Pandora Radio
In tune with the old legend about Pandora’s box, the Pandora radio is a big box of surprises. And of course, there is nothing remotely evil about the Pandora radio! The Pandora radio is not your run-of-the-mill Internet radio pattern, where you ask for a song and it plays it. It being Pandora radio, an entity which promises to surprise, Pandora radio works on a slightly different platform. Here’s an article on what is Pandora radio and how to use Pandora Radio.
What is Pandora Radio?
The funny thing about Pandora radio is that it will almost never play the song you ask it to play – something which people cannot decide, if it is a good idea or not. Pandora radio works on a platform which is known as the Music Genome Project. In accordance with the project, the people behind Pandora radio station analyze each song for certain key classifying elements. Each song is classified based on over 400 key musical attributes which Pandora radio claims most songs to have. Larger groups of attributes are called ‘focus traits’ and there are 2000 of those. Examples of focus traits would include key tonality, vocal harmonies and instrumental proficiency. If all that sounded like a lot of codswallop to you, I can put it simply by saying that Pandora radio tags songs which it feels are similar or possess similar attributes and hence the link between two artistes is established. So the people who run Pandora listen to a song and classify it as per which category they believe that the song belongs to. Perhaps the whole thing will become easier to understand in the next section on how to use Pandora Radio and play online music.
How to use Pandora Radio?
Now, using the Pandora radio can be a wee bit tricky. Basically, because when you enter the name of an artiste in their search bar, the radio is not going to play the songs of that artiste. What it is going to play, are songs which the Music Genome Project classifies to be similar to the works of the artiste you’re looking for. So while other Pandora radio reviews claim that they feel annoyed with the radio’s stoic resolve to NOT play what you ask for, fans of the Pandora radio enjoy their knowledge of world music enhanced and the idea of finding new artistes who play music similar to their tastes.
What if Pandora suggests a song which you don’t like? Well, you have the option to give it a thumb down and ensure that the particular song is never played on your station again. You also have the option of asking Pandora radio, why they chose to play a particular song, in response to your request. Alternatively, you could simply skip the song and play another one of Pandora radio’s suggestions. But then again, the ‘skip’ option is pretty much frowned upon by Pandora radio ? who believe that you ought to expand your range of songs you listen to – and you are only allowed to skip 12 songs over 24 hours.
Pandora radio comes in two versions. The free module works 40 hours for a month and after which you have to pay up for unlimited audio streaming. The free module will hanker you with ads, all of which you can completely avoid by paying for an ‘ad-free’ free based subscription.
The Pandora radio, with its application of the Music Genome Project, has more or less revolutionized how you listen to your music today. It is up to us now whether to give Pandora a ‘thumbs up’ or a ‘thumbs down’.
