Pandora - free streaming music service
Create your own radio station with the music you like
Pandora is a free streaming music service (if you don't mind to have a small banner ads). It is similar to the pay to play services such as Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Napster, iTunes Music Store, Rhapsody,
eMusic. Its music library contains approximately 300,000 songs from over 10,000 artists!!! The collection is amazingly diverse and covers every type of music except classical and world. It's great music from all sources: the big record labels, the indies, and musicians recording and self-publishing from their garage.
Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. It's powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell them one of your favorite songs or artists and they'll launch a streaming radio station to explore that part of the music universe.
They take your input (artists, songs) and feedback ("I like this", "I don't like this") and use the Music Genome Project to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you've told them. That's it; only the music counts. They don't care how popular the artist is, who's backing them, and they don't care which genre bin they usually belong in. Only the music matters.
Also their music licenses do not allow them to play specific songs by request. Your song selection is used to generate a station that will play similar music. Your song will be played eventually, in the mix with lots of other great music.
You may also listen to the top 20 most-listened to stations. You may also pause and skip tracks.
Pandora is available in two forms. Both versions have exactly the same features.
- The first form is an advertising-supported version which is entirely free. Over time we'll be incorporating ads into this version of Pandora.
- For those who want to steer clear of advertising, subscriptions are available in two different flavors:
- ANNUAL: 12 months of unlimited use for $36
- QUARTERLY: 3 months of unlimited use for $12
As a registered Pandora user, you can access your stations from any computer. You may, however, only listen from one computer at a time.
Requirements:
Pandora works on Windows 2000 and XP with Internet Explorer 6 and Firefox. It also works on the MacOS X 10.3+ with Safari and Firefox. Flash 9 is required.
Pandora plays 128Kbps streams. Broadband Internet connection is required.
Pandora is available to the residents of the United States only.
Why Pandora?
- Free streaming service
- Extensive music library (300,000 songs from over 10,000 artists)
- Generates a radio station with similar music
- Completely legal
See also:
- Replay Media Catcher - Capture MP3 music from Macromedia Flash player (from web-sites like Pandora, Last.FM, Finetune). Automatically split and tag songs.
- Replay Music - Record music from streaming music services like Pandora. Replay Music uses special track split detection that works 100% of the time, and the auto tagging works really well, too.
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