Tired of listening to radio stations that only play some music that you like? Don’t want to risk hearing offensive songs? Pandora Internet Radio may be the answer for you.
Pandora is your own, personalized, free radio station that you can access on the Internet, smartphones, and other devices. A radio station just for you, with only the music you like. Just enter the name of your favorite artist, song, or composer and the service plays that music on your station. You fine-tune the station using a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” feature to indicate what you like. The service also suggests music you may like based on analyzing 400 different characteristics of the songs you like against their massive database of 710,000 songs that have been analyzed during the 10-year Music Genome Project. Their collection contains almost a century of popular recordings–new and old, well-known and completely obscure.
If you like a selection, you vote thumbs up and the station will find more songs like that. Thumbs down narrows the song choices to those you like. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
The free services allows you to create up to 100 unique “stations” and listen up to 40 hours a month. More costs 99 cents for the rest of the calendar month. They also have an unlimited, ad-free service for $36 a year.
In addition to listening on the Internet and smartphones, you can (or will soon be able to) listen on TVs, Blu-ray players, clock radios, car audio systems, TV set-top boxes, and other devices.
Learn more about the Pandora Internet Radio.
You must be making a lot of $ from all the trash you are advertising in LDS Media Talk. We have enough “Stuff” in our lives and plenty of radio to listen too, so why play up this Pandora stuff? GS
I make no money whatsoever from writing LDSMediaTalk. You’ll notice there is no advertising on our site at all and I don’t get any referral fees. When I write about products I find, like Pandora, it’s because I think they’re useful. I enjoy Pandora because it lets me get rid of some of the distracting “stuff”in my life. Rather than surf through music stations trying to find music I like, I now have a service that plays just the music I’m interested in.
Pandora is indeed a great radio station. I have created at least a couple of radio stations based on LDS artists, including one based on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They always play appropriate music on those stations that you won’t have to be afraid to change the station.
Excellent recommendation Larry!
George, although I agree we all need time for quiet reflection, access to positive, uplifting music really helps.
Any ideas for good “Station” keywords?
http://www.Last.fm is far, far better than pandora.
I found a load of stuff on last.fm. Sure it doesn’t work the same as Pandora, but you can tag songs apparently, and there is an ‘LDS’ tag, as well as artist tags for people like Alex Boye, Steven Kapp Perry, Sam Payne, and some others. The Tabernacle Choir should be there too.
Go to last.fm, and click on Radio in the navbar, type in a tag you are looking for, and hit the Play button (a cirle with a right-pointing arrow) and you’re off.
My wife keeps the “Mormon” channel on all day in the background at home with 7 young homeschooled kids. It sets a great tone. I have the same channel on at work lightly in the background.
Certainly not trash, Pandora is an excellent free service for the home. Any time you have other great services that help, feel free to share. We appreciate it.
I like Pandora too.
Put “Paul Cardall” as the seed artist and you’ll get a great easy listening mix.
Hey George lighten up!
Pandora Internet Radio: The creme de la creme, the best of the best, bar none, period!
This article is blatantly untrue. Pandora plays songs that are extremely offensive to me, such as “Change the World” by Ten Years Later: “everywhere are freaks and Hares, dykes and fairies, where is sanity?”…of course maybe you LDSers are not offended by homophobic slurs? They also routinely play a commercial for Adam & Eve sex toy store with a disgusting, throaty porn star narrator that makes me feel like I am being molested through my earbuds. I guess your mileage may vary, but Pandora has a long way to go before I can listen to it again.
Thank you, Larry. I too listen to Pandora, I have “LDS Hymns” and “Mormon Tabernacle Choir” as my to stations. I was searching the internet to see if there were other options – besides the ones I had. I put in “Paul Cardall” (thanks by the way) Thank you for the feedback it is greatly appreciated.