If you've never used Pandora you are missing out on a great website. For those of you who don't know what is, Pandora is a music website where you enter one of your favorite songs or artists, and the site plays songs with similar qualities to the first song or artist you entered. The system works quite well and has led me to many new artists that I had never heard of before using the site. I'll go into more depth below about the various parts of the site, but if you stop reading here, I love the site and you should definitely check it out.
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Content: The most important part of a music site is the content available to the user, and for the most part Pandora does an exceptional job. I'm a fan of rap and hip-hop, so I started my search with Bullet by Rhymefest. Not only did Pandora point me toward popular artists such as Eminem and Akon, but it also played some lesser known artists such as Blue Scholars. My one gripe with Pandora is its lack of lesser known artists but that's not really Pandora's fault. As the artists become more popular and more people request their songs on the site, Pandora will add them to the database. It also has a skip song button, but you can only use this a few times every hour
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Layout: The layout of the site is clean and it's very intuitive. Move your cursor over the album cover and select a thumbs up or thumbs down to rate the song and narrow in on your favorite music. Pressing the Guide Us button opens up more options, including not playing a song for a month or adding more of your favorite music. It also lets you know why the current song is being played, which can be handy if you want to Google certain themes that you like. The site also supports multiple stations, so I have one for rap and hip-hop and one for rock, and it's very simple to switch between the two on the sidebar. Another nifty feature is the ability to share stations with your friends,
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so you can explore a variety of different music and add new content to your own station.
To sum it up, I love this site. I always use it when I am working because it requires zero user input to run for hours, especially once you have rated lots of songs. There are some people who use the site for illegal music downloading (see my article about that here) which is sad because it tarnishes the sites otherwise amazing concept and implementation. Go sign up and
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get listening!
My name is Miles Moen and I run a blog that reviews a variety of products, from technology to sporting goods. I also occasionally write my opinions about current topics in the news.