Pandora just doesn't get it

[hazelkrs1]

So I'm listening to pandora internet radio, and the current station I have on is Pure Thrash/New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I'm pretty pumped cause it went from "Seasons of the Abyss" by Slayer, right into "Peace Sells" by Megadeth (insane cool bass line at beginning). Then all of a sudden, the next song is... "Mad World" by Gary Jules. Yeah, the one from Donnie Darko, that's the one (and I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad...). Good song, but how in the world does Pandora sit there and think "Okay this guy lists Anthrax, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, and Sepultura as his favorite bands on this station. We're pretty sure he's ready to listen to some soft piano and gentle vocals right about now."

 

Pandora just wtfpwned my aggression.

[hazelkrs1]

It just happened again.

[Netbattler11]

You get a cookie for failure.

[Windrunner]

Downvote the lame songs! Pandora is SMAHT..kind of.

[hazelkrs1]

I still like the song, just not on that station. I like Pandora's ability to compute what I like, I just have no idea why it went with that song.

[Leyrann]

Can somebody explain what Pandora is?

[Leelou]

It is a internet based radio that plays songs according to what you tell it you like. Or it is supposed to anyways.

[Leyrann]

I use Winamp for that...

[hazelkrs1]

don't you have to download songs for winamp? pandora plays songs you haven't dowloaded or anything, and for free.

[Leyrann]

Yes, you have. But my father has downloaded almost all music possible. So it's almost never a problem.

[hazelkrs1]

I dunno, there's a lot of music out there... but meh it's up to you. You should at least give it a shot, did I mention it was free?

 

http://www.pandora.com/

[Leelou]

Winamp is still in existence? I haven't used that program since 2002.

[Windrunner]

The two things I loved about Winamp: the simple layout and the plethora of skins.

 

I think it would be amazing if apple allowed its customers to customize the layout of their iTunes window

[eclipse0]

I hate iTunes. 3rd party media players 4tW

[Windrunner]

Which 3rd party players are you talking aboot!?

[eclipse0]

Anyone really. WinAmp is a good example. Even WMP is better than iTunes in my not so humble opinion.

[Leyrann]

It only allows Americans...

[Rasheta Ardashir]

I like Pandora but sometimes it isn't quite on the ball. *laughs*

[hazelkrs1]

It only allows Americans...

 

I did not know that. I apologize

[Netbattler11]

Which 3rd party players are you talking aboot!?

 

All of them. In my opinion, open source software will always beat out proprietary. I like rhytmbox though. Too bad it doesn't work on windows for all you ppls.

[charis sedai]

I haven't used Pandora since like, 2003- it was just a bay program then, lol.

 

I like musicovery.com, myself.

[Locke]

I use....CD's and Ocremix. =p But I'm gonna buy an mp3 player soon, yay. I have finally recognized my need for it.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i just got me one, and... epihany. all your music, right here, one place, all together... wonderous thing.

[Windrunner]

I'm really digging' spotify. Being able to listen to whole cds is really awesome.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i'm still feeding my new toy cds, but i will run out of space before i'm done today or tomorrow, and there's still all my friends' and family's cds, and the library, and i haven't even started on the stuff i wanted to complete the dylan and stones and beatles and zep and who and bowie... things i never got to replacing on cd when cassettes went bye bye... so i think i'm gonna need one of the regular ipods with the bigger memory... but still flipping amazing devices. can't beleieve it's taken me this long to adopt the technolgy. stubbornness is not always a good thing.