Tag: PANDORA

Last month I wrote about mufin.com's music discovery engine. Unlike traditional music discovery services like last.fm or the Genius Mode in iTunes 8, mufin analyzes the actual musical structure of a song. This is great for music lovers because it can really open up more opportunities to discover new bands. Co-developed at the Fraunhofer Institute (the creators of the MP3 format), mufin uses audio ...

As a music lover, one of my favorite innovations of the last five years or so has come in the form of music discovery services. Services like Last.fm, Pandora, Rhapsody and iTunes 8 have made it easy to find artists or songs that are similar to your musical tastes and preferences. The only problem with these services, is that they are based on limited databases (like the iTunes Music Store, for ...

Remember how last year there was a big to do about the future of internet radio? The US Copyright Royalty Board imposed new, higher fees for online broadcasters, and web radio services like Pandora and Last.fm complained that the new fees would effectively put them out of business. A bill was introduced in Congress to work things out, but that never really went anywhere. But now, a year and a half ...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. While using a proxy server might violate the usage license of your ISP or the site you are using, it is as far as I know, not illegal. Still, if you are cautious or in doubt, check with a real lawyer or just refrain from using this type of tool. For anyone who lives outside the US (or is a US citizen but goes outside the country for vacation), one of the more ...

Pandora may be on the brink of self-destruction, but upstart music download service GrooveShark clearly believes in its style of predictive music programming with the launch of its new service, GrooveShark Autoplay. GrooveShark originally launched with a radical new model which proposed to commercialize P2P by allowing users to be rewarded for sharing songs that were purchased by other users. ...

Music discovery service and online radio station Pandora may have to shut down, thanks to high royalty fees imposed last year by the US Copyright Royalty Board. Pandora founder Tim Westergren says his company is currently paying 70% of its revenue to SoundExchange, the organization that collects royalties for artists. While nobody is arguing that artists shouldn't be paid for their work, this ...

Online music sites Pandora and Last.fm do a great job of providing you with streaming music you might like based on your listening history. But what they don't do a great job of us letting you listen to any song you want at any time. That's because music labels actually want you to do things like you know, go out and buy the songs. But in this new information age, practically any song you could ...

There's no shortage of music recommendation engines. Whether you want to find music from artists that sound like Madonna or Meat Beat Manifesto, all you have to do is hit up Pandora, Last.fm, or a similar site and pop a name in the box. If the web site starts playing a song you like, you give it a thumbs up, while a thumbs down should help the software avoid playing music that makes you want to ...

Friday amidst the fury new iPhone application releases, Pandora released an application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to take their personalized radio stations with them. Existing Pandora users can download the free app and instantly have access to all their current radio stations as well as add new ones. If you're not already a Pandora user then the process is slightly more ...

Been so busy trying to figure out Steve Jobs would announce next week that you haven't had time to read the news this week? We'll save you some time. First, it's probably a new iPhone. Second, here are some of our favorite stories from the week that was: Wikia Search human powered search engine becomes useful Ever wish you could rearrange search results in Google? Well, you can't. But you can ...

The holy grail for die-hard Pandora users has been a desktop application. While there have been several third party solutions, Pandora has announced the launch of an official desktop client. Using Adobe AIR, naturally. It's a trend we're seeing, as we mentioned before, and it's nice to see Pandora jumping into the game. You can use all of the features that you'd expect from the website, the ...

We know you've had a busy week, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani. But now that you both have so much more free time on your hands, we thought you might want to spend some time catching up on the news you might have missed this week. Microsoft seeks to acquire Yahoo! If you've been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you might not know this yet, but Microsoft has put in an offer to acquire ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/31/7-ways-to-listen-to-pandora-without-a-web-browser/"; Yesterday we posted a short article about Pandora's Box, a desktop client for Pandora that lets users access the streaming music service without opening a web browser. And our intelligent Download Squad readers instantly started sending us suggestions for alternate clients. So here's a ...

We were looking for a good way to listen to listen to Pandora without the need to keep our web browser open all day, and then we remembered an article we wrote a year and a half ago about Pandora's Box. This Windows-only application lets you login to your Pandora account and access the streaming music service without firing up your web browser. Since we originally wrote about Pandora's Box, the ...

Last Sunday we told you about a way for listeners outside of the US to tune in to Pandora without having to deal with proxies: GlobalPandora. We also predicted that it will get shut down - but who would have thought so soon? It looks like the real Pandora decided to block all the U.S. IPs that GlobalPandora was using. On the site, there's no hint that GlobalPandora is planning on making a ...