Pandora

I’m wondering how many people I know are using Pandora. I’ve been more into it lately. At my regular coffee shop, the music used to depend completely on who was working. They’d pop in their iPod with some playlist. So if I liked what they liked, all was good, otherwise I’d crank up my own iPod.

But the two people who work mornings these days use Pandora instead. It’s usually a station based loosely on Ella Fitzgerald so I like it. If you aren’t familiar with Pandora, in it’s simplest form you pick one artist, album or song that you like and Pandora builds a continuous music channel of similar songs.

I have a pretty full iPod, so I had always thought I didn’t really need this. But it’s nice to hear songs in the genre that you like that you don’t have.

I was in the mood for a Latin jazz groove, so I just put Cubanismo in for Pandora and got a great selection of stuff I had never heard before.

And with iPhone and Android apps, your phone can be a mobile personal radio station. Makes me think back to when I was a kid. Mobile music meant one of those boxy AM/FM pieces of crap with the headphone that only went to one ear. My how times have changed…