Worthless and Weak

If you're not using Pandora, you should be. Simply go to the site, type in the name of an artist or song that you like, and it will begin playing music like that artist/song. It works pretty well. Some artists are great, for instance, if you like Thomas Dolby, you'll probably love 90% of what appears on the station (because Thomas Dolby is the archetypal synth-pop artist. Other artists it doesn't work well with. For instance, if you use Johnny Cash, it will just play country. Which, I guess is ok, but none of it really sounds like Cash. While you may say that this in inevitable, as Johnny Cash is unique. But i'm going to slightly disagree. There are some who sound more like him, (Merle Haggard, for instance) and they weren't on the radio.

But i digress, that is neither here nor there. There are some improvements I would like to suggest. (I think that my improvements have a good chance of being heard, because 33% of my readership are google employees, and pandora is probably either owned by google, soon to be owned by google, or google will launch a competing product soon).

Pandora should have the option of merging and mixing radio station playlists. That way, if I'm doing something and I want to listen to 50% eighties, 25% nineties, and 25% 60's, I can do so, without having to listen to them in blocks (or to manually switch them). I know they have the option of making a station that is done off of two artists, but that will try to find music that resembles both of the stations, instead of either of them (I think).

If you can already do this, well, it should be easier to do, (completely intuitive)! So I should already know about it.

That just about sums it up. Good product, could be better. Use it if you're not already doing so.

cheers!

Garrett


PS Congrats to Sean, who was my 5,000th visitor.

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