A Nerd Reviews

http://www.pandora.com The Music Genome Project.If you go to www.pandora.com, after couple of quick and easy steps, you are designing a radio station (or several radio stations) that plays songs similar to your tastes…in theory. 
The problem I am having with Pandora is a problem I have with a lot of radio stations; repetition. I am hearing the same songs every day, sometimes twice a day, often (in the case of Blues Traveler’s Hook, three or four times a day, seven days a week). Of course, Pandora offers you the option of removing a song from your playlist for a month, but what if I want to listen that song in a week or two? Or, what if I am just too lazy to block every other song–Which, I am, by the way.I also do not like that you can not go back. You can see that artist and song that just played (nice) but if you were not paying attention, and you would like to actually listen to that song that just played that you think sounded kind of cool, you are stuck waiting for it to come back around…and the chances that it will come back around are slim unless you give that song you are unsure about a thumbs up.And, if you really loved that last song, you can not purchase it on Pandora. We had a radio station on

Michigan
State
University’s campus that had a link to itunes for each song they just played, so you could go and purchase whatever marvelous tunage you just heard. 

But, until someone offers Pandora.com money to associate them, they are unlikely to offer a music purchase option. 

So, I like it. It is nice to use in the office as background music sans-commercials. But it is annoying. I can only hope that it, much like Netflix, will improve with time