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I listen to Pandora every day, at the office or at home through my blue ray player. The stations i have set up are, Thievery Corporation, Glenn Miller, Chill / Down Tempo, Walter Wanderly, Benny Goodman, Moby, Gustav Hoist and Vince Guaraldi Trio Holiday.

It's the first thing i do in the morning when i get to the office is log on to Pandora. I use the free account, i dont mind the commericals, its only like one every 20 min.

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I love that you can season the stations the way you want by thumbs up'ing or thumbs down'ing too. A few others I listen to alot are Otis Rush; Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; MGMT, Zac Brown (and seasonally, Country Christmas). The Zeppelin one ironically has too much Bob Seger etc. and not enough Zeppelin.

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I've found that by telling Pandora what you don't like only seems to work best. Their software doesn't go by band name it goes by a musical type. I started a jazz guitar station using Pat Metheny and several other contemporary players and by various "dislikes" I now get a steady stream of jazz guitarists both contemporary and older. I did similar with an acoustic blues station, by disliking anything electric I've got a nice delta blues radio station now as well.

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I'll probably get negative feedback for this since I always do but I HATE the Beatles. I think their the worst band ever. But no matter how much I vote them down Pandora keeps trying to make me listen.

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I have built an awesome radio station specializing in hard rock and blues from the 60's and 70's. I have successfully kicked out anything post 1980, and completely eliminated the Who and the Doors. Great for when I am drawing, driving to school, trying to get to sleep, working around the house, whatever.

Apparently they use the music genome project to pick songs with similar chord structures and musical features. I agree that telling it what you don't like is the best way to build the station. That and adding song or artist seeds. For my station I have Led Zeppelin and Robin Trower as the artist seeds I think.

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