I LOVE this: Free online radio
Posted on May 9, 2006 8 Comments
I am simply in love with Pandora, a free music service provided in conjunction with Friendster.
At first, I wasn’t quite sure what to do with a Friendster account. After I looked up everyone I went to high school with (and, OK, grade school, too), the fun seemed to end rather unceremoniously.
Until I found Friendster Radio, that is.
You basically select artists or songs that you like to create your own station, and then it plays all day long based on your music preferences as identified by something called the Music Genome Project (the more you grade, the more the station fine tunes). I know that MSN used to have something like it, but I always used to run out of songs and you could only discard 5 every hour and then the whole service went away. This seems to have staying power…I’ve been listening to a station based on The Shins and The All-American Rejects today. It’s so great!
And it’s free. I’m probably late to the game here, but for those of you who don’t yet have Friendster accounts, sign up and use the radio function.
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May 9th, 2006 @ 11:10 pm
Have you seen last.fm? They do have a premium service with additional features so it really isn’t “free.”
May 10th, 2006 @ 12:39 am
Even better, if you really like Pandora, you can combine it with last.fm via PandoraFM!
May 10th, 2006 @ 1:34 pm
I prefer Radio Paradise.
May 10th, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
Gotta love KEXP.org. Public radio out of seattle. John in the morning.
May 10th, 2006 @ 7:15 pm
I’m not sure you figured this out yet from the other comments,
, but you can do pandora without going through friendster by going to http://www.pandora.com
May 11th, 2006 @ 1:38 am
Make your selections wisely. You can only create up to 10 different stations on Pandora…and then that’s it. I didn’t know there was a limit when I tried it so now I’m stuck with the ones created hastily in the excitement of it all when I first discovered it.
May 11th, 2006 @ 3:14 am
Correction to my previous post: you can create up to 100 free stations after you have completed their free registration. The catch is that once you register, you’ll have to listen to ads. You can then pay to get rid of the ads.
May 11th, 2006 @ 5:25 pm
I have done the free registration on pandora, and was warned that ads would be forthcoming, but they never did! I have been listening free (and ad free) for weeks. I heart pandora.