Comments on: Pandora May Turn Off Its Streams: Do You Care?

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By: SomeSound-MostlyFury

SomeSound-MostlyFury — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:14:24 +0000

I never found good recommendations on Pandora, but Last.fm never did well either. The best part of Last.fm is/was "neighbor radio," which played favorites of people whose interests were most similar to yours. That stream gave me more new bands than Pandora ever did.

@owenmeany: I like Slacker, too. For a site whose main gimmick is the portable radios that they sell, they give me better recommendations than much bigger sites.

By: cheesebubble

cheesebubble — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:08:29 +0000

I dabbled with Pandora in its earlier days but was unimpressed with a lot of its recommendations. So if it dissolves into the ether I’m unaffected. I forgot all about it but with the news of an impending demise, I’ve read quite a bit about it as of late. Obviously a number of people enjoy Pandora so it’s too bad that the service may go the way of the dinosaurs. And yet something’s bound to rise from the ashes and fill the void. There are a lot of smart, enterprising people out there in computer technology land.

By: themiserabilist

themiserabilist — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:43:25 +0000

I’ve always liked Pandora and my feeling is that the more you stick with it and rate the songs the better it serves the curious listener. But it won’t be long now before every music-related online resource (radio, stores, etc.) is using similar parameters to help drive more RIYL results. In fact, Pandora could possibly sell off its database of song attributes in the way that All Music sold off band profiles and album reviews. (If they’re not already, that is.) The larger problem here is advertising on the internet. With rare exception it just doesn’t generate the revenue that other (older) media can and mixing the two in cost structures (i.e. Pandora and SoundExchange) just can’t make sense until advertising begins to pull in the money that it traditionally generates in other media. Pandora’s user base is sizable enough that their survival shouldn’t be in question, but it’s a sign of how far we still have to go to figure out how to get this whole internet thing to play nice with the rest of the media world.

By: DJorn

DJorn — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:38:24 +0000

I’ve used it a few times, liked it, never got addicted, know people who love it. To me, the biggest problem here is that if the new rates put Internet stations out of business (and if one as big as Pandora goes, they’re all going), that means zero money for artists. A classic case of the music industry shooting itself in the foot, eliminating profits by trying to maximise them.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:44:29 +0000

@TheContrarian: Totally agreed. (Especially about the 'faith forum' being ludicrous. Oy.)

By: TheContrarian

TheContrarian — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:40:40 +0000

@Rev.Keith: SoundExchange is not the devil. They are also not RIAA shills. The board is balanced between the indie and the mainstream sectors.

They certainly erred in their initial push for one-size fits all webcasting rates. But as it has been previously been pointed out, Pandora doesn't have the right to legislative protection of a wobbly business model.

That said, Pandora is an innovative, interesting application that no doubt exposes people to new music that they may theoretically pay for. If prohibitive royalty rates cripple this type of service before it has a chance to stabilize, we lose yet another enticement to the legal online accessing of music.

Instead of being split into camps spitting apocalyptic nonsense at one another, the two factions should work in earnest to come up with a solution that not only serves the interests of business, but also those of the artists and fans.

How this might be accomplished is, as Obama ludicrously said in that equally ludicrous *faith forum,* "above my pay grade."

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:37:34 +0000

Yeah! What SHE said!