Hi again. I've been using Pandora for a little while now and I like it. It's nice to be able to type in an artist or song that you like and get a bunch of similar sounding music. Sometimes, however, I wish they would play more of the actual artist that I have chosen. But, I suppose that would be too much like listening to a CD and would defeat the purpose of exposing the listener to new artists.
I've found that my favorite band, Remedy Drive, which is lessor known and up til last year was independent, does not yield very many comparable results. For one thing, Pandora does not seem to have any of their music from their independent days (they had three albums out before they went to a label and only one since). For another thing, they're a Christian band, which limits the matches to that particular genre, rather than opening it up to all of the music world. As a result, Remedy Drive is the only band that sounds like Remedy Drive that pops up when I type them in--and even then, Pandora only has about four songs of theirs. This makes me want to pull out my CD's and just listen to what I already know I want to listen to. But I suppose this isn't Pandora's fault. As far as I can tell, Remedy Drive's old CD's aren't even available on their own website.
I really like the feature of being able to "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" particular songs. I'm worried, however, about other people (particularly my beloved co-workers) using this feature while my account is logged on. I suppose I have no reason to think that anyone would do that, but it would be too bad if a song that I enjoy was randomly nixed by someone who didn't share my taste. At least if someone were to "thumbs-up" a selection I didn't like, I could just change it when it came up again. I must admit that I did go and delete all of the random play-lists that have been added to my account by persons other than myself--sorry guys. I just was having trouble locating my own lists and I was kind of amazed by how many random lists had accumulated in so short a time.
One thing that I found to be slightly annoying was when Pandora told me that I had skipped as many songs as I was allowed for the hour. But I suppose they don't want you skipping all of the new artists that they are trying to expose you to, so I can understand that.
I noticed that two different lists I have have overlapping artists, which I think is more of a reflection of my taste in music than any flaw that Pandora may have. This brings me to something that I think would be really cool. What if we were able to enter two or three or even more artists and have all of them come up in one play list? Yes, I think that would be very cool.
Okay, I think that's about it for me and my experiences with Pandora. Thanks for reading.
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