Pandora: A Gift from God to us.

Pandora. What more could you ask for in an app or a free, ad profit website that requires no monthly fee or membership? This is a free radio that takes the time to get to know you as a music lover and all of your tastes.

This website was created by Will Glaser, giving the “gift” of music to the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. The “gift” refers to the Greek mythology tale of Pandora’s box. The internet radio is what most people consider one of the greatest gifts because it has a broad selection of music all similar to user chosen genres, styles, artists, songs, and albums.

 For example: I selected Whitney Houston’s radio and got songs ranging anywhere from Whitney Houston (of course) to Mariah Carey to Tina Turner. It’s like a real life radio in a car or on a boom box: you can’t choose what the station plays, you can only choose to listen to it if you like what’s playing!

If you happen to not like a Pandora recommended song in one of your stations, you can give the song a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down” showing your strong liking or disliking to it relating to your original radio station. If you happen to like the song but just aren’t in the mood to listen to it at the moment, you can skip it to the next recommendation. But you only have a few skips in that particular station per hour. That is a drawback to the internet radio, but, on the other hand, how could you complain?

Outside of being able to rate their suggestions, you can also read and learn about other similar artists. When the song comes up, you see the title, artist, and album. From here you can bookmark the song or artist to listen to later or you can buy or track the song on iTunes. Underneath all of that you can read all about the artist. Where they are from, their story, and all of their successes.

Bottom line: Pandora is the stuff! Nothing better than Pandora in terms of pure music and personal preference for it. I give Pandora a thumbs up all across the board! Now I should probably get back to my ever so personal Lee Ann Womack station. (385)