August 29, 2005 at 10:46 am
· Filed under Music, Tech
What’s with the low-bitrate songs on Pandora? I’ve been listening to a few different radio stations, and it seems like about 20% of the songs are 64bit max. It’s enough to make me want to stop listening! For example “Somewhat Off The Way” by “Dogs Die in Hot Cars” sounds just plain bad.
That sad, they’re making it better. I still am not a mood person though. Even after adding a bunch of different artists and songs to a random station, I’m still bored. Plus I love those last.fm stats!
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August 22, 2005 at 9:30 pm
· Filed under Music, Tech
After a few months of being a relatively happy last.fm user, I started reading some reviews and profiles of a new radio service called Pandora. Pandora, like last.fm provides you with your own personalized radio station. Unlike last.fm, it bases the music similarity on profiles of individual songs characteristics, input by musicians who actually listen to the music toiling away for YEARS to generate their 300,000 song library. An interesting concept to say the least! About 24 hours after submitting my email address on their site, I received an invitation.
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