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May 21, 2008
San Francisco Event Recap
We had the pleasure of meeting many of our San Francisco listeners on May 13. Thank you to the hundreds of people who came out for the event. It was great to talk with you, not just about your Pandora stations, but about all things musical.
The occasion for the party was the premiere of our latest Studio Stories video. After screening the piece, we hosted a Q&A session with the leaders of the Plant Studios, Arne Frager and Mari Tamburo. It was enlightening to hear Arne and Mari's insights about the music industry, and their opinions on what studios need to do to thrive in today's climate of home digital recording and shrinking production budgets.
The night also afforded me the opportunity to do a live walkthrough of the music analysis process that serves to build the Music Genome Project. We took a song by Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs, "Shepherd's Purse," and pulled it apart to hear the arrangement, the instrumentation, the rhythmic and harmonic construction, and the vocal and lyrical story therein. To close out the night, the trio formation of Michael Zapruder's Rain of Frogs performed live.
Below are some photos from the event. Again, thanks to all who turned out to make it such a fun experience for all of us. We hope to see you all again soon.
Posted by Kevin at May 21, 2008 11:44 AM
Comments
that is a realy cool picture. it looks like my house at night
Posted by: christopher jacobs at May 21, 2008 06:43 PM
Im deaply sorry that you are running out of money
Posted by: The C The T The J at May 21, 2008 06:47 PM
My favorite station keeps cutting out, no music. What's the scoop ?
Posted by: Patrick Atherholt at May 22, 2008 03:29 AM
The picture looks cool and pretty I should go there!!!!!!
Posted by: jasmine at May 22, 2008 09:07 AM
Christopher and Jasmine -- The water's warm here by the Bay. Well, figuratively. The ocean is a bit frosty this far north. But anyhow, northern California is lovely, we agree.
Patrick -- I will get one of our good people to help you with your audio problem. If you ever have any technical problems (or any other issues with your time on Pandora), just email pandora-support@pandora.com.
Posted by: Kevin Seal at May 22, 2008 11:16 AM
Please do not run out of money. Thank you.
Posted by: TimC at May 23, 2008 07:48 PM
I am very frustrated with this website!! I don't want a suggestion of artists to listen to when I put an very specific artist in to listen to! This website SUCKS if you only want to listen to ALL the music from only ONE artist! For example, I only wanted to listen to Vicente Fernandez, but it kept on playing on all this other crap! It is a waste of my time to keep clicking on don't play this song from someone who is not the artist I selected, and not even have a way to play only one artist! It wouldn't be any different if someone wanted to listen to only Led Zepplin, for example! I hate to sound so rude, but this is very frustrating!
-Someone who is interested in using your site, but can't use it to play only the music I want at the time.
Posted by: aaron at May 25, 2008 12:17 AM
Looks like you've the San Francisco event was fun. It seems like you're running into money troubles according to the comments, I'm trying to do my part to spread the word.
I just wrote up a list of my suggestions for improvements for Pandora on my blog at http://duffsdevice.blogspot.com/2008/05/13-things-i-would-work-on-to-make.html
I wish you all luck, I love the service, and wouldn't want to live without it.
Posted by: Ryan Svoboda at May 25, 2008 08:44 PM
Ryan and TimC and CTJ -- As long as Pandora continues to have happy advertisers, we won't need to worry about running out of money. Thanks for your concern, but no need to fear that we'll be disappearing any time soon. (And hey, click on those ads if you want to make our sponsors ESPECIALLY happy, or let them know how much you love that they advertise on Pandora. -grin- )
Aaron -- The reason that you can't get all songs by the same artist on Pandora is that Pandora is a free radio service. What you describe is not web radio, but rather an on-demand music service, and such a service would require a subscription fee. There are plenty of on-demand subscription services out there; Pandora just isn't one of those.
Posted by: Kevin Seal at May 26, 2008 06:14 PM
Why does the music keep stopping. It plays one song and then stops and I have to restart the whole program.
Thanks
Posted by: Joan Wilson at May 28, 2008 06:02 AM
I'll have our Support Team contact you, Joan!
They're at pandora-support@pandora.com, for future reference.
:) Lucia
Posted by: Lucia @ Pandora at May 28, 2008 01:19 PM
I see verizon on the wall, what are the chances that pandora mobile will be available for verizon phones soon.
Posted by: Brian at May 29, 2008 06:45 PM
Hi Brian -
Verizon, one of our advertisers, sponsored that event...that's why their name was on the wall.
We are indeed hoping to get Pandora on more cell carriers and more cell phones models in the near future!
:) Lucia
Posted by: Lucia @ Pandora at May 30, 2008 01:08 PM
Cool site. I've been searching for a radio site that plays similar music to the few artists I normally listen to. I've discovered that like many more artists. This is very cool and it�s broadening my tastes. Thanks.
Posted by: Bill at June 11, 2008 12:40 PM
Hey, Bill --
Happy to hear it! Thanks for listening.
Cheers,
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin Seal at June 11, 2008 02:10 PM
