Also pleased to have picked up a good collection of local CDs from musicians in attendance. They've been handed to the music genome team.

If anyone has any pictures from the evening - I"d love to post em... send them over.

Tom, thanks for the post on The Practice Room, and to friends at the Digital Media Alliance. Love the online, indie network.

And Tim, thanks for this one too: http://timvansant.com/otoh/

Coming back to Florida in a few months for the Winter Music Festival in Miami. Should be fun.

Cheers. Tim (Founder)

I was emailed this address to listen and I was really pleased. This so enjoyable to listen to because I'm introduced to a lot of artist that I would have never experienced but yet they are exactly what I want to hear plus I get to listen to my favorites. I think you guys are outstanding and I have switched from listening to my saved tunes on iTunes to listening to you all day at work.

Hi!
I'm a Chilean guy that enjoy your great Pandora Radio.
It's really the best thing in the web.
I hope you still improving, and i still enjoying.
Thank a lot

Well, I just read Jacks comment and I think I will go a little further...this is craZzy brilliant!!! Love it!! I live in the Bay Area and I had heard-through-the-grapevine type of thing about the Music Genome Project. I thought - yea, that's a really great concept, I hope it works out...so fast forward a bit and (randomly) I stumble on Pandora while web searcher-ing (for any music at that point) O.K. - I'm pretty hard to impress but WOW! I don't think I have to go searcher-ing any more...(ps-for kicks, I hooked my mother up with a station and she is having a ball...the only downside is she wishes you ran a match-making service and would find me a husband...thanks a lot guys)

Hey Tim,
Come to Santa Fe, New Mexico and hear this wonderful singer-songerwriter named Lisa Carman.
(I noticed that Santa Fe isn't on your trip)
She's one of many great artists here but I think she's great. I back other artists as a bass player at times but I'm really impressed with her music and would love her music to be in the Genome Project.
her website is:
lisajcarman.com
Happy Trails!
Cris Phillips

you guys need to come to Nebraska....I would love to meet you and hear about this project of yours

I plan to use this site a lot, its great. I think you should save the artists that people like, or give the thumbs up to or something, to their account so that they can come back later and know what albumn to buy. also, you dont know slowreader, check them out, they're fucking wonderful. thank you so much, good by.
jeff

I am thinking that a more complex rating system (maybe a 5-point scale) instead of the current "like it/ don't like it" scale might work a lot better. Sometimes, I like an artist a lot, somtimes I sort of like them, etc, but there's no way to express strength of preference. Otherwise, I love Pandora!

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!
Best "Radio" concept, and better radio than in my car??? Can you package it to go please. This will spread like wild fire on a hot summer day, grats!

So many people will be opened to new music that they would have never the experience in this life. Keeping on Listening, Life Tunes.

Carrie's Imagination

Can one select an artist, i.e. Wilco, and have only their music played as opposed to similar style type music?

I absolutely cant say enough good things about Pandora, so I will mention the only thing I dont like... I wish I could block an artist altogether, if I dont like one fleetwood mac song, I dont want to hear any more, and I certainly dont want to hear Lindsay Buckingham or Christine McVie... anyway can you tell what came up on my playlist that made me go what? I absolutely love the service, and have it as my start up page on every computer that I have to interact with at school, home and work. Keep up the fabulous work, and thank you thank you, thank you!

And still no one bothering to make the player work with the latest version of Flash (9)...
Update your flash version, and you can no longer use Pandora. Oh joy!
:(

Hi 345,

Pandora works fine in all our tests with Flash 9 (Mac, Win in IE, Firefox, Safari and Camino). Can you tell me a bit more about the problems you are having?

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

Well well and hello to all of you(all the way from South Africa)thanks for all the LOVELY MUSIC.Can we have some country rock....PLEASE.Keep up the good work

nice try guys, but nobody sounds like Frank Zappa

Hi, folks!

When are you come to Miami? We don't bite!
Now seriously. We want to see you around here.

Un abrazo

I've written another post about the Orlando Town Hall meeting at http://timvansant.com/otoh/

Thanks again for a great time!

~Tim

WOW! I read about your site in Reader's Digest and now listen to Pandora every day! Thanks!

One tiny request - it would be great to have more buying options besides iTunes and Amazon -- the RealPlayer Music Store, for example. I also agree with the person that suggested a more granular scale of like/dislike. Keep up the good work!

So far, Pandor is AWESOME! I am quickly loving this radio :D

Feature Request: Bigger Play, Pause & Skip Buttons. Make them easy for me to click.

Read about U in USA Weekend, checked U out and am enjoying U.
MARKETING IDEA!!!!! I am marketing manager for the touring stage play "The Life of Marvin Gaye". We start on Sept 5-6, 2006 in Montgomery, AL and will play cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, as well as the smaller cities like Montgomery and Jackson, MS. The tour is scheduled to run until the end of 2007. Is this something that U would like to be involved with?
Please give it some thought.

nice try guys!
keep on improving to make this project success!
anyway, hope Pandora could find more and more unknown and low profile bands under the scenes.
Who knows,that someday Pandora could create something great better than Yahoo Music Launch :)
All the best Pandora and staff!!! Love this site!!!

1. Like the concept but not sure what differentiates from other music services(Rhapsody comes to mind) which also allow user defined radio stations based on one or more artists and then play music by similar artists. Perhaps marketing could address what sets Pandora apart?

2. Would like to be able to fine tune the Pandora selections by give weights to the various attributes captured about an artist or a song. For example I have tried to set up a radio station comprising British Pop artists from 1980 onwards. No matter which artists I select, Pandora insist on adding non-British artists. So if for example, country of origin or artist' decade were two of the attributes captured by Pandora and I could tell Pandora to give these attributes additional weight, I could better tailor the decisions made by Pandora.

3. I saw you are looking for a music analyst specializing in German music. Sehr gut! I am a fan of German rock (Kraftwerk, Amon Duul, Neu! etc.) and am planning on using Pandora to expand my horizons. I asked Pandora to set up a station based on the music of F.S.K. (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle) but it couldn't find this artist, so your new analyst has their first assignment!

i tried searching for an artist named "Lea Salonga", and i was somehow disappointed for not having her included in your artists collection. she may be an unknown(?) but she made the Philippines proud by winning the TONY for her portrayal of Kim in Miss Saigon, she also sang the theme song in disney's Mulan. she's a great singer, hope you guys take time to listen to her music. your Genome Project is great, keep up the good work...

You were featured in Time Magazine as one of the top 50 websites of the year. ^_^

I love this concept , how great this would be for the car radio , worth paying for better than sirus.

I agree with the 5 point rating system for songs that you like would be better.

Just discovered your site from an article in the newspaper supplement, and tried it out. This is a very clever program, already heard an artist I was not familiar with. It is also one of the best set up sites I have seen, very easy to use. Good job.

Rich

Hi And congrats on a well thought out concept and site...
Its a great piece of work that would seem to have an awesome potential..
I`m a musician and have ..for years toyed with the concept of a database to correlate for particular musical tastes..it started with the familiar -paying $15 for a CD and liking only a song..if I had a few more programming skills I`d probably apply for a job because I find it intriguing
My perfect future interface might have a "too much" dialogue that came with the thumbs down button with however many factors/qualities
to choose from ..such as say .."too many notes" or "too quiet" "too busy" "too dark" "too light" "too much country" "too much rock" etc..you probably get the idea by now ...If you told me it was too complex a dialogue to incorporate I wouldn`t be surprised but perhaps you could limit the factors to say 20...
Anyhow feel free to tell me its a stupid idea if you really think so..
and thanks for the site and music
phil barry

i just realised, that you guys deserves some praise for your good work. as a user, you dont always think about thanking the producers for making a really great website/software/whatever the subject is. so i would just like to thank you guys. i try to click at the ads as often as i can, so i can give just a little bit back.

Fantastic new way to spend my day--listening to new music that I will learn to love.

I am a "live" music nut. It would be great to hear only live music on my station(s).

Any way to have that happen?

love it! a great way to catch up on latest south texas music while i'm stuck here in tennessee. thanks for the fun.
Bob Hasselle
i.a.t.s.e.
local 140

I would really like to be able to place an emphasis on some of the genomes. I find that sometimes adding a new song takes the music in directions other that I was looking to go. While I appreciate the idea of widening my palette of musical taste, I am also on a journey of band/artist discovery in my long favored genre.

hiii this a new user and even thought this doesn't have to do with the blog above (even thought it's great you guys have meetings to improve this website) i just want to let you know that you have literally save my life! this website is just great, it's a music lover's dream come true! ive been hooked since the first day i tried it (2 days ago) i go hrre daily and ive discover a couple good indie new bands! keep up the good work! and i'm amazed at the variety here...you can find eveyrthing!
and i love the fact it's free and easy to use.you can't make life easier.
thank you so much!

Read an article in USA Weekend magazine this weekend and found Pandora. I have well over 10,000 CDs. Pandora is easy to operate immediately and run behind other windows when I work. And it is a joy to find other artists, albums, songs that are of interest. I've turned on many friends and posted info re Pandora on some important web sites. Good luck.

Read an article in USA Weekend magazine this weekend and found Pandora. I have well over 10,000 CDs. Pandora is easy to operate immediately and run behind other windows when I work. And it is a joy to find other artists, albums, songs that are of interest. I've turned on many friends and posted info re Pandora on some important web sites. A very interesting concerpt. Much better than Rhapsody beacuse at this point there is free access, If you can keep the free access, the web site should support the adds. Good luck.

Stupendous effort, everyone! Definitely a timely idea, with a sweet website to match.

However, it has a long way to go before I will be raving about it to anyone.

First, I agree absolutely that it should feature MANY, MANY more artists. I think your roster is just too small to be able to match effectively. And I think your focus should be on more lower profile, underground, and/or lesser-known artists. I don't want to hear music I already know - I want to hear NEW music!

Second, I 100% agree that more musical taste direction is necessary. One must be able to pinpoint exactly which features of the artist's music they like and, ideally, mix n' match with any other styles, genres, moods, qualities, etc. to create the ULTIMATE, truly personal stations.

Thanks guys.

As cliche as this is going to sound, I literally "Stumbled" upon your website. By using the "Stumble" net surfing download I came across your site. thank you so much. I'm listening to Sinatra right now and it's amazing that song after song is a favorite. Thank you Tim.

Hey, Has Anybody Created A Station Made Exclusively From Cover Songs? What Results Has THAT Yielded? I Was Just Curious As To What Playlist Pandora Would Generate Since The Original Tracks Would Already Have Lots Of Street Cred, And Yet The Twists Would Really Add A Little Sumthin Sumthin, Know What I Mean Vern? If Anybody's Tried, Post The Prelims Here. Thanks!

I have been listening into Pandora for almost a year now, it is honestly the best music site I have ever found. It makes my days at the office go a little faster and a lot more fun.

You all do GREAT work! Can't wait to see what else Pandora brings to the internet world and music scene!

I LOVE this site my daughters turned me on to it and I have been hooked ever since. I have a big mouth so I have been telling everyone I know to listen. I am a business owner and I would like to know if I could have some info to pass around at some up coming events I am having. I love music and it is a part of my business, I think more people should know about Pandora. Keep up the good work, I listen 24 hrs a day, at work and at home.

Deltra Perryman

My Pandora experience has gotten even better this week somehow. It's suddenly playing a much wider range of material. Maybe it's coincidence or my imagination, but I just wanted to say that I'm loving this more and more all the time. I can't thank you enough.

Scott

I Love Music and I Love Pandora!
I use to listen to I-Tunes, BUT Pandora is Better.
Such a Great way to discover new music. I have already
found some new Artist I like and I plan to buy their music.
I have always looked for new Artist but this is by far the
Best way to discover new music. I Love it!
Thanks For The Great Idea...I-Tunes watch out cause
Pandora is taking over!
sincerely,
Robert

I just wanted to say how great the mgp/Pandora is, it's helped me discover hundreds of new bands and artists. A really great idea, thanks.

Hey Tim,
This station is the sweet gideon. You are, essentially, putting what people want to hear right in their laps in the most direct way possible. One thing that I think is great is how quickly one can access great music on their first visit, no nonsense. Honestly i think you are working with one of the best vehicles for promoting music. Thanks so much.

I live in Maryland between Washington DC and Baltimore. Are you coming in the area? I would love to attend one of your meetings. I play music with a group of guys, collectively named Anapra, and we would love to participate in and promote this project, an act much more readily undertaken if we were able to put some of our own music on there *wink wink*. How would I go about sending you music?

Thanks for your artistic integrity and passion to pursue excellence on your work.

I'm thrilled with Pandora - I listen most of the day at work.
I don't think that a scaled preference would benefit (and yes, I have at times wanted to shout I LOVE that Song!) I have a hard enough time just giving a thumbs up/down. My advice is to K.I.S.S.
Much appreciated new music and Kudos to all of you involved in producing it :)
Thanks!

hey, i just found your site at work a few days ago, and it's pretty good. Great spread of genres. i mean, they've got good metal, jazz, and alternative. but do you think you could add some of the better classical music stuff like Rachmaninov? i love his piano concertos.

hey its well, jeremy. i was just contiplating the idea of possibly providing a section of radio that would allow us as listeners to enjoy the songs that we already selected as the songs we like. meaning compile the songs already listened to into a good pile and discard the ones we dont like to a memory in attempt to not hear it again. that was redundant i know but hopefully u get my drift and if u already ironed out this quagmire then i apologize. but, i love this program keep it up. my discovery lies in pandora. cheers!!!
jer

Hi all lovers of good music.
I only see blogs of the USA.
I am from old Europe.
Is there an blog for the jazz fans in Europe??

My friends introduced this site for me,and i want to say it's very nice.thanks guys.keep up.

Pandora is so fantastic. Why doesn't it conquer the world?

Just checked out your entry on Lee Scratch Perry. Brilliant. He's mad but a genius. Also just put you on my RSS feeds.

I think it would be really neat if you could take a song that is playing and move it to another station. For example, I have one station with is called "so very sappy" and it has sad songs or one which are really slow. if one of those types of songs came on another one of my stations, I would love to move it over to my "so very sappy"...
How could would that be?
Just a thought though...
tashamonster

Jeff, click on the down arrow next to the station containing songs you're interested in buying, and choose "Edit this station" on the popup menu. There you'll see songs that you've entered as well as given thumbs-up and -down to.

I think a three-point scale should be implemented for rating songs. Love, Like, and Don't like.

Best,
Tsee

I have been requesting the song " The Last Time I Saw Her " by Glen Campbell. Is there a reason why it has yet to be played on my station?

great concept, this was recommended to me by my best friend. I love that I can enjoy english and spanish music.

I am enjoying the sight! I mainly listen to it at work, my oly concern is there are some songs that are not work material because of the language. Is there a button that I can use for my work station to filter this kind of music?

What about customized skins?, maybe it could be great that anybody using pandora can create a skin set on flash an send it to you, later it could be a menu where you can choose your favorite skin.

Hi I'm Johanne. I am 17 and i live in germany. My cousin showed me your side and i love it. I learn much about music and music styles. so i am happy and i hope i'll find more new (for me unknown) artists and songs.

thank you for this experiance..
and more tanks for no annoying advertising

Hanne (and sorry for mistakes..)

Two things:
1. I LOVE PANDORA!! Im a huge music fan, but was only introduced to rock and metal about two years ago, and this site has helped me find new artists I enjoy listening to.
2. Just a suggestion, can u add something to the radio that shows how much time the song is and how much time remains? I think I have a slight OCD because this bothers me a lot, but wont keep me from listening. Thanks!

I think this Pandora is the coolest f'in thing since the invention of ice cream! I'm HOOKED. Thank You!

Hi Hanne,

If you look VERY closely at the tuner slide displaying the information for the currently-playing song, you can see a teeny tiny little progress bar at the bottom of the album art.

This teeny tiny progress bar gives you a visual indication of how much of the song has played, and how much remains.

Hope this helps your OCD!

Thanks for listening!

Seana

I really like the service it has been great. But I have to ask who thought "Air Attack over Kabul Airfield" by James Whithead should classify as "New Age" It just isn't quite the right fit for relaxation music. If I ever start a military theme station I'll consider it. :)

my Tom Waits radio is such a beauty. you managed to offer me such a collection of songs so good that i only can but make myself comfortable close my eyes e listen to them with a smile of happiness in my face. that't what you do for me. no doubt you have such a good taste in choosing the songs. and the lyrics are as well good.
i thank you for all this.
love you

Excellent idea this project is! I was so happy to find Pandora... But, why can't you suggest a song and have it actually played, instead of something similiar? And, if you type in an artist's name, can it play only that artist's songs?? That would make things even better!!!!!
Please respond.
Laura

the music i have been listening to from your website has been great. I can listen to my favorites , some of whom I did not know about. I have recommendig it to some of my friends, who also find it superb.

i would just like to say that the music genome project just saved my life because my dad decided that he would go and delete all of my music off our computer. I had just heard about pandora.com from one of my friends and it has been a life saver for me. I think that there should be a way to also have the option of listening to songs with similar lyrics of the song that you want, so if that is not a huge amount of work that would be awesome then people could also explore music outside of some of their favorite genres just cause they like the lyrics. Thank you all so much. Landon W.

hey this site really rocks
im a dj from hannover and i used to do alot of vinyls but now i bought stantons final scratch 2.0 and you will probably be wondering why i am telling you all this. thepoint i am getting at is that i need mp3s mostly house, techno and electro would it be possible for you to send the music from these genres?? do you get the newest releases from where?? im new with this mp3 biz please write back

Pandora has been the backdrop to my working day since I followed up on a recommendation a couple of weeks ago. My station is really getting to know me now, it plays me so much stuff I already like and I get some great leads for new bands to explore.

I am a musician myself and I really enjoy songs using particular cadences, and devices such as keeping a constant bass note and using lots of inversions ... Genesis and Yes did a lot of that. Is there any scope for adding classifications like that to the genome?

I read also that you use a greater range of attributes when cataloguing jazz and Latin music than for other forms. Do you/could you also extend the range for progressive music, which is on the whole a lot more complex than more mainstream rock?

Don't stop the rockin' guys ... go Pandora!

- Ian.

Tim,
Thanks for a wonderful evening in Orlando. My wife and I atended, and learned a lot about what I consider to be one of the best Web sites around; it is my favorite site. I really enjoyed the history of Pandora, and am glad to see that you are still focused on keeping it a Web radio station. I have my whole office using pandora (it was real easy!), and now my wife has her office using it as well.

Thanks for all of your hard work, many of us are benefititng from it every day. I hope you return to Orlando soon, the Pandora word is spreading.

~Hank Lambert

Tim, This site is so great. There is a station for whatever you are in the mood to hear! So great. I recently tried to find a local music artist on your site by the name of Rupert Parker. He is a harpist and his music is fantastic. Any chance you can find any of his music to add to my station? His website is www.rupertparker.com
Thank you,
Linda

fort walton beach,fl. I recently discovered Pandora and am really enjoying it. I live on the island here while building a new condo on the mainland, This is a wonderful place to be with a large military population of young people,retires and everyday people,a place where Pandora could get a giant following if introduced properly.

I am in the Panhandle of FL (Panama City Beach) and would love to see a "round table" session happen for this part of FL listeners. There are a few places that support the local music arena and there is some great local places to eat as well. I just wanted to say thanks for such a great gift to the world, a.k.a. Pandora.

In Florida's Lake County (25 miles west of Orlando), try visiting the local bars with music in historic Eustis. On every "first Friday" of the month, they usually have 3 different local bands playing on the street and people walk the historic district and listen to different types of music. Tomorrow, Nov. 3d, it is Margaritaville night with a Jimmy Buffet tribute group plus others. If you come to this area, let me know and I can get more specifics.

I just started using your site yesterday and although I think it's wonderful. What I would like to have the ability to do is pick my station based on true music genre such as Gospel, Contemporary Gospel, Rock Gospel as so on. Your pick is by music or song and since the Gospel music I listen to is close to R&B I also get R&B music on my station, which is okay but I would like to be able to have the option if I wanted to listen to just that type of Gospel music, Gospel and R&B mixed or just R&B.

Please come to Miami!! :D

Hey for some great local talent come to Tampa. This being the artis fartsy town that is the are many small places with local artist that can do great covers as well as their own material.

Stop in and see us in Tampa
Mimi

I'm having a Pandora / flash 9 player problem in both IE7 and Firefox 2.0.0.1

I'm running under win xp sp2 fully patched. I have an intel pentium on an asus board, with an ATI AIW 9600 graphics card

Pandora works great when I downgrade to flash 7; but with flash 9 I get an error message telling me that I have to go to the settings and enable local storage. In fact, however, flash local storage IS enabled. At the 1MB level.

I love this concept.. it lets me hear so many artists I wouldn't otherwise listen to, be exposed to. just love it. I work to music and I love all the new influences. I am a painter and music is an integral part of the creative experience. come to Melbourne, Fl. the coast is much more laid back than Orlando,

I know the meetup was a while back, but Orlando/Central Florida has some awesome music ;)

You guys should check out Little Reggies, they do booking for local bands and such in and around Florida, really great, and have put together some great shows; with great bands and music.

Come again, we are 4th biggest State, and despite Mickey Mouse, there are people of taste living here.