Comments on: Music from Pandora http://www.16punches.com/2006/06/22/music-from-pandora/ Gotta get geeked Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: 16punches http://www.16punches.com/2006/06/22/music-from-pandora/#comment-21 16punches Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:08:08 +0000 http://www.16punches.com/2006/06/22/music-from-pandora/#comment-21 I found the specs in their FAQs - it's a max of 6 skips per hour. I'm hoping the tweaking will help and that it will indeed get better over time. Any recollection of how long that took for you? I've got 5 different stations started so far and as I remember other interests I used to have I keep adding more. It's fun stuff for sure. The Pandora widget for Opera9 is great. Minimized it offers a volume control, play, pause and skip. Open it up and you see the cover art of the current and 2 previous tracks, the thumbs up and down and the menu for details plus a list of your stations with the controls to create a new one. It's small, unobtrusive, tidy, functional - you're right though, how long can this last? I found the specs in their FAQs - it’s a max of 6 skips per hour. I’m hoping the tweaking will help and that it will indeed get better over time. Any recollection of how long that took for you?

I’ve got 5 different stations started so far and as I remember other interests I used to have I keep adding more. It’s fun stuff for sure.

The Pandora widget for Opera9 is great. Minimized it offers a volume control, play, pause and skip. Open it up and you see the cover art of the current and 2 previous tracks, the thumbs up and down and the menu for details plus a list of your stations with the controls to create a new one. It’s small, unobtrusive, tidy, functional - you’re right though, how long can this last?

]]> By: Jeff Schiller http://www.16punches.com/2006/06/22/music-from-pandora/#comment-19 Jeff Schiller Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:05:42 +0000 http://www.16punches.com/2006/06/22/music-from-pandora/#comment-19 Take heart... bran van 3000 wasn't in Pandora's music collection when I first started using it (Nov 2005) but it's there now... I had forgotten there was a limit on the number of skips you can do in an hour ... I think I encountered this once near the beginning, but the good part is that as you tweak your radio station to your tastes, you will be skipping less and less songs. And you can create different stations too for completely different genres of music. See the "Create a New Station" blue button above your radio station. I can't say enough good things about Pandora. That's why I'm afraid it can't last - but it's been 7 months now for me and I'm still happy. Take heart… bran van 3000 wasn’t in Pandora’s music collection when I first started using it (Nov 2005) but it’s there now…

I had forgotten there was a limit on the number of skips you can do in an hour … I think I encountered this once near the beginning, but the good part is that as you tweak your radio station to your tastes, you will be skipping less and less songs.

And you can create different stations too for completely different genres of music. See the “Create a New Station” blue button above your radio station.

I can’t say enough good things about Pandora. That’s why I’m afraid it can’t last - but it’s been 7 months now for me and I’m still happy.

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