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Rob1956 · 07-01-2012, 08:52 AM

That's how Pandora works. When you set up a channel, you aren't just getting a channel exclusive to that artist/band. Pandora is a genome project, which means you need to interact with the thumbs up or down interface to fine tune the channel. If you like say If You Could Read My Mind, then the system will take for granted you like folk-based artists, acoustic guitar, some strings, etc. If you thumbs up, say, Edmund Fitzgerald, the system will throw in folk-based songs with acoustic guitar, but will throw in songs with some electric guitar, etc.
You get 6 songs per hour of your main artist. If you want to send Pandora $36 a year, you get Pandora One. The commercials are gone, you get a couple more songs per hour of your main artist, and the quality of the audio is bumped up. You also get a terrific desktop app to launch Pandora independently without having to open a browser. Listening to Pandora One on my main audio system over a Blu-ray player which has Pandora, I honestly can't tell the difference between my Lightfoot cd's and the internet connection. That's with a very expensive Yamaha receiver which reveals all sorts of flaws in source quality. By the way, they sometimes get it wrong. Last night they played "Steel Rail Blues" showing the Gord's Gold album cover. The version was obviously the one Gord recorded in the '60s, not 1975.

07-01-2012, 08:52 AM	#4
Rob1956 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Hickory Hills, IL Posts: 454	Re: Seredipitous Gord / Pandora That's how Pandora works. When you set up a channel, you aren't just getting a channel exclusive to that artist/band. Pandora is a genome project, which means you need to interact with the thumbs up or down interface to fine tune the channel. If you like say If You Could Read My Mind, then the system will take for granted you like folk-based artists, acoustic guitar, some strings, etc. If you thumbs up, say, Edmund Fitzgerald, the system will throw in folk-based songs with acoustic guitar, but will throw in songs with some electric guitar, etc. You get 6 songs per hour of your main artist. If you want to send Pandora $36 a year, you get Pandora One. The commercials are gone, you get a couple more songs per hour of your main artist, and the quality of the audio is bumped up. You also get a terrific desktop app to launch Pandora independently without having to open a browser. Listening to Pandora One on my main audio system over a Blu-ray player which has Pandora, I honestly can't tell the difference between my Lightfoot cd's and the internet connection. That's with a very expensive Yamaha receiver which reveals all sorts of flaws in source quality. By the way, they sometimes get it wrong. Last night they played "Steel Rail Blues" showing the Gord's Gold album cover. The version was obviously the one Gord recorded in the '60s, not 1975.