pandora | Guitar Musingshttps://www.guitarmusings.comthoughts and explorations on becoming a better guitar player and writerFri, 11 Jul 2008 20:16:41 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1Pandora on The iPhonehttps://www.guitarmusings.com/pandora-on-the-iphone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pandora-on-the-iphonehttps://www.guitarmusings.com/pandora-on-the-iphone/#respondFri, 11 Jul 2008 20:16:00 +0000http://www.guitarmusings.com/2008/07/11/pandora-on-the-iphone/In past posts, you have read my recommendations on Pandora Radio offerings.   I love listening…

The post Pandora on The iPhone first appeared on Guitar Musings.]]>In past posts, you have read my recommendations on Pandora Radio offerings.   I love listening to the diverse music online and the musicology podcast is the one of the best out there.  There was something missing, however.  I couldn’t listen to Pandora on the iPhone, until now. 

I recently updated my iPhone to the new version 2.0 software and with that we got the new “App Store.”   Pandora has written a sweet app that will let you listen to you’re selections on your phone.  I know, I know!  I have an iPhone with a ton of music on it, why would I need to stream music now?  I like it because I hear new music that would otherwise be unknown.  Pandora gets me to listen outside the box.  Anyway, if you have the new 3G iPhone or upgraded the older one, give it a shot.  You would be disappointed.

Note:  I did this on the original iPhone so I didn’t need the high speeds of the 3G network to stream the music effectively.

Links: www.pandora.com

The post Pandora on The iPhone first appeared on Guitar Musings.]]>https://www.guitarmusings.com/pandora-on-the-iphone/feed/0Pandora: a great resource for new musichttps://www.guitarmusings.com/pandora-a-great-resource-for-new-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pandora-a-great-resource-for-new-musichttps://www.guitarmusings.com/pandora-a-great-resource-for-new-music/#commentsTue, 12 Feb 2008 22:29:29 +0000http://test.mountainvistatech.com/2008/02/12/pandora-a-great-resource-for-new-music/I’ve been listening to streaming radio lately and have found myself addicted to Pandora.com.  Pandora…

The post Pandora: a great resource for new music first appeared on Guitar Musings.]]>I’ve been listening to streaming radio lately and have found myself addicted to Pandora.com.  Pandora is a new type of radio that was founded by the Music Genome Project.  What happens is you create what is called a radio station.  You start the radio station with a seed, either an artist name or a song title.  That’s it, Pandora will then sort through it’s extensive database of analyzed music to find songs that match the qualities of the artist or song you specified.  This could be anywhere from keys, time signatures, type of singer, type of instruments used, etc… For me, I started a station with Tommy Emmanuel and Bruce Cockburn as the seeds.  I then got tons of music of solo acoustic guitar with some vocals.  If you like a song, you can give it a thumbs up and you will hear more like it.  If you don’t like the song, a thumbs down will restrict similar music from your station.  You will definately use this because there will be songs that you hear that you wonder “why the heck is this playing.”

What is nice about this station is that I have been exposed to music that I didn’t know was around.  It has definitely broadened my musical knowledge.  My first criticism of pandora was that I can’t create a station based on a genre.  They do have some “presets” that you can use that sort by Rock, Soul, Jazz, Holiday, etc… but not even close to enough. For example, I love musicals but they don’t have a category for them and I have yet to find very many in that genre.  I hope they expand.

 I encourage you to check it out and let me know what you think and if you have an special tips that I can use to better use pandora, that would be great.

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