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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Posted by Jared @ 11:49 am CST
Filed under: Technology, Music

I've been using Pandora's "intuitive" music program (www.pandora.com), and I like it pretty well. Kinda cool to have a radio station that learns you.

I appreciate the way it apparently figures out my tastes and preferences (even down to ideal bpm), but I hope they figure out how to walk the line between that and getting into a rut. I tell it I like one particular rap song and then it plays me 10 rap songs in a row.

And because you can only skip a certain number of songs every hour, I end up listening to more songs than I care to that I don't like.

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Comments on "Pandora Puts Me in a Box":

1. Pigwotflies - 12/04/2008 3:21 pm CST

Sounds great. It's not available in the UK though. :-( Ah well.

2. Julianna - 12/05/2008 7:54 am CST

That's what you get for listening to rap. =) JK - just not my preference.

3. jez - 12/05/2008 12:23 pm CST

Jared, which rap song did you like?

4. Chris - 12/05/2008 12:33 pm CST

I really was ga-ga for Pandora until the same thing began to happen to me. But it was Ben Folds, not rap. Too much of any good thing is not a good thing. But I still like it ... and it is free!

5. Jared - 12/05/2008 4:18 pm CST

Jez, when I set it up, I was picking all the artists I like, and I think I told it Jay-Z and Kanye West.
Then of course when it plays a different artist's rap song, if I click that I like it, it factors that in.

I think I clicked that I liked a Notorious B.I.G. song and then it played, like, 6 rap songs in a row, none of which did I care for. Weird.
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Chris, I get a ton of Ben Folds too! He must have a deal with them or something.

6. BlueNight - 12/11/2008 7:15 pm CST

Heh. I tried putting in all the Classic Rock bands with place names -- Kansas, Boston, Chicago. The first song it played was by Journey.

I found the best way to manage a Pandora station is to avoid the thumbs-up/thumbs-down buttons. The widest pool possible with no further info is good. Don't forget you can have a whole bunch of stations, and QuickMix them together if you feel each station is in a rut.

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