Anyone else use this site? Pretty cool stuff, its part of the Music Genome Project

You tell it what artist and or song you like, and it creates a radio station to play music similar to that one (based on identified, quantified attributes of each songs). Then you rate songs that are played to further hone your preferences for what you want to listen to. You can create a bunch of different stations and toggle between them at will.

http://www.pandora.com/

8/9/2007 9:27:35 AM

I love that site. Really useful when i'm too lazy to compile my own playlist for a party or deal with peoples mixed cds.

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8/9/2007 9:34:36 AM

^ hm, for some reason that thread didn't come up on my search

8/9/2007 9:38:25 AM

opps yeah i just searched for "pandora" and come up with 4 threads on it.

8/9/2007 9:41:23 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(music_service) has a nice listing of hacks/wrappers for the player for anyone interested

8/9/2007 9:42:48 AM

You use any wrappers? What have you found is the best?

8/9/2007 9:53:35 AM

naw haven't tried any yet...ill try one soon tho so i dont have to keep a browser window open all the time

8/9/2007 10:04:01 AM

I using Pandora's Box now at work, it's useful because Firefox's memory usage would increase geometrically until I'd have to close the browser

8/9/2007 10:05:45 AM

just tried OpenPandora and it works beautifully

8/9/2007 10:14:27 AM

Where do you find these standalone programs?

8/9/2007 11:00:38 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(music_service)

Look under the "hack" section.

8/9/2007 11:01:48 AM

bttt

8/10/2007 11:10:41 PM

damn this thing is awesome

8/11/2007 2:46:31 PM

anyone find a good hack (aka standalone player) that doesn't take up 100MB+ or memory?

8/19/2007 11:26:36 PM

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21464

8/19/2007 11:33:21 PM

^^ "Open Pandora" from that previous wiki link is taking up 16 megs on my pc.

8/20/2007 5:25:06 AM

Yeah, I was just coming to this thread to ask a similar question. I can start Open Pandora and the task manager and watch the memory usage climb constantly. By the end of my workday it constantly uses 100+MB of RAM on my work pc and causes it to freeze up when I try to reboot/shut down/log off. I have to go into the task manager to kill it manually every time I need to log off. Looks like there's a pretty bad memory leak there somewhere.

8/20/2007 11:06:32 AM

It took me a while to get used to it. The interface is a little funky in parts, but it's great to listen to at work.

8/20/2007 11:57:40 AM

^^ yeah thats what i noticed with OpenPandora too. I have 1 GB in the work machine, so I guess I can afford to give up 100MB it just seems like a waste

8/21/2007 12:23:48 AM

pandora has it's own facebook app now. haha. it's actually not too bad.

8/23/2007 8:37:05 PM

here's another service, Deezer - http://www.deezer.com/
looks like it's like Pandora, but a bit more powerful with more options

8/23/2007 8:51:17 PM

anyone know of ay other services (like pandora and ^)?

9/25/2007 1:59:38 PM