play them for me, and I've gotta say, hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

Even so I do ask for yet still more. You tend to play about 5 songs per artist-maybe this is by design, but I suspect you are busy gathering a wider variety of songs as well as artists, even as I write this. Oh,boy! ! I can hardly wait...
Love, Can Radio

I can't put into words what Pandora has created for Jazz lovers. Dallas is not a Jazz city so you see we're isolated from old and new stuff. The only thing I have to say. No man can withstand the elements in which prevails against his heart to the extent that he knows nothing.
Pandora has created new life for the Jazz constituents.

A great idea, a very professional and complex set of musical criteria with impressive sorting results. The final results look like using artificial intelligence in categorizing music. I was so impressed I instantly started to inform all my 'musical' friends about your project.
I can finally listen to new (for me) music that seems to be exactly what I like. I was stuck to my old playlist for a few years, never being able to expand it ...
I have but one comment about the player interface that looks kind of 'out of fashion' and rough, although it is very logical, organized and user friendly. I would agree to contribute freely with a new skin style that would bring a more stylish look to this wonderful product (I am a graphic designer, and a pretty appreciated one too.. :)). Contact me if interested..
Cheers
Franco

thank you so much for sharing pandora =) it's what i've been looking for for a long time and i'm glad it's here, and it's pure music, minimal commercialisation. it's a wonderful gift to the world so again, thank you very very much!

love this stuff! everyone i introduce to it, loves this stuff! it's just great stuff!

one suggestion:
don't play the "thumbs up" songs so often. i can be listening to a radio station for a couple hours, and the same song(s) will play 2-3 times in that span. but, the only option to get it not to play so much is for it not to play for a month? that's a bit extreme.

other than this, everything is balls, yo!

Pandora is awesome. Just one feature is missing...It so that you can forward the song and listen to the track in the middle. Some intro's of songs are really (yawn)...Anyway, keep up the good work.

OFF THE HOOK!!!!

wow.. you're freaking amazing. Especially the ska selection.. wow.

Great site. I tried some of your competitors, but yours is clearly superior for a number of reasons, including the selection and interface.

Best,
Leonard

I reccomend the site to all my college friends.

I have an idea for a good improvement. How about occasionally requesting songs (or albums) by the artist that inspired me to create the station. This would save me from switching stations and help refine the station developing process.

Thanks for the time

I keep telling folks about this site and they keep saying "Thank you!" - so first of all, let me please pass these thanks along to the Pandora team!

Secondly, I have got to second what someone said up-thread, about having a feature where you can move a song or songs from a less-appropriate station to a more appropriate one.

Keep up the good work, Pandora!

Quioero decir que estoy impresionado por Pandroa, ya cruzo fronteras en todo el mundo, es increible que esto exista, pero me gustaría que mejoren su calidad un poco en cuanto a canciones en español.

FELICITACIONES, son unicos

Alejandro Kerpel

Wow! you guys make whoever made Napster look silly. Love the tunes, the tips, the whole thing is awesome, its sites like this one that make people wanna stay online longer and pay for highspeed internet. And just a suggestion how bout making a mix station like a station that takes randomly in certain order songs from other playlists. Like from pop to r&b then to rap or hip hop

Wow! you guys make whomever made Napster look silly. Love the tunes, the tips, the whole thing is awesome, it's sites like this one that make people wanna stay online longer and pay for highspeed internet. And just a suggestion how bout making a mix station like a station that takes random songs orders them so theres a rythm (like from softer to soft to hard)from the existing playlists. this way I get all the goodies in 1 bag

Actually, I suspect that you guys are out there reading my mind. The programming is what I want to hear about 95% of the time.

You've got such a variety of music available. I've programmed K D Lang, Chris Botti, Lou Reed, Count Basie, Prince, Ben Taylor, Barry White, Duran Duran....in other words, all over the map.

Our computers at work are set so that we can't pick up any streaming audio. Drat. It would sure make the day go by more pleasantly.

I have to thank my daughter for telling me about Pandora. I've since become a devoted listener. We got home from dinner about seven, discovered that even with satellite and cable there was nothing on tv I wanted to watch, so I've been here for a little over three hours happily listening to my Annie Lennox station while I've been in chat rooms or playing games while my wife is making a quilt.

Live long and prosper, and may God bless.

amaze..amaze....awww.awww.i like this folks.music is my life.

eh, I give you maybe four out of ten. I keep getting mediocre singer-songwriters with very little characters. The elements are there, but I can't say I've been blown away.

You are great, this feature is really wonderful, I love it...I must tell it to my friends...
did you send mail about it ? I don't remember

Thanks !

What a great music! Congratulations.
Musica grandiosa! Felicitaciones (Spanish)
Martin - Argentina

U are great!
And all my friends says so aswell!!!!!
/Addicted

I think that Pandora is very good.
Is there any chance you can create a desktop edition: one that you don't need the internet for?

That would be very nice!

Kudo's Pandora!

If I might paraphrase . . ."this is fun. a little twisted, but fun. . ."

I'm likin' the mix, and the means to blank out some of the dreck.

Saludos Todos

This is amazing! Almost every new song fits my style...

wow!! excellent site. its got all my favourites. awesome sound quality too..

Great,I can´t understand who can do it, but you do it. It´s amazing

Super! I love jazz and you are the best. I wish I could download to my mp3.

Is there a way?

I agree with Jean Paul about liking a song/artist but not for that particular station. It WOULD be good to move a song to a dif station instead of a thumbs down :(

i am so glad to find you, when i get tired of the rock-a- billy on tv, i just go to pandora's and listen to some good old country.thank you.so much.
Aline

Hello guys,

I discovered your site when I was working with a sewdish guy who gave me the link and since then, I keep listenning every night at work, and also I do it home, I just can't stop listenning to it!!!
Finally I got my spanish music and I discovered new bands I would never get on radio, even thou it should...

Thank you all for your job and your high quality standard

Johann

There are many streaming music sites out there, and this is one of the best. The music chosen is actually like the artist I entered, a most accurate system. Thank you, and please, keep up the good work.

Love Pandora-At first was nervous with the new music but after a while I found all this music I loved and never knew about.

This is really amazing ,how did you do it ?You guys are full of energy and you are really talented ! This is really personal , You type your favorite song and then it just played like playing your own cd or mp3! And the good thing is that we still can send you guys about our comment and suggestion ! Really AMAZING ! Have fun doing it ! Good Luck !

Catherine

This is without doubt the best thing on the internet there has ever been. From someone who loves music, really really loves music, thank you!!!

Great idea, thank you for giving me a preview of this kick-ass concept!

I wish you speedy progress in making this service available to the rest of the world (also in my own interest ;)

Hopefully your licensors will eventually discern that its a good thing if people worldwide can discover new artists within their field of preference - and in return generate revenues.

You're doing a great job! Just looking for "Rainbow", i was not realy amazed of hearing "Deep Purple" as well, but when i heared "Eddie Money" - i've never heared about him before - i knew, that this is a service i'll never miss again. Do you have an idea of getting pandara in my car? Whithout having to remove the passengers seat for pc, gsm and some other equipement? Go on! And to make sure: What's about a FlashLight for mobile phones? (Maybe you have to push a little on the "Flash guys"!) Once you got this, what's an IPod any longer? Enyoing...

it is a good way of listeing to my type of misic

hey, does any body know the artist and song title to a song i heard on hear (rap song)

Lyrics - HIV HOP, buy, release, MCs don't pressure me, skill, fully take over... like that

Great program!

A small suggestion: How about being able to exclude based on a particular genome like "vocal" to have a station that will never play a song with vocals?

Keep up the fantastic work. I'm hooked!

First: You guys are simply "Truly Masterminds." You all were already the best, but now you have turned the best into Better. I no longer listen to the radio anymore, no one trying to sell me anything.

Second: A request/suggestion- could you add the video to selected songs, and allow song swapping between radio stations.

Lastly please continue provide the Best of the Best cause you guys are second to none. Congrats and may SUCCESS always be yours.

Thank You,

A.L. Powe I

I have a small suggestion for you...i'd like to see the videos for all the songs that the radio is playing...

How about a point-scale (1 to 5?) rating instead of just a binary 'like it' / 'don't like it'? I suspect this request has come up before.

BTW, I really like the speed at which you make changes.

You may have hundreds of thousands of songs on your database, but I've noticed that not all of those songs are actually "genomed". Many albums, for example "Everything you Need" by Slightly Stoopid, are only slightly represented; only tracks 1 and 11 actually HAVE MUSICAL INFORMATION, while the other tracks, while enterable in the database and in creating a station, DON'T HAVE ANY GENOME INFORMATION ATTACHED. So what happens when I input "Runnin' With A Gun", which isn't genomed? I honestly don't know, but this seriously undermines Pandora. Is it that you just don't have the time to put textual genome information for all songs on the Backstage page, so you only choose a few highlights, or do only TWO out of FOURTEEN songs actually have individual genome information?

I have to voice dissent on the idea of moving songs from one station to another. In my opinion there are far more pressing improvements needed. Even though it might be heartbreaking to thumbs-down a song that you like but doesn't belong, the fact is that Pandora played a song that didn't belong. Lets work on fixing the problem, not making dealing with it less uncomfortable.

Thanks.

I just wanted to say that this site ROCKS! The sound quality is excellent and you play a lot of music that I like or am begining to like. The only suggestions I can think of is to try and do a little more with the home page. Give it a little character. Keep Jammin!

i dont know how you do it... but its amazing
within an hour i had a complete new list of great bands to listen to. unreal

This is just the single best website EVER! You guys are amazing! I can listen to the music I like for hours! Thank you 4 ever and ever!!!!!

I just have one word to say and it's AMAZING, guys i love your site, thanks from Mexico.

Great website. I have discovered loads of new music that I have fallen in love with! Great job!

I love this place. I was searching for free music that lets me pick, well there it was at the top of the page. Pandora.com.... I love this place!!

Hello from Germany

I just wanted to say thx for this amazing page. Great idea. In Germany there is already a big community of people who play pandora all day long.

Viele Grüße aus Deutschland (greetings from Germany)
JOE

I'm blown away what I could do after a couple of practice hours. Pandora could become an addiction for me...

EXCEPT... I don't yet know if I can listen to my stations while on my online forum. Pandora goes off when I click to another website. Can somebody please email me and/or click over to my forum & tell me whether it's possible to listen to my Pandora stations like I do with streaming music? Then I will just need Apple to male me a jacket which is a computer and I'd live in it. LOL

You have created a monster that all people should truly love. I will tell everyone I know of your greatness

Hello from the UK, boy you guys have restored my faith in America!

This is using the internet as it should be used.

Keep up the good work, absolutely brilliant.

Hey arnold, thanks for bringing up that point in the proper thread. I think the fact that I put my June 20 comment on it in the "...more of Pandora's Music Analysts..." thread made it destined to oversight. And thanks again to Pandora for adding Backstage. When I noticed that the songs that actually have "features" are, when applicable, the singles from the album, I realized that Pandora is meant more for the casual top 40 listener looking for underground stuff than the underground listener looking for other great under-discovered bands. I think Pandora thought people will type Ashley Simpson in and we'll be able to feed them great undiscovered female led rock bands, not that fans of those underground bands will type them in and get Ashley Simpson. Who needs help discovering the top 40?

Sorry, I'm a hopeless cynic, but love what Pandora is trying to do and hope that you'll succeed

Best.Website. Ever.

-Edmon-

great place... plays exactly the kind of music I like with no hassle. keep up the good work

This is excellent. Keep making the world a better place.
LA

The web is really cool, but being from Spain, I find that there are a lot of really cool Spanish bands that are not in the list...

You guys have absolutely the greatest site on the web! Love it, love it!!!

I think the job u did is great! And it's even greater that u r continuing to improve the site

thanks to you i've discovered dozens of amazing artists!!

keep on the good work !

Byebye

SAm (france)

Viva la choice!!and good support!!

I don't know if this is the right place to mention this but Pandora is seriously flawed.

I really like the premise, that you are trying to introduce music with similiar qualities to analyze what attracts people to certain music but while you relate music in some complex ways you seem to completely forget the basics....

I'm sure there is a connection between something like Il Divo (The group) and "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" by Seals and Crofts but I Just don't see it, and after about the 50th (literally) thumbs down on the channel you would think Pandora would try to go back to WHAT I STARTED WITH (Il Divo) and try again instead of giving me country and pop music (It actually tried to have me listen to that guy who was married to Jessica Simpson...as if his vocal talents even match up to a 1/10th of Il Divo or any other real singers for that matter).

I think what would help is to allow us to choose certain things that we like about the music, for instance the voice type (At the very basic male or female). So far I have only had one channel come out as something even close to what I was looking for (A country channel based with country love songs). Any classical station I even try to begin sends me on a crazy path and good luck getting a foreign language station (Does pandora not get that after I send a thumbs down to 60 english songs and give a thumbs up to ONLY foreign language songs that maybe, just maybe, I don't want english?)

I think the stations need to start slower and instead of after the first song sending you off on some crazy random journey based on tiny little aspects of songs it needs to start with actually similiar music to establish if you like the music merely because it has "Major key tonality" or because of a combination of things.

Do you think a choice of "This song's ok" would work well? Just a suggestion.

Love the concept and the elegant way its been done here!
Kudos and more

The best web radio i've ever listened to.

You guys are great!
I'm amazed with the quality and I'm scratching my nose wondering how can it be free. Even with some adds...
Will you survive "free" like Bob Marley said?
I just started today. Hope I keep this opinion.

Obrigado!

Hey Brian, I feel your pain. You should check out the May 17 blog post on "Care and Feeding of your Stations" to get an in depth look at how Pandora chooses songs for you. I thought the same thing, but apparently Pandora is unable to cross reference what you've input. So instead of compairing Il Divo and "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" looking for shared similarities. It treats them as separate inputs. It will play a song similar to Il Divo, them two like Rudy Jean and so on. Frustrating I know, but I'm sure they're working on a way to intergate this kind of input, right? Anyone?

Please tell me how to keep my Pandora radio stations playing when I am online at other sites. I use Mozilla Firefox.

Right now if I want to google or post on forums, I can't listen to Pandora. Is there something I need to change about my browser, or does Pandora only work when I am no the page supporting my music?

This thing is unbelievable. i absolutely love it!

the best station ever,keep going with good work,you are the best radio ever

The artist catalogues are a bit thin. They should have all the artists work available.

On the other hand they do have some wonderfully obscure stuff like Matching Mole & Happy The Man (one one CD though)

The other problem I have encountered is the buffereing stream can be disrupted if your computer is doing too many tasks.

Just AMAZING can,t beleive i have found something so SPECIAL.
Thankyou so much

What can I say this is the greatest Program ever
It has all the bells and whistles and more
Thanks guy's for the Pleasant hour's of entertainment All i can say is
wow----wow----wowwwwwwwwwwww

wow! this site is amazing! thanks so much for helping me discover awesome new bands

Thank you so much for your music, your free music.
I have tried very hard to stump you, i've asked for old music (like Bessie Smith) or Salsa music
like Eddie Palmeri or mexican music, whatever I ask for you have.
You guys are truely amazing,please keep it up.

I have fallen in love with this site. You have turned me on to so many songs and artists that I had never even heard of before. I tell all of my friends about this site, because even though other sites like Yahoo create products like Launchcast to try and tailor songs to listener's tastes, this site is way more dead-on with its reccomendations. Keep up the good work, you've got one more devoted listener.

Your music selection process has repeatedly failed to distinguish folk music from country & western music. Granted, there are performers, mostly women, who can and do sing both kinds (Lucy Kaplansky is one) but they usually don't mix folk songs with C&W on the same album.

I love it so much, I've found so many new bands and artists that i never knew before, THANK YOU so much!!!

Die beste Internetseite, die ich kenne !! Meinen Gl�ckwunsch, weiter so !!

Wasn't able to read every prior posting, so not sure if anyone else had this suggestion - it would be helpful if the running time of a song was listed on the song profile. When it comes to 70s progressive rock, songs can be quite lengthy. When I get one I don't like, with the limited ability to fast forward past it, I would like to see how long I have until the next song.
All in all, a very enjoyable experience.

hey i'm Angela and its ma first tyme listening to PANDORA. Its great n i think that any1 could refister not only people dat live in da US, cause i'm from Canada. But anyways i styll listen to PANDORA.

I ♥ Listening to PAnDorA !!!!!

♥♥ Angela a.k.a CHuLa ♥♥

this is a break through. what an amazing site with pure intentions of enabling people to expand their music experience. the internet needs more people like the creators of PANDORA. well done guys!!!

Amazing! I love this!!

Its really a wonder!!! :)
The site rocks

wow...so good already...promises to be the best source for new music discovery in few years !!! keep it up ! thx alot

this website is one of the most progressive if not attentive to the listeners that i have run across. i have discovered that i like more of a variety from multipal genres than i previously thought possible. some are not so well but those same artists or groups do perform some amazing music. i am shocked at what i may enjoy and what i may discover along the way. i make it a point to introduce as many people as possible to this website. i have made some very happy listeners to the many friends that i have on the web. i only wish that this website will become the superior media in audio entertainment. i will happily spread the word to the masses as i wander through this wild untamed cyberworld. i must diligently wish that the people at the project keep up the fine work that would otherwise would never have been initiated otherwise. the detail in categorizing each and every song by specific and numerous characteristics that make up a songs signatures are so far advanced of simple genre selections. i enjoy this site and will be a listener for life.

Hi !

I just wanted to say you are BEST !
(and some more superlatives as you like)

I thought of something : would'nt it be good to be able to merge stations ? just an idea ...

Keep up the good work !

I keep hearing songs I'd forgotten all about. Thanks for the memories.

What a great addition to our day. Ourice listens to all the songs we like
Thank You soooo much.

Here's a suggestion: Categorize music by type of lyrics as well as by acoustic qualities. For example, lyrics could be categorized as political, joyfully in love, disappointed in love, angry, suicidal, erudite, etc.

I suggest a way of mixing up all the differents stations created by the user! Probably it exists and I dont know how to do that, anybody can tell?

You guys are amaizing!

Thank you for your time and for your incredible music.

How nice is to come back home and listen to my Charlie Parker Playlists.

Please keep up

Greetings from Argentina

I BELIEVE THAT THE MUSIC IS EXCEPTIONAL!

It doesn't get much better than this! Information and music I want all the time anytime...your desire to please your listeners simply enhances the total Pandora experience...
Thanks people for being that place where I can sing of with joy of the Duke Ellington tune "I Love You Madly" Pandora is magical...Thank you from my heart.
Edna

Awsome Awsome Awsome site. Big props!

Thanks Pandora, for enabling me to visit people with shitty music tastes again. I hadn't seen my mom in 10 years.

this is the best station i have ever had,, thanks gary

UNBELIEVABLE!!!
You guys made my day!
Just moved to US from Israel and was so disappointed by the music choices that radio has..
until recently I've discoverded PANDORA!!
Thanks a lot, I love you! Tiesto rocks!
Irit

Let's hope that #4 on the list is
"Get bought out by Apple and integrated into iTunes"

Or failing that, slurp in a user's my "iTunes Music Library.xml" and get access to the hundres of songs that I've already rated!!

holy sh!t ... this is fantastic
THANK YOU , THANK YOU :)

thnx a million for the great music u play to good great job great going keep it up u rock
love
desmond

The Backstage feature is a great feature, but lacking one information very valuabe for music diggers : the label who signed the artist/album. This info if sometimes more valuable than the "similar to" in term of sonority analysis.

hear these songs from China
my world becomes larger and larger~~thx you guys' amazing ideas ~

你们真的太棒了
^_^

A music lover's paradise!!! Nice Work

Wow...i mean, just WOW!!! A friend told me about this site, and I figured I'd give it a shot. It's a great way to find new music that matches my tastes (which are very complex). The best part is, you guys have not only mainstream, but also indie and even other languages! I was so shocked that you recognized Gackt and Utada Hikaru that I had to smack myself to see if I was awake (still have bruises to prove it).

In other words, you guys are wonderful. If you have a section where we can donate money or time to, I would be happy to contribute to your amazing idea.

UNBELIEVABLE. In the course of 3 days, I have already discovered 15-20 new artists that are right up my alley that I probably would have never heard without Pandora. Thanks a million for providing such a great service. The website GUI is extremely snazzy as well.

Keep up the good work!

As one person on here put it " This what the net is supposed to SPawn". This is a great sight to expose yourself to artists you normally haven't heard of . Intern it should reflect in more cd's being purchased.... Excellent site !!!!!
Great change of pace from main stream repetative radio. Thank You

Great, impressive , amazing.

As one other user put it "this is all i demand from web" - i like the idea of adding lyrics as well. The background info completes the package. An Addition to have a link to the artists homepage / and Concerts would fit nicely as wel. Pandora could become a one-stop-source for music and information on the web.

Go on maties!

Inacredetavel: Unbelievable
irreal:Unreal
incrayable: Incredible
Three languages dont say enough about this music experience. I was a music lover before, now I am strung out. My 500 cd collection doesn't hold flame to this musical stream. I tell everyone about Pandora like she's a new lover. Jimi Hendrix asked in a song are you experienced? Well..I am with Pandora

A friend turned me on to this site and friend turned him on. I'm going to play it forward. U guys have created the new example on how music sites should be.

pandora is just great!!

since i have discovered it, my iTunes has the most boring job in the world...

thank you very much!

I will never listen to regular top 40 pop rock radio again. Pandora is Fabulous!

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!! THIS IS THE BEST FREE ON-LINE MUSIC I HAVE COME ACROSS-EVER!!!! I LOVE YA'LL AND KEEP ROCKIN!!!!

I live in New Jersey. I got a email from an old homeboy now living in the Seattle area. Talkin about play it forward. He said, spread the joy, spread the luv, spread the musical experience. Theres a new box in computer box and its a musical box called Pandora. I pluged in, I listened, I felts chills up and down my spine. WOW! Wholly mutha where have yu been all my life! I was into the yahoo music stream, and into msn music for awhile. But they got goofy and wet on me. Pandora is open 24 7 in my crib. I got a station I can make babies 2. I got email address's up the ying yang and I'm going play it forward and terrorize all my clients and homeys with this link like my old home boy said Roland out there in the west said theres new box in town and her name is Pandora. Play that badass music techheads.
Peace out
B for Bishop

You guys got what I always needed, something to reminisce to.

Keep up the good work!!!

i really like the songs you play on my radio it is exactly what i want you guys rock

this website is more than amazing.I'm an artist myself, so I just got logged in today, might try out more over this site. its a whole different platform. I' love to listen to y'all.. Big up n much respect :-)

I now reccomend Pandora every time any music is ever mentioned.

for future reference GOSPPLE means CHURCH MUSIC not pretty ricky not akon not knon and pressing the guide button did not work because you insist that its based on what i like your right when the station is HIPHOP. PAY ATTENTION TO THE STATOIN YOU IDIOTS!!!!!!!

Alright I'm hip to tis play it forward stuff.
My boy in the west started dis in da west and then it went to the east. Then to South east, now south west. The Lonestar State TX baby! Ya no I bought this PC for reason only to fill up my hard drive with music. Now I been hit with a chain link letter called Pandora. Oh shit (oops can I say that?)
You got ta be kiddin me. Old School, new school, I been schooled. You guys went to school. There is so music in here I never ever, ever heard of.
I my ears have been reinrich with music. So far there seems to be no limit to the music. You need to find some Black Ivory and load that up. Thats some serious old school. You would make this old fool happy. y'all got it goin and flowin i am serious this is PHAT! I'm going to spread da word like those jahovah witness people do. But I'm goin to do it with music. U hear me? Pandora, Pandora, the box has bin opened and I'm hooked on her like a crack head. Play forward huh? You know it!

Peace out

Thank you for the music. I've heard songs pop up on here that I had completely forgotten about. Keep up the good work. This is what radio should be.

Thank you for this. its something absolutely nessessary for people that dont particularly like what they play on local radio stations. Id pay for this well before satillite radio.

I like all kind of music

Oh my gosh, I don't know how to properly express the feelings of great joy that I am personally experiencing right now as a direct effect of your amazing musical system. Thank you so very much for this, and for so much more. I hope that this idea prospers exponentially, music is life!

Muy bien !!! Los felicito por el excelente trabajo que estan haciendo. Sigan asi !!!

YOU ROCK!
I've been waiting for something like that and you guys made it so good!
thanks a lot!

Awesome! Finally, my stations, my way, just how I want it! I have told all my friends to open "Pandora's" box! Thanks for this invaluable, I-can't-believe-I-ever-lived-without-this, musical feast!

Pandora Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

- WOW -

way da go guys!

Really really great site! almost unbelievable.

THANK YOu!

omg! this is so awesome! you guys did a great job!

I heard about Pandora's Box on WJR radio from Michigan. This is WONDERFUL, I can listen to music I love while I am on the computer!! I am telling (emailing) all my friends. This is great. Keep up the good work. The advertisements are not that bad. Hope you get some classical too. It is almost an addiction with me!
Anne

You guys are soooo brilliant! i pracitly LIVE in this site! =)
Thank you very much for all the work you've put out on this project - if you were recruiting on Israel i'd have joined for free =)

This is great! U are Music-wizzards.

výborne páni, skvelý playlist. ako keby ma poznalo ;)

what an idea... whoever thought this website up must have been a genius!! and to see those options youhave ... free or no ads-paid!! geniuses man!! i discovered the lost legends of surf guitar and laika and the cosmonauts, and i'm bowled over... for a guy like me from india...this is a life saver man!!

quiero musica buena

I am in fascination by your site.

I discoverd all what I needed about American and European English language music.

I want to beg you for somethying! PLEASE if you have finances and energy do include in your list ITALIAN music.

The Italian Divas - Mina, Milva, Marcella Bella, Ornella Vanoni, Anna Oxa and Alice are outstanding. I also like very much Fausto Leali and Zucchero.

For the moment you only have Eros Ramazotti and he sings in Spanish.

You will have a great admiration from European fans if you include in your archives as well at least the first ten songs of the Eurovision competition or San Remo festival.

With real admiration yours
Flower

\m/ Rock On! \m/

This radio station is really the greatest thing I've ever seen and listened. I'm permitted to listen to my favorite songs and artists.

THAT'S GREAT! SIMPLY THE BEST ON-LINE RADIO STATION

This is great! I've found loads of new bands to get in to, and I've heard lots of great music. Wicked!

YOU GUYS ROCK!!! I RECOMMENDED THIS SITE TO ALL MY FRIENDS

Thank you. Just ...thank you for this.

this is awesome! yall are good at this, i hope it expands BIG time. good luck, im definately going to use it, i found at least 3 new bands to start listening to. Thank you!

If I could marry a Music Genome Project, I would marry Pandora. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making my work day not suck.

this site is a really cool site because there is unlimited radio for free, every one in my computer class uses it

Wow, seriously. This is the coolest thing to happen, ever. I am always looking for new music, and it's hard to find with ClearChannel dominated radio. I'd say about 85-90% of the songs on my playlists get thumbs up! And this has given me something great and more productive than random games to do during the 9-5 at work!

I found out about you guys just recently and have since told just about everyone I know, inlcuding my parents who love it.

I think you guys, and i odn't make claims like this lightly, have created the best website since skype. An exceptional idea which has been brilliantly executed.

Genuinely, thank you.

Richard
in London

your page is awesome, i live in colombia and im very happy with this great genome project.i hear metal, bands like skid row,dokken,ratt,megadeth,ect. but i hear black metal too and i can't find a band called ninnghizhidda.can you hepl me???please. hope your answer...bye and million thanks....

Hey,

I'm here form Antigua an i love this freaking site i can listen to any and every kind of music this shit is addicting........

Island Girl

I love it! You have done a fabulous job. Thanks for looking out for the little people! LOL!

inf******credible!

The product is brilliant, and your move to partner with SqueezeBox even more so. Rock on!

How 'bout a slider for "loose" vs "strict" matches?

I was also very pleased to see that you chose not to use "clean" versions of songs. I don't need the religious right censoring my music listening experience to please their personal SkyWizard.

Would also like to see a list of definitions for all the descriptions you use. So I can learn what you mean by "extensive vamping".

Also, what's to keep a competitor from running a script to just vacuum the classifications you've spent a lot of time applying?

The bookmark feature is crucial too, because I'll likely buy the full albums from some of the artists you dish up for me.

- th0rn

You folks are the Sh#*!!! I love hearing both songs that I've never heard before, and songs i love, but forgot about 'cuz it's been sooo long. I do agree with there being an option to move a song to another station if I like it but it might not fit with the station that is playing.
Also, how can I support you folks so you can keep on doing what you're doing? I mean, I have no problem with the ads, but I also would like to send you the sign-up cash. However, I don't want to deprive you of the revenue from the ads. You know, kind of NPRish.

Incredible. I can't imagine the time that had go into creating this...I have pretty eclectic music taste (at least on the surface) and this does a great job at finding the music i like.

I love what you guys are doing but the kind of music I love you don't seem to have the artise.I love a lot of jamaican music.keep pu the good work anyway.

Finding Pandora is the best thing that has happened to me on the internet, in months.

Great Work!!!! Every song I hear on my stations are exactly what I have been looking for, and can't find anywhere else.

It would be nice if there were a link to lyrics in your Backstage section.

Other than this, great work!

Jim

you guys rock!

This is the best radio station I have ever listened to. It makes being at work much more enjoyable.

pandora is like the great slurpies at seven eleven..

i get BRAIN FREEEZES!!! THIS SITE IS THE BEST!!

I like it - mostly, but it seems to me the music has a bias for the newest releases, and my music tastes all lean towards the oldies.

I like it mostly but here's my beef. I don't understand how when I have a "radio" list for women singers, Pandora keeps playing men singers. That's kind of an elemental choice of music tastes, isn't it? And on my wishes for acoustic, folk, oldies and the like, Pandora keeps trying to throw in some twangy country. Yuck. But as I said, I mostly like it.

pandora till hell freezes over!

roy batty, Italy

Tank you for this wonderful site and service! Why did it take so long to discover it, now I just can´t live without it.

sofia

I just happened to find you guys quite by accident. Pandora Radio is awesome. Thank you. If at all possible, maybe you could find some Native American music for me. Here are some examples of what I would love to hear. THA TRIBE, NORTHERN CREE SINGERS, and BLACK LODGE SINGERS to name a few. Once again, thank you for an awesome Internet radio station alternative. Peace

I just happened to find you guys quite by accident. Pandora Radio is awesome. Thank you. If at all possible, maybe you could find some Native American music for me. Here are some examples of what I would love to hear. THA TRIBE, NORTHERN CREE SINGERS, and BLACK LODGE SINGERS to name a few. Once again, thank you for an awesome Internet radio station alternative. Peace

Thank you for to do better to stay 8 or 9 hours in my job, and to help me to discover new musicians and to remember
some forgotten.

One suggestion, it's possible to add soundtracks?

Thank you again (and sorry for my english :-))

Paloma

I hate you. I've bought 4 CDs in ten days, all discovered along the day on your station. You know guys I can't afford 4 CD per month all the year ??? You're goin to ruin me !!!

You're the best - ever, and forever. Pandora is totallly incredible.

Peace,

Olivier

I've discover so many new bands! Amazing! And I bought some of these CD's bands!

Thanks a lot!

trully an awesome piece of software i work in a