[Zak Reiter]

Pandora, Inc., has been a driving force in the internet radio movement, moving it from today?€™s commercial ridden MTV into a radio that will play you music that fits to your tastes, but leaving out horrendous advertisements.

This program allows you to create radio stations by starting out asking you what kind of music you like. You feed it information, and it immediately begins suggesting songs that you might like based off of that. Honesty is key with this program, because every song that you say you like affects your ?€˜tastes?€™.



Your taste is affected by a simple Yes/ No system of thumbs-up, or thumbs-down. As can be seen in the image, the interface is simple and forthright, and perfectly sleek for the iPhone. There is an option at the top-right which allows you to see why the ?€˜Music Genome Project?€™ has suggested this song, and it?€™s extremely thorough.

If you don?€™t want to listen to a certain song anymore, you can choose thumbs-down if you don?€™t like it, or you can actually just skip to the next suggestion. On the web-based program, there is an option of simply telling Pandora to ?€˜not play this track for a while?€™, but that option is missing from the iPhone application. While very handy, it?€™s rare to have a track play so often that you grow sick of it playing.

Something I found interesting is that you can?€™t actually see how far through the song you are. A few of the options from the site are missing, but it really isn?€™t that large of a loss. The program works extremely well and manages to keep the idea of Pandora secure and complete. Overall, there are a couple options missing, but it is a delightful and full application.

You can find Pandora on the iTunes store, for free.

Something to look for: I noticed that sometimes, when you?€™re skipping tracks, it may load late. A perk of this, though, is that the album art actually unfurls down, like laying wallpaper. It?€™s quite the sight.

[xxx]

Even if you don't have an iphone you can check out Pandora's website. I listen to it every day at work and am even listening to it right now!!!!! Great music selections!

[kellygeorge]

im upgrading to 2.0 as soon as the dev team releases their pwnage tool, but i have a question about this app. i built the iphone dock into my car, and it has the charger cable and the audio jack plugged in to the back of the dock, completely hidden, so i can just dock the phone and it plays through the stereo. will audio from this app play through the dock connector? i remember something about apple not allowing developers access to the dock connector, but i assume since it is audio it should just work like everything else. i hope so, because im getting bored listening to the same stuff all the time, and really looking forward to listening to pandora in the car.

[nic08]

This is cool, thanks for the links.

[WatersWest]

Very nice ... I can't wait. Thanks for the info.

[TDB]

Somehow I had never heard of Pandora before but I tried this app over the weekend and I love it. I have a feeling that this app is going to cause me to spend a lot more money on music. It is one of my favorite apps so far after this weekend of crazy app downloads.

So far though my only concern is the thumbs up / thumbs buttons. I accidentally pushed the thumbs down button on a song I really liked and poof it was gone. There should be some way on the web site (and maybe there is) or some sort of history tab, that you can find songs you rated and change the rating just in case you mess up.

Still love the app. I highly recommend it.

[charlich]

Last FM is better!

[dessine]

I was totally extactic when I first saw this app on the list of iphone apps, I love Pandora. now I just need to get an iphone.

[crazymonkey26]

Great I like to use it in my car, but I get the gsm buzz sound. But other than that it's nice