As I mentioned in an email shortly after Pandora was closed for non-US users, is there any hope of getting a text-only version? I think that most people use Pandora not to listen to music but rather to get a taste of things they might like. Receiving a textual version of the result would be a good compromise for the time being, in that we would still be able to get a list of artists and songs similar to what we like. We would have to look them up on our own, but most of us did so anyway because the results were so good that we ended up -- or at least, I did -- buying songs by the referred artists, either from online stores such as the iTunes store, or from the dear old music shops.

Is there ever going to be a pandora that can be embedded 9nto blogger/myspace/shoutlife/xanga?

A textual version would definitely be fantastic, yes.

RADIO WAVES ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!

While I love the technology, my taste includes in a big way classical, particularly modern or contemporary classical composers. George Persona left radioio when they went to their now unusable format. Go snatch him up! He's awesome in the classical realm and knows contemporary classical better than anyone.

Hang in there HarryH - Classical music is coming to Pandora very soon

was on vacation and a music friend turned me on to the radio...being a album oriented dj in the 70's in a album rock station, i love the listening in quarter hours or half hours of a certain type of music ,then switching again as i like...will probably hook it up to my home system. you may tell from my logo that i am in my early 60s,,hope this continues to do well for everyone, the only thing i would like is a longer listening time to the radio i hook up too, such as a half hours of crosby stills nash young....thanks dwhitt in carolina

Guys! hope you can work these international licences very fast. We are going nuts in Australia without Pandora. Please bring back the colour to our lives! Fast, we're drowning in grey!

what a good thing this pandora thing is. i can t wait to get my own gospel and jazz cds i have made. truely a good thing we got right here. jessie gonzalezz from milford mass.....

As I'm reading through the lines an idea takes shape in me.

What about a "Pandora World Service"? I'm thinking of a single radio channel with a program structure that sticks to different music directons (e.g. an indie hour), also with newsbits from the blog and so on.

I like the pandora alots and i want to have my cell turn on and take the pandora with me all the time but how come only spint cell can do,why don't you let att and all phone company can do too?( i mean how can i do if am not spint customer?)

Thanks so much for what you do. I recognize the necessity of advocacy, please ask if any "domestic" advocacy would be helpful. Although I'm saddened that the rest of the world doesn't have access to your wonderful service, it's great to know that a few things can still be done here without the bullies shutting us down. C

Read about Pandora in a very interesting article in a recent (Oct 2007) Inc magazine I finally had time to read - now I am loving trying out Pandora and passing it on to my colleagues and friends. Definitely we'll be clicking on your advertisers Tim and good luck keeping things moving forward - great article in Inc magazine!
For the rest, the Inc article outlines a great story of Pandora as a business and the town hall meetings going on. The music genome concept is discussed in a fair bit of detail also.

I would like Pandora removed from your address list--I am not interested in receiving all the pictures constantly----REMOVE me please---

I really really want it back in the Netherlands! I love the concept and am still waiting for you to make it right!

The big idea, would be, of course, that eventually it would be up to the artists themselves to opt out of the "....publishing and recording industries...." system all together. Eventually they (the artists) will be comfortable knowing these industries are more than becoming irrelevent. It's just starting to happen, but it is happening. I know it's kind of an anarchist idea and will at some point regroup into a more stable system, but your very existence leads me to believe it could be true.

I remember when I first heard about this site several months ago, tried it, and was greatly disappointed when I found out I couldn't use it because I wasn't in the US. Since then, I've checked this site on an almost daily basis to see if this service would become available to Canada. It's been driving me nuts that I haven't been able to take advantage of this site to discover the music I really want to discover, but I can feel better knowing that some progress is being made. =D

Good luck to you in persevering to pry Pandora's "box" open again outside the US. I'm travelling a lot and I loved being able to listen to the stuff I like, be it in Europe, Asia or anywhere else in the world.

I wish the music industry and artist would see that a service like yours actually helps to generate additional song and album sales by exposing me to a lot more artists that suit my tastes than a classical radio station could ever offer.

Is this licensing problem also behind the low amount of international music on Pandora? I love the way it handles american music, but I can't seem to find any foreign artists.

Pandora is a wonderful resource tool for anyone seriously interested in music. I have found so much music through them it is not even funny. Every country should bring them on board.

I am blissfully listening to melodies that were lost ih some derilect corner of Detroit/Chicago.and a tear of joy runs down my wizzened cheek.Me,Hard Bastard ex Para.my ass.You are reaching me loud and clear in Dorset England,and I thank you wholeheartedly.....BIG.

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Tim

You have one of the best products I have ever seen! I want people to be able to listen to my musical tastes on my blog (my url above). Have you guys ever thought of having a software tuner... of our (your clients) music stations w/out ever leaving our page?

It would be free advertising for you and yet also a bridge builder for musically interested bloggers.

Also what can we do for you, I like Pandora so much that I would like to advertise for free, do you guys have buttons, badge, etc. for linking purposes?

What are your thoughts?

Oh good luck against the corporate machine... I hope everything works out for the rest of the world to experience the service that rocks.

Keep up the excellent work!

I love the options available. There is however, a need for some kind of an equalizer in order to modulate the sounds. Is there any way to do this?
This is, in my opinion, the only setback to Pandora.
Thanks for listening...

Tim,

This is just another hurdle to jump over in your long history of successes. I'm sure you are doing everything it takes to bring this amazing project to global heights. Thanks for the communication and your continued efforts to help music lovers everywhere get exactly what they want to hear when they want to hear it.

Btw, wonderful article in Inc. this month!

I agree with a text-only version... would be great!

I love Pandora radio and have been listening for about 2 months at work everyday. For the past 3 weeks or so Pandora plays just a few songs and then freezes on some established stations It will state it is searching for another song but then never play.I have to log back in for the station to play again but it will do the same after a few played songs.I used to be able to listen and mark all the songs all day long but now this is not happening. I was curious if somthing is going on with Pandora that is effecting all my stations

Hi from Canada.
I miss my Pandora. I listened to it religiously and relied on it to help me decide what CD’s I would buy…
I really hope these international differences can be resolved… please work on brining it back to Canada!
ASAP!!!

Pandora is a great tool!

Frank

I find it strange that only Pandora has a problem with this. The most immediate example I can think of is last.fm which thrived doing exactly what it does now for many years as an independant company, long before it was bought out by CBS. Indeed CBS bought them out (without applying some CBS Mandate with regards to branding, unlike the weird experience I get of seeing the CBS eye watch me from billboards in Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Metro stations) *because* they were successful, innovative and truly international.

Also there are several thousand conventional internet radio stations that don't feel the need to block listeners from outside their own country, how many American listeners are blocked from listening to XFM, BBC Radio, Virgin Radio or even smaller internet-only stations such as 2XS or NE1FM?

In short, I don't understand how this problem that Pandora has can be exclusive to them.

I hope it gets sorted soon. If the licensing authorities don't act in your favor, they will be actively encouraging illegal streaming and downloads.

could you somehow provide some means of emailing us patiently waiting international pandorians as and when your box will be open or will we know anyway?????spooky!

my fingers are crossed, i sure miss you dearly here in canada, you helped me through my work days, my housework, my workouts, you even helped me to seranade a few ;) AND also get some good parties started... the world needs Pandora, best of luck, ive got your back, and am eagerly awaiting your return as are so many other people i am certain. fight the man!

Checking in from Canada. Aw, still no music.

I like the notion of either a textual pandora, or if we can just *see* our old playlists. I can't remember all the songs I marked thumbs-up, and I'd like to track them down and listen to them again.

Another Australian Pandora orphan here. What a shame! I'll be back on in a flash if you can find some way of getting it up again. I'll even pay for the privilege if that helps - doesn't Australia have a free trade agreement with the US?

Yeah, that FTA sure isn't helping us.. but we didn't get all the ridiculous copyright laws either so I'm thankful for that.

Pandora - Please release an ad supported, text only, version. Don't horde all that good data! I know it's not the kind of site you wanted to run.. but please consider it!

I'd just like to second HarryH's remark about George Persona formerly of radioio -- that man is a master of the mix. Opened my ears to so many wonderful recordings (not to mention works I never would have heard otherwise).

Try it at the European Union; the laws about copyright are regulated on europe-scale. if you manage Pandora at the EU, many countries will provite.

Good luck with the juridical mess. I hope you guys will suceed.

where can I register for padora radio on line I am not getting anything saying where to register because the screen that comes up is always blank?

Thanks

Hi there,

another aussie here who's heard about your service and, unfortunately, been unable to sample. Also curious about the international barriers your experiencing.

Is a possible interim solution to franchise your set up and find people to get it started in each individual country for their local markets to begin with? You could have links between the countries' sites and regular link ups between the pandora franchisees.

Sounds to me like you've got many passionate folk around the world and I'd bet many of them would be more than capable and willing to join in the fight to make Pandora global by becoming involved in running it locally.

Having people on the ground so to speak would grow demand and awareness in each country and could only help the overall global case I'm sure.

This is probably a whole different set of legal issues that would detract from your original battle, but maybe this set is faster to process. don't really know, not a business or legal mind, just a thought.

I saw you mentioned in WIRED this month in an article about lala.com

How about an update on the domestic political front ?

SaveNet Radio doesn't seem to have anything much posted since August.

Is IREA dead? Are royalty negotiations still in progress? Is it time to recontact representatives? How do the Presidential candidates stand on this? Is there a list of foes and supporters in Congress posted somewhere?

Can we help? It is sad to see what has happened internationally. I would hate to lose Pandora in the US.

Surely if you can do it in the States you can get the rights for Canada. I miss my personal setup with all likes and dislikes! Forget the UK - Go Canada!

Thanks for your post about the Internet Radio Equality Act (IREA), Tom. In short, we're in a negotiation phase right now.

The Washington Post had an article last week that pretty much summarizes where things stand:

Jon Potter, head of the Digital Media Association: We made a royalty rate proposal on Aug. 23, and we have not heard a reply back. Richard Ades, SoundExchange spokesman: Discussions are continuing and the organization has been meeting with individual webcasters to better understand their finances. We're moving as fast as we can considering there are so many parties involved.

So there you have it. The public support led Congress to intervene and force a negotiated settlement. We are growing more and more frustrated but will give the process a bit more time to see if it can yield a resolution.

Here's a link to the full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302123.html

We're extremely grateful for all the help we've gotten from our listeners thus far and we will be sure to let you know if there's something you can do that will advance the cause further.

Thanks again for the concern. Tim (Founder)

Hi !

I was really frustrated when Pandora's access was forbidden for non-us users.
I have never seen anything better. During the few months I have used the "radio",my music collection grew twice its size.
Thank you for such a brilliant product, and we hope to hear from you in France.