There are also ways to interact with other Pandora Radio listeners, recommending songs, creating profiles, etc. And when Pandora plays a song I like in particular, I have a few options: I can rate it w/ a thumbs up, so the station knows to play more songs like it, and I can also Bookmark the song, so I can remember the artist and album for future reference. Right now, I am listening to “Bluegrassy Instrumental” (one of the genre-stations they also offer), and I’m loving it. So I started creating other stations, and decided it was well worth creating an account at the site, so I could save my stations for future use. And the neat part is, now I have learned about an artist I never would have known about, for free, who plays the same kind of music as Jason - the kind of music I like. Well, it wasn’t Jason, but it was groovy in all the ways Jason is, and I was pleased. A little pop-up from Pandora told me they were playing this song because, essentially, it “sounds” like Jason’s music. Okay, that’s neat, and I figured it would just play Jason songs in succession… But then, the second song began, and it wasn’t Jason, but a groovy rendition of “Over the Rainbow” by a Hawaiian artist whose name I can’t remember, accompanying himself on a ukulele - a version of the song I had heard about but never gotten around to looking up. I humored Pandora, and typed in “Jason Mraz.” A station called “Jason Mraz Radio” started playing, with the first song as “I’d Do Anything” off of his first studio album, Waiting for my Rocket to Come. But I moseyed on over to the URL, where I was prompted to input a favorite artist or song. When I first heard about it, I was very skeptical as to how user-friendly, effective or accurate such a claim could be. This website allows you to create personalized, customized Internet radio stations that play only the music you love. Because we all love music, right? But of course we love very different kinds of music… And that’s where the brilliance of Pandora Radio comes in. I know all about it - I’m the trusty librarian that is up at least half the night with you this week, at the Reference Desk ’til 2 am when we close.īut boy, did I come across a gem of a website that I believe you will love as much as I do. Dum-dum lollipops from the Reference Desk.
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