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May 15, 2009
Tim answers Viewer Mail, #8
Wondering about live music showing up on your stations, eh? You're not alone in that... here's Pandora's founder, Tim Westergren, answering a few questions about that topic:
IF I THUMB DOWN A SONG'S LIVE VERSION, CAN I STILL HEAR THE STUDIO VERSION?
CAN I ELIMINATE ALL LIVE MUSIC FROM MY STATION?
If you have any questions that you'd like to see Tim answer, then flip on your webcam, tell us your name and where you're from, and then record yourself asking the question. Then, just send us that video file and we'll do our best to answer your question on-camera.
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Here are some of the previous Viewer Mail videos: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Posted by Kevin Seal at May 15, 2009 2:36 AM
Comments
Hey
That annoying Windows ad takes my CPU usage to 99% and bogs everything down. Anybody else experience this?
Posted by: Dev at May 15, 2009 7:48 AM
I was wondering if there is a Pandora player that I can embed on my website and play my bookmarked songs on a continuous loop? or are there just too many legal issues?
Posted by: muMs at May 15, 2009 6:43 PM
Just wanted to say the more I listen to Pandora, the more I enjoy the service that it provides. Thanks Pandora for bringing some very worthwhile to the general public.
Posted by: Lee lee at May 16, 2009 6:11 AM
how do you get the pandora gadget?
Posted by: tim at May 16, 2009 4:53 PM
questions from the previous issue remain unanswered, and thus repeated.
Posted by: Roman at May 17, 2009 1:03 AM
A good amount of live performances are better than the studio versions. There would be little incentive to disable all live songs.
Posted by: Austin at May 17, 2009 5:57 PM
DO YOU GUYS HAVE THE NEW SONG BY BROOKS AND DUNN CALLED COWGIRL DON'T CRY WITH REBA ON IT
Posted by: LANCE at May 18, 2009 10:17 AM
Feature Request:
Can you show the duration of the song somewhere in the widget?
Posted by: Roman at May 19, 2009 1:15 AM
wow, i think you guys have ESP because i've been wondering exactly those questions for the past week or so and voila! there are the answers!
thank you; you're doing a wonderful job!
Posted by: Amy at May 19, 2009 5:01 AM
Thanks for the great service thus far.
Posted by: Chisa at May 19, 2009 10:55 AM
Pandora is really awesome ... keep up the good work guys.
Posted by: Abe at May 19, 2009 1:46 PM
i think you guys have ESP because i've been wondering exactly those questions for the past week or so and voila! there are the answers!
Posted by: Zandra at May 19, 2009 10:45 PM
I recommend that you guys need to go shopping for more of a varietyI,v requested music today and in the past and got the impression that you dont have much of stuff to write home about.Sorry,but thats my impression ithink I,ll go back to youtube...GOOD_BYE..Danyo in Califorinia.
Posted by: DANYO at May 23, 2009 6:58 PM
i just wanted to say that pandora rocks . . . . and . . i'm, uh, well . . really tired . . right now. ;)
Posted by: al at May 25, 2009 5:07 PM
you smell like crap cheese! and pandora totally suck because it only plays new music every once in a while! and also i've added more than one favorite genre/artist variety, but it always plays, like, the SAME ONES! i'm so finding another internet radio.
Posted by: totally12 at May 25, 2009 5:13 PM
I have listened to Pandora for a few years, and lately it is more than just the audio pop up ads that are bothersome. When you can only fastforward so many songs in a set amount of time is understandable, but lately it has applied to ALL the stations-not just the one all the 'FF's happened on..and what's worse is twice yesterday when I could no longer skip any song on any station, I just let it run (known as 'just puttin' up with it, too bad) and guess what? ..it stops playing because it has the 'are you still listening?" showing.Then when I click 'yes' and dont like the song ..IT WONT LET ME FORWARD TO THE NEXT SONG..EXPLAIN THAT ,IF YOU WILL..this is getting to be too much when I have to send the same song over to the same stations again (I am starting to not like some songs now,-burn out)and that counts against the # of songs I can pass on. Something bad has been in the change at Pandora, and I am tempted to feel it's to drive people to the pay site--it wont happen with me, I am getting less patient with Pandora by the day, its getting easier to leave it off and just play songlists on my WMP. i WOULD LIKE AN ANSWER TO THIS ,IF POSSIBLE. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME, SINCERELY
Posted by: aliasalias at May 27, 2009 10:51 AM
Is there some way to hear only the Original artist - I don't care to listen to a re-make. Can I filter out the songs that are recorded by someone other then the orginal artist/song.
I find that I can play Pandora on my balckberry and then plug in an external speaker to the phone for great music away from the house/electricity. Works very well - good job. Now about those copy cat artists.....
Dale
Posted by: Dale at June 1, 2009 2:40 PM
i'm getting two songs at one time,can't listen to that
Posted by: robert r riebling at June 1, 2009 11:25 PM
used to suscribe to Slacker radio thru Blackberry. I hated it because the streaming was always interrupted and it was constant.
Thanks guys for making a internet radio that stays on an allows you to control it not get you frustrated with music cut offs. it was very frustrating.
Posted by: Alan at June 4, 2009 2:06 PM
When will Pandora make an application for Android?
There are imitators on there but nothing that compares to Pandora...Do you have some kind of problem with Google or Android, like Facebook?
Posted by: Ryan Mills at June 8, 2009 11:32 AM
This was a useful post and I think it is rather easy to see from the other comments as well that this post is well written and useful.
Posted by: pop display at October 20, 2010 4:18 AM
Hey, thanks for this helpful resource, just embedded Tim Westergren video on my site to help answer those burning questions by fan. Thanks
Posted by: Menozac at October 20, 2010 11:59 AM
Thanks Tim for an informative video.
IMHO we need to have live music to move forward.
Obviously the chromatic scale is what it is, but it never ceases to amaze me what musicians can achieve within this framework.
Once again thank you.
Posted by: Dawn Pugh at November 9, 2010 11:23 AM