Deviant Code

Check out the magic of Pandora and the Music Genome Project at http://www.pandora.com/ – I have been listening to Pandora for some time now and I absolutely love it. Pandora is an online service that allows users to create personalized ‘stations’ that stream music straight to the client. Currently, Pandora offers a client for the desktop via an Adobe Air application, the iPhone in the App Store, the Android in the Android Market, on Blackberries, Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, and select phones from AT&T and Sprint(1). Co-founder of Pandora radio Tim Westergern has announced his intentions to deploy Pandora radio to every new car in the near future (2).

Pandora is free for the ad supported version but does impose a few restrictions. However, for a small fee of $36 per year (3) the listening restrictions and advertisements are eliminated.

Running the Pandora client on a mobile device such as an iPhone or Android offers an alternative to downloading and storing music on your phone. The client streams music over the wireless providers network or over a wifi connection. I listen to Pandora radio throughout the day while I work and I find that the audio quality is very good. At my office I do not have wifi available therefore I stream Pandora over the 3g network throughout the day. Within my building I tend to have fairly poor 3g reception but I rarely notice any interruption to the music stream. Even with occasional interruptions in my 3g service the music continues to transparently stream and buffer unless I have a noticeable amount of interruption in service. I am a heavy 3g data user on top of streaming Pandora radio all day long and yet I generally only use around 1.5GB of data per month.

I strongly recommend Pandora radio to anyone who enjoys listening to music on the go. The mobile and desktop clients make for a pleasant and easy to use listening experience. Additionally, the Pandora client allows users to share the songs and stations they are listening to with Facebook and Twitter. Check out Pandora and I think you’ll enjoy it nearly as much as I do too.

1.) http://www.pandora.com/on-the-go/

2.) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-1021-ct-facetime-pandora-20101019,0,7135314.story

3.) http://blog.pandora.com/faq//contents/1494.html