When you listen to the radio, you are at the mercy of the station manager and what he/she wants to play. Sometimes you like the songs and sometimes you don’t and your only recourse is to change the channel. Wouldn’t it be great if you could create your own station that only played your favorite songs and songs that sound similar? Well, that is exactly what you get from www.pandora.com

Pandora allows you to create up to 100 personalized internet radio stations and listen to them on your computer or your iPhone or Windows Mobile Phone. Sorry about that Palm users.
Getting started couldn’t be easier. You simply tell Pandora your favorite songs and you are ready to go. Even one song will get you going. Pandora will then create a radio station based on music you like and music that is similar to music that you like. Registering an account isn’t required to get started, but you will need to register to save your stations.

How does Pandora do this? Pandora knows all about music based on data from the Music Genome project. The music genome project began in 2000 by a group of musicians with the goal of mapping all music based on certain characteristics. They have assembled hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” into a very large Music Genome. These genes capture the true essence of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to arrangement to lyrics.

Ok, so back to Pandora….what happens when you hear a song that you like or don’t like? When you like a song, and want to hear it played more often, then click the “Thumbs Up” icon. When you don’t like a song, and then simply click the “Thumbs Down” icon and the song will stop playing.

This how Pandora learns from you. By presenting you with new songs that are similar to songs you already like, and by recording your thumbs up and down designations, Pandora learns what you like and don’t like. Pandora then keeps sending you songs that you should enjoy. If you hear a new song that you want to buy, then just click to buy from iTunes or Amazon.

If you want more information about the new bands you are listening to, then click on Pandora Backstage to get more data about artists, their music, their albums, and about our listeners and their stations.
Even better, you can share your station with you friends as well as see and listen to other stations that have been created other pandora-ites that are just like you.
If you want to take control of your listening time and discover new music and artists, then Pandora is the website for you.