DAS Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Awesome site. It's internet radio that plays stuff according to your preferences. Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Love it; my favorite station is the Raconteurs; lots of blues on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedcat Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Pandora is great for blues and jazz listening. Their pay version (only $ 36.00) for a year features no ads and higher bit rate streaming. I love Pandora, it's on constantly here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 I just learned about it last night. I'm like 10 years behind of everything technological. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 You get more Zeppelin if you search for and thumbs up Jimmy Page (or probably Robert Plant) than Led Zeppelin itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedcat Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyn Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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