Wednesday, April 07, 2010

A better Radio Station

I have been using Pandora Radio for several years.  I loved it back in the states at work and at home.  Then I got a Blackberry and was even able to get it on my phone.  For those of you that don't know what it is or how it works, it is like a radio station but your the DJ.

The way it works is you pick one or more songs or an artists or an albums or even some combination.  Then the software plays music that matches the characteristics of that song or those that are common among all the choices you made.  you can continue to refine the station in several ways.  you can tell it you LIKE a song and it will play mores songs like that one. You can dislike a song and that song will never play on that station again. And you can say you tell it to skip a song (be careful though, due to licence rights you will only be allow a certain number or skips in an hour) and you can tell it you are tired of a song and it will not play it for a while on that station but it will not remove it like the DISLIKE feature will.

It now also is integrated with Twitter and Facebook among other websites so you can share the stations you have made or tell you friends you like the song you are listening to now.  And the newest feature is you can create a station just for a friend and email it to them.

So if you have not tried it you should.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

thanks! didn't know I could do it on my Black berry or about the dislike and the like function