In Love with Pandora: Music recommendations
What’s better than finding a great thing, that works great and makes me endlessly happy without me having to do much work? Well if you like finding good music, Pandora is for you.
I’ve seen many other “auto recommend music for you” type things over the years but these guys have done it right. In my first half hour of use I found 5 CDs I wanted to buy (and was happy with when they arrived: including Neutral milk hotel, Wonderful Smith and an Elliot Smith CD I didn’t know about).
I was so happy with the results I paid the subscription fee straight away. Isn’t it worth a few bucks to get great recommendations for things? (Or perhaps I’m lame and need to make more music savvy friends :).
They now have a free version (ads) available and I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a flash based UI, but they should get an award for the smoothest & least annoying flash UI I’ve seen in some time. The station model took a few minutes to understand (you have to seed the recommendations process), but once I got it I haven’t thought about it again.