I don't like Pandora

[TheBigA]

If I had to guess, I would guess that this year Grooveshark will get shutdown, Myspace will leave the music business, and we will lose many streaming stations.

Meanwhile, the music industry continues to demand that SoundExcahnge increase the royalty rates that these services must pay. Don't they realize they are killing themselves?

 

[Casey]

That seems to be how it works. Look at what they did to Imeem.

I have been watching blogs from several small internet broadcasters. Almost none of them are making ends meet as is. They have been broadcasting with hopes that people will donate to them, but I don't know of many that are meeting their goals. Live365 seems to be unable to lost some of their motivation to help the broadcasters. I think we will see a lot of small broadcasters go down this year with the current royalty rates. Maybe even some big broadcasters.

 

[Ben Shaton]

I don't find Pandora useful either. Why spend time and energy encouraging Pandora's "computer" to learn my likes and dislikes when I can populate my MP3 player much faster and never play music I dislike.

Because you have to buy the music with which you populate your mp3 player (assuming you stay legal). Because you only populate your player with the music you already know you like; Pandora, with a larger library than any sane person could go to the time, trouble and expensive to build, might find something new you didn't know you'd like.

I already own virtually all of the music I like but I also listen to services such as Radio Free Phoenix for anything new I might want to add. Unfortunately, with the current state of the music industry, there is not much new music I want to hear on a recurring basis.

If I wasn't clear before....I have tried Pandora but found the "computer" has a very different idea of song association than I do. After playing one song I did like it served up four-in-a-row that it thought I would like, but didn't. I found it a huge waste of time. Just MHO of course and YMMV.

I found ErrorFM Channel 2, they play a lot of current music that I like, RFP is also one I listen to, so is Radio Paradise, Pandora, not so much! There are also College Stations, Public Stations, and some British ones that I'll listen to audio streams from. Some of the Indie Music that hasn't hit mainstream is pretty good.

 

[Jay Peninger]

I don't find Pandora useful either. Why spend time and energy encouraging Pandora's "computer" to learn my likes and dislikes when I can populate my MP3 player much faster and never play music I dislike.

Because you have to buy the music with which you populate your mp3 player (assuming you stay legal). Because you only populate your player with the music you already know you like; Pandora, with a larger library than any sane person could go to the time, trouble and expensive to build, might find something new you didn't know you'd like.

I already own virtually all of the music I like but I also listen to services such as Radio Free Phoenix for anything new I might want to add. Unfortunately, with the current state of the music industry, there is not much new music I want to hear on a recurring basis.

If I wasn't clear before....I have tried Pandora but found the "computer" has a very different idea of song association than I do. After playing one song I did like it served up four-in-a-row that it thought I would like, but didn't. I found it a huge waste of time. Just MHO of course and YMMV.

I found ErrorFM Channel 2, they play a lot of current music that I like, RFP is also one I listen to, so is Radio Paradise, Pandora, not so much! There are also College Stations, Public Stations, and some British ones that I'll listen to audio streams from. Some of the Indie Music that hasn't hit mainstream is pretty good.

I own The X KXRX.net and we partner with ErrorFM on a lot of content and yes they are a solid group of dedicated people. I am not sure what Genre you are looking for but certainly if you like Active Rock / Alternative Genre's then my Mighty X isn't a bad choice...

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