Pandora music service now out of beta

I'll probably pay for this. It's really good so far. I get sick of the music on my ipod and this is a great change. And it automatically works on a mac!

I am definately going to pay once my beta login expires... this thing is one of the greatest ideas in a LONG time

I'd pay except for one thing; they don't take into account lyrical content, just overall sound.

While it's nice when I'm just working, I kinda hate to have a little kid walk in on a bunch of swearing crap.

Sorry guys, but I won't pay 36 bucks for a company who can disappear in two months :-(
Also even if I like the concept, I found the selection repetitive. The catalog is also exclusively based on US songs.
And I feel sad to have try their Beta and not be rewarded by some discount.
No seriously 36$ for a project not mature like that is like throwing your money by the window. Good luck anyway Pandora and come back with some real crack like for example a 10$ as a start price.

Excellent service. But it's simply hard to afford when after having it do its magic for an hour or two I'd bought four albums and another dozen or so tracks it helped me discover. Some discount action would indeed be good. I'd even go for an audio-ad supported version.

It's a very nice service, but since they are pimping sales on iTunes and Amazon, why can't they just earn their revenue from referrals? Afterall, since the whole point of the project is to discover new music, isn't it logical that some/many people will buy songs/CDs?

Why would anyone pay? Yeah this is a good service, but shouldn't amazon and Apple be paying pandora for the click throughs they get? Good idea for a service, but great ideas stay free!!!

I will be paying for it. I found that the more songs that you manually input, the less it becomes repetitively repetitive. :)

I think it's freaking awesome hearing music from bands that I have never heard of that fits the musical style that I like. I thought rock and roll had died, but there are even some new bands that have the kind of timeless musical understanding of Floyd and U2 (although I'm not sure if they can withstand the test of playing their album in my Jeep for two months straight, but it would be a really pleasant surprise if they did)...

The change of pace is just excellent. It's like I expect XM radio to be without me having to switch channels when I get bored of hearing the same crappy song over and over 'cuz I can just tell it never to play it again and it's done. Brav-freaking-o!!

I think it's fine to pay for it. Bandwidth costs money. $3 a month is nothing. They are probably getting some kick back from Amazon and iTunes, but there are still bills left at the end of the month.

The music personalization feature is admittedly better than most other services (Yahoo, Napster, etc.), but it doesn't seem really worth paying for Pandora when Yahoo is only an additional $2/month more (and for that, you get on-demand music, and portability, although Yahoo's customized radio is admittedly not as innovative or interesting as Pandora's).

What would be _really_ cool is Pandora licensing Music Genome Project to other services (Yahoo, Napster, Rhapsody, iTunes), to help with their music suggestion and radio services. This might even be more of a money-maker for Pandora, and it'd allow them to focus on the unique aspect of their service (annotation of songs), instead of worrying about content delivery.