Soundpedia: who needs Pandora
Well, I hope you can sleep at night Pandora. Walking out on us like that. And for what? Just because we don't live in the US? Fine. Yeah, we'll admit, it hurt a bit. Ok, a lot. But you know what? We've moved on. That's right. We found someone else. Ok, so she's not as pretty and as made up as you are, and maybe she doesn't sound as nice, but she's beautiful in her own way. And she's from Singapore. That's right, she's exotic. Jealous? Of course you are. You'll think twice before walking out on us again. Don't bother coming back for your stuff, we through it out.
Ok, so that stopped making sense a few sentences ago, apologies. The point is, there is a pretty decent Pandora-esque type program called Soundpedia that might be the best thing to come out of Singapore since this hilarious picture of a monkey. Ok, so the monkey might still be better, but Soundpedia isn't without it's charm. It's not as slick as Pandora, and the sound quality leaves a bit to be desired, but it has an excellent library and allows you to create your own playlists on top of suggesting music to you. It's easy enough (albeit a little clunky) to use, and works well enough that it might become your new default music player. Unless of course you live in the US and can still use Pandora. In which case, all we ask is that you treat her well, she was special. Now, back to looking at that monkey.












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Subscribe to commentsJoshJun 26th 2007 9:25AM
This doesn't really seem to be a Pandora alternative. It doesn't look to be a way to find new music like Pandora is. If you want an alternative, try the ever popular http://last.fm . Otherwise, this isn't your best choice for a site like this. http://Projectplaylist.com and http://radioblogclub.com are much better at doing the above and generally has good sound quality.
EricJun 26th 2007 9:25AM
Today would be an internet radio day of silence you fools!
http://10inkstudios.blogspot.com/2007/06/internet-radio-day-of-silence.html
I'm sticking with Pandora. If it goes down, I remove the antenna from my car and replace it with an anti-RIAA flag and I only listen to my cds and/or podcasts and such.
If it ain't Pandora, it's not even close.
dpJun 26th 2007 9:25AM
Kind of unfortunate that you kick Pandora when it's down, particularly when DSkwad (you) and TW (Pandora) have shared interests in internet liberties. Maybe you could make up for it by explaining about the Internet Silence Day and that US citizens and residents might write to their politicians on behalf of those who can't.
http://www.pandora.com
http://www.savenetradio.org
EricJun 26th 2007 9:25AM
@DP, Yeah, even if it was a joke, it's a poor one at that.
Ryan SullivanJun 26th 2007 2:04PM
Actually, i'm listening to pandora right now and have been all day. Firefox restored my previously closed tabs and went right to pandora and started playing. I'm not goin to refresh my page because if i go to their site in a new tab i see that letter, but not in yesterday's tab:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1263/633072972_980328b982_o.jpg
(pic to prove it)
AnkherJun 26th 2007 4:16PM
I'll try to treat her well. Pandora is awesome. :)