{"id":178,"date":"2005-11-11T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-11-11T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T14:54:36","slug":"pandora-and-riding-the-crap-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/11\/pandora-and-riding-the-crap-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora and Riding The Crap Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Scoble<\/a> (and Google's Blogsearch<\/a> shows this meme is spreading around the blogosphere today). Pandora<\/a> is an online service that streams music to you. You start by entering which artist you like and it creates your own customized \"radio station\". You can add other artists to the station, and as songs are played you further tailor your selection by giving the \"thumbs up\" or \"thumbs down\" to songs played. They play a wide variety of music, most of which I've never heard before (I would say maybe 20% of the songs are from artists I've selected). It's a great way for music to get sold too (Pandora provides affiliate links to Amazon and iTunes). You can either use their free service (which will be augmented with ads at a later date) or subscribe (for a paltry three or four bucks a month).<\/p>\n

Finally, this is a web service I would consider paying for - we'll see how the ads crappify the experience first though before I go down the subscription route. I have yet to experience any stream interruptions while at work (we'll see how my home broadband connection handles it). The interface is done in Flash. Very slick, very excellent!<\/p>\n

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A good axiom I follow as a service user is that \"eventually everything gets crappy\":<\/p>\n