Comments on: Internet Radio – Self Styled….(part 1) Pandora

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:11:58 +0000

Lala.com is one of my favorites. I don’t know if it has a radio function but I love the fact that I can preview any album on it.

Agreed on the TV point too…it it wasn’t for live sports I would ditch my cable package altogether.

By: Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:39:48 +0000

In less than 2 minutes, you can have PC Pandora up and running on your PC. Musical Instruments

By: notimewarp

notimewarp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:41:21 +0000

Pandora is a strange thing. Not a bad idea on paper but not great in execution. It trys to base what songs it dishes you on what you say you like. Problem with that, is it trys too hard. For example, take The Meters. They started out with this funky, organ centered sound (kinda like Booker T. & the MG’s) and eventually became a funk band. If Pandora plays an early Meters song, and you say you like it, it continues to feed you songs like that, instead of expanding through their catalog. And I entered the Rolling Stones and it gave me a steady diet of classic rock crap I can hear on the damn radio (how dare they play me Bon Jovi!), instead of simply giving me more Stones. It did turn me on to some cool stuff (eventually) but I end up skipping over a lotta stuff. For work day listening, I have my own station I put together on Live365, NOTIMEWARP RADIO. That’s another story… Pandora… it’s alright but they could do better.

By: David Palmer

David Palmer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:04 +0000

Checked out lala.com you get a message saying will be available to international listeners soon.Re;BBC you wouldn’t be very impressed with it now mate,know what you mean in the 70′s,80′s the Beeb was untouchable but now it just can’t compete.There is the odd good classic like Question Time but on the whole it needs a total re-vamp,shame but I guess thats progress for you.

By: Tim at The Clash Blog

Tim at The Clash Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:44:16 +0000

I understand…that said….I miss the BBC and liked the lack of adverts (a lot!) Satellite here with far too many channels but plenty of sport/news (and adverts) runs me $75 per month – about 45 quid a month – x 12 is what 540 pounds/year. Considering how I can see (most) of what I want to see online and prefer music anyway…it seems a waste. Incidentally can you access lala.com ??

By: David Palmer

David Palmer — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:59:06 +0000

Tim,Yeah we have spotify but to get it free is invite only,and if your name ain’t on the list and all that.You can pay £9.99 a month,which is o.k if you use it everyday but if not it’s another tenner wasted.I do love the UK but can’t help feeling frustrated at how far behind we are with stuff like this.I mean everybody has SKY now yet we still have to fork out £140 to keep the fatcats at the BBC going,sorry mean a TV licence.As a football fan Tim I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s a disgrace that our national tv station shows none or very little live sport and seems to produce no new programmes.I’ll shut up I’m beginning to sound like my father moan bloody moan.

By: Tim at The Clash Blog

Tim at The Clash Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:00:44 +0000

Thanks Jesse….yeah I always drift away within the hour as I don’t hear the variation I’m seeking. Do you have a favourite site of this type?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:24:57 +0000

I’ve always been disappointed with Pandora as it seems to focus in on specific parts of the artist that I don’t like as much, or just give me mediocre artists that just seem to be imitating whoever I typed in.

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By: Tim at The Clash Blog

Tim at The Clash Blog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:04 +0000

David,

Sorry to hear that….I’ll dig though for some more. You do have spotify though right?