Spent a long time with a wonderfully engaged Phoenicians at the ASU campus. I think we were there almost 4 hours.

Thanks to Molly for keeping such great notes. Highlights:

1. More control (cockpit). This would probably be used by the die-hards mostly.
2. More options on the rating scale:
It Rocked
Pretty Cool
Ho Hum
Thanks for Playing

3. Building your own searchable tags (for things like motivational, inspirational, yoga music, etc.). This was a big one - people really want to start inputting info and shaping the available data.

4. Point to other podcast content (College/University lectures).

And many, many more great ideas.

Headed out bright and early for Denver...

Tim (Founder)

Pleased to hear you enjoyed your trip to Phoenix. You should visit again, especially this time of year. It's perfection!

I have to say as time passes I'm wanting some type of tag system more and more. The two stations I listen to the most are titled 'Aggro' and 'Mello', but it can be tough sorting through recommendations to find new music to thumb-up. It's recommending other music I end up enjoying, but often the recommendations have no place in the themed station I'm trying to build, so I end up sending tons of songs to other stations and not having as much as I'd like in the themed ones. (And I end up seeding artists/songs into them.)

Absoloutely more rating options; there are some tracks that I am almost sure about, but dont want to rate it simply yes or no.

Also, the tags is a great idea. I would like to have more input.

In the area of more tagging, I'm thinking I miss something that would let us indicate we like everything in the song BUT a certain thing (person's voice). There are plenty of songs I would love to continue to hear, but the voice doesn't appeal, or some instrumental aspect that is unique to either that song or that artist. Also would love to have a place to say "Give me more from this artist" - not just "play more like it" which could invite more with similar sonic qualities but not necessarily from that artist. We all know some albums have 1 great song and the rest are so-so. But, technically, I can see that the system is really stacked toward characteristics regardless of whom the artist is - guess it has to be that way to some degree... Thanks for building this, it's awesome.

hey,
how come hawaii isnt on the map?
i know most of the music hear is crappy hawaiian stuff but oahu and maui have some good bands

This is the best radio on the net.I love yoy guy!s

Please let me know when the next berkeley event happens

I think this is a great station. Everybody has different tastes in music; Pandora allows me to listen to what i like without having to wait through 10 other songs i don't have any interest in listening to, only to get to the 11th i like and then go through 10 others i really dislike. It was a great idea guys; keep up the good work !!
Bianca

Hey,
this is a great station and the best radio on the net!!!
How can I listen it again in Germany????
Please let me know!!!
Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for music I like, mixed when I want and the introduction of artists that sing my type of music that I have never heard before. I love Pandora and am telling all of my friends. Keep up the good work. I also enjoy your musical podcasts.

Can't get enough of big band music, Liberaci, and some of the classics like Wagner, Liest, and so on. Also, the boys from the 30 and 40's like hank williams, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Sons of the pioneers etc. But, the one thing that kills me is, I can;t go to another website for business etc. without losing my music. How or Why can't we fix that. I use to listen to Launch music and there was no problem going from one website to another without losting the music. Come on you guys can do it. Come up with something brilliant. Rich

I so far have no comment,but simply loving this station and enjoying it to the fullest.Good work.

Hey I just want to say this is the best thing ever. I think it is such a great tool. I am a full time student at ASU. I love using these features especially for studying purposes. Non stop music and it associates to understand your listing purposes. Just thought I would post and make a comment about how much I love it.

I'd just like to say that I have really started enjoying Pandora. I signed up a while ago, and never came back to using the service. While searching through my bookmarks, I found the site again, and am now hooked. Great idea, and great offering! Thanks for this service!

Sergio Mendes plays Cinnamon And Cloves, which I originally tried to play on your station, but you did not have it. Why not? You have plenty of other bossa nova and similar songs. I really like Brazilian music very much and thank you for whatever you put on ( but not me ). Gracias, man.

My husband is Steve McCarty (wrote with STEVE MILLER Fly Like an Eagle, Wild Mountain Honey, etc.} and was in the band. He just won the Career Achievement Award for LAMusic FAME Awards. He will be releasing the first CD since those days in the next few months. Is there a way to get previewed on the site? There is a lot of talent in Phoenix, so Al Bowman of Los Angeles Music Awards and FAME Awards has just moved here. Are you going to come back here?

Great idea however it needs to compatible with the dominant music player - ITunes. All my music goes through ITunes; IR, Purchased Music and my uploaded CD's.
We need to hear streaming through ITunes.
TX

I've Fallen love with PANDORA.

RE: Posted by: Sharon at August 18, 2007 10:30 AM

Use the tabs in IE 7or later. Works like a charm. I listen to Pandora and do a lot of other Web/Internet work and listen.
Stevn

cannot create a "classical guitar" station?
cannot find any Julian Bream?

Hey, so you asked to make a list of cool bands in my area. Well, i went through and noticed you don't have any comfort for change... if you have never heard of them, you can check out their music on myspace... www.myspace.com/comfortforchange they are a truly amazing band, and they deserve to be put on the music genome project.

along with a few other decent acts,

vayden www.myspace.com/vaydenmusic
digital summer www.myspace.com/digitalsummer
32 leaves www.myspace.com/32leaves
onesidezero www.myspace.com/onesidezero
ghostlife www.myspace.com/ghostlife
dais www.myspace.com/daisaz
giantkiller www.myspace.com/giantkiller

i guess that's all.

by the way, i love pandora. alot. i listen to it everyday. EVERYDAY. i'm a writer, and music helps me concentrate on my book. so yah. always listening.
thanks for creating it. seriously.
j-sin

@Tom E--much to the confusion of some listeners, our classical collection can only be searched by composer or the title of the piece. You can't search by performer as of yet. Try entering the names of some Villa-Lobos or Bach pieces to start of a classical station.

@Jason Miranda--thanks for these recommendations. My band played with Comfort for Change in Prescott last Fall! Too funny...

OK all, happy Wednesday and be well...

-A

So then you know how amazing they are. i love that band. SO very much. that's why i'm trying to push for them to be put on here. they are good friends of mine, and their talent should not go unnoticed. so yah.
does that mean you're going to add them? i'm sure if you contact them, they would be more than happy to share their music. i don't know how it all works or what not... but yah. i would love to get a little comfort in the mix. ya know?
thanks. so much...
also check out Sent by Ravens. www.myspace.com/sentbyravens
they are awesome too. love that band. they arn't from here, but they're really good.
later bro.
j-sin
p.s. what's your bands name? i might have seen you when i saw comfort for change. i haven't missed a show for like two years. except the ones that were in New mexico and Cali of course.

I'm in Tucson Arizona,
I love this station because i can listen to the real old country music and country stars from 50's 60's and 70's.
What a great station.
keep playing them.

Frank