I just discovered a new site: Pandora Radio.
The site allows you to create your own Internet radio station through use of song and band comparisons. All that you have to do is put in a favorite artist and it starts your station. You can then rate songs up or down and add other artists to the station. After all while the site is supposed to learn your preferences down to styles such as “varying tempo and time signatures” and “repetitive melodic phrasing”, just to name a few.
I personally think that this is a brilliant idea. Having had previous experience being able to play whatever I wanted while I was the Programming Director at the college radio station, I can testify that it is cool to be able to listen to a huge variety of music that you like while still in a radio format.
In this day and age of social networking people seem to expect being able to customize their entertainment experience. Pandora allows this and gives you the power of social networking.
My first created station (based off of the artists Five Iron Frenzy, MxPx, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) can be shared with other users to the site looking for similar music. I can also create a station to give to someone. It’s like a modern version of the mix tape.
Pretty cool if you ask me.
