Pandora.com - unbelievable music site

This site is for music lovers. I came across it today, and I think its amazing. You will too.
The site works in an amazing way. What you do is pick an artist or song you particularly like, and the site will find similar type of music. The site will then make you a playlist of this type of music and play the songs, one by one! The whole song! Not snippets or 10 second promos. The whole damn thing! Best of all, its absolutely free and 100% legal! Its basically internet radio, with customizable playlists.
www.pandora.com

WOW. thats amazing. great quality streams as well, and all the recommended music is what i like! also clever way to get around copyright laws. bare in mind if you sign up you need to be in the us, like me ;) .
thanks very much for the link

I'm speechless. :D

Thanks, usil!

Been using this for 2 weeks now, its amazing :D

What setting do I need to adjust to get the site. All I get is white space where the player should be not much else. I renamed hosts to hosts.abc to see it that was it and that didn't work. It doesn't have restricted site on the bottom of my explorer, just says unknown zone (mixed).

Make sure that you have Flash version 7 or 8 on your comp.

Beautiful site usil. Thanks for sharing with us. Am listening to Julio right now.

Haven't been there yet but I'd be interested to see what compares to U2, not much in my opinion although people have suggested, REM and Coldplay.

I'd agree with some Coldplay but REM ?????????

My wife actually said the latest INXS single sounds like U2 ?

P.S. Got my tickets to the Sydney concert on April 1, queued for 10 1/2 hours overnight, but it was worth it.

It is a good site to play with for the time being. I don't know about some of these artist you pick and they try to match rhythm, sound, and vocal. Some are off the chart in difference. Still fun though. :p
Thanks. :cool:

I'm home from work and checked the version of flash I have is 8. Just to make sure I went to macromedia and they said version 8.0.22.0. Still only get the white box. While at it checked shockwave also and is version 10. Am unsure what else to check. Any other suggestions?

Check pop-up blocker, firewall and spyware program settings; make it a trusted site if necessary.

I don't have a pop-up blocker, other than the one on google toolbar, but disableing it to allow pup ups doesn't bring it up. I can't see it being blocked in sygate firewall, it says pandora is allowed. Unless it's spyware guard blocking it. I also made it a trusted site and even said allow the cookie that it keeps blocking. Went into internet options, security, custom to make sure active x wasn't being disabled on trusted sites. Spyware blaster doesn't show it listed in restricted any more than my restricted in ie does. What would it be called other than pandora in spyware blaster? It can't be listed in restricted zone anyway or it would not have let me enter it in trusted. I'm at a real loss as to what else to check. I almost forgot, it doesn't appear to be listed in spybot either. I get everything on the page and any of the links I click on the bottom of the page but not player showing on pandora.com.

imadreamer2
I see in your sig you're using Win98.
Take a look at the system requirements.

I'm using W98 SE, IE6, 256MB mem, AMD proc, running Agnitum Outpost firewall, Popup killer and tracks eraser, BHODemon, AVG PE, and spywareblaster. I did nothing to tweak for showing this pandora site.
Still works fine for me.
I hope you find your reason quickly. Has to be a setting missed somewhere. :cool:

I tested Pandora on 98SE, my new ME install, Ubuntu and XP Home--works well on all of them. May have more to do with your hardware than your OS.

It's pretty good. I like the editing features.

Guess, I will have to ask my computer dad what hardware he put in that might be giving me a problem. He might know.

That was amazing. Thanks usil. I'm going to give the url to my daughter too.

Thanks, usil. Pandora is great. Good quality sound, nice editing features, easy to use ... it's way, way better than the one I've ben using ... the lame-mo Yahoo-LauchCast which gives low quality sound (the free one) and its web page is ugly, busy and jammed w/ ads.

This is awesome. Maybe a 40 GB quota on my Internet plan isn't big enough after all. :D

For those that liked this site...

last.fm is quite similar. You have to download their player in order to hear music. Personally, I prefer Pandora, but I read an article where the author favored last.fm.

thanks for the link!!! having fun....miss the old Napster!!! :p

Looks like they work differently -- Pandora is based on analysis of the music, and Last.fm is based on what other people are listening to.

Thanks for site Usil

Posting on this as a greenhorn in December was a little premature.
Since then, I've found this site to be one of my major sites to play with.
With all the crap about pirates, I find no probs finding almost anything I want.
I listened to the whole CD of one of Richard Pryor's comedy routines and more.
George Carlin or you name it and it's there.
Sweet. Hope it lasts. :cool:

I received a very frustrating email yesterday from Pandora's founder.

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Dear Pandora listener,

Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora's streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.

It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape allows.

We show your IP address is '82.166.55.120', which indicates you are listening from Israel. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email.

Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.

Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener's country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.

We will be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. We will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.
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-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)

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Having problems.
I put www.pandora.com into my Trusted Sites (to allow ActiveX controls to run.) (Actually, the same things described below happen if pandora.com is taken out of the Trusted Sites.)
I turn off IE's popup blocker for www.pandora.com.
Using IE7 I go to www.pandora.com
I get to the screen shown in the attachment. (This appears after a progress bar suggests that Pandora is loading, but obviously it has not.)
I click on "How do I do this?" and read
"1. Reinstall Flash. But I already have the absolutely latest Flash Player (Version 9,0,45,0) installed. I reinstall it anyway.
2. Right click on the gray Pandora Tuner and select "Settings..."

3. Click the second tab (the folder icon) at the bottom to reach the "Local Storage" menu.

4. Drag the slider all the way to the left (0 KB), click "OK," then "Close."

5. Now reload the page by clicking 'Refresh' / 'Reload' from the browser toolbar (usually located between the 'Stop' button and the 'Back'/'Forward' buttons).

6. You should get a message complaining about Flash Local Storage not being enabled (I get the same window as in the attachment), and then click "Allow."

7. Refresh the page again by clicking 'Refresh' / 'Reload.'

8. Click the small white "log in" link toward the bottom right and log in with your Pandora account information.

I do all the steps through the first part of #6. (As mentioned, the message window I get is the same as before. It is not clear whether I should be getting something different.)
But, perhaps most importantly, there is no Allow button to click. (There also is no IE Information Bar message.) So I cannot go any further.
I also did all of the above using Opera as the browser. Same result. Similarly I turn off Zone Alarm firewall. I disable Norton AntiVirus. Same result.
No "Allow" option. (I did find an Allow button on the Camera&Microphone tab, but it is already set to Allow.)
Can anyone help? Am I supposed to pre-register somewhere first?

I'm using Flash 8, have the cache disabled and am not registered but it works for me.

It does say that registration isn't necessary for first time users (which I am not)... maybe try deleting cookies and try again if you've used the site before.

Needless to say I'm in Canada but it works even though it says it's not supposed to.

Me too Fink. I guess they haven't implemented it yet.
And I don't think you need to register unless you want to save your stations.

Sorry to read of your bad and mad news re. Pandora and it's demise for you and others around the world. It is a great avenue for good music with each listener being their own DJ. I listen to it almost daily.

Sorry to hear your bad luck about Pandora Usil. I've just started listening within the last couple of months and it really is great - it was soooo good to be able to axe Sammy Hagar! (Never have liked his stuff.)

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Originally Posted by Welshjim

Having problems.

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Don't know if this will solve the problem but, it might:

1. Run Adobe's Flash Player Uninstaller
   http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_14157
   
   
2. Go to Secunia's Online Software Inspector
   http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
   
   
3. Click the "Start Now" button. On the next screen, select (check) "Enable thorough system inspection" then click the "Start" button.
   
   
4. When it's done, ("Inspection successfully completed" pop-up), scroll through the list looking for any instances of the word "Flash". If it's not found, skip down to Step 5 below.
   
   If it is there, it should show you the location of the file such as:
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Macromed\Flash\Flash7a.ocx
   1. Highlight and copy ([Ctrl-C]) that line. (Not the line above, the line on Secunia's screen).
      
      
   2. Go to a CMD prompt, (click Start | Run, type in cmd and press [Enter]).
      
      
   3. At the command prompt, type del, skip a space, type in a double-quote character ("), right-click any blank space in the CMD window and select "Paste", type in another double-quote character (") and then press [Enter].
      
      In other words, using my example location line above, the command line would look like so:
      del "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Macromed\Flash\Flash7a.ocx"
      
      
   4. Type exit and press [Enter] to close the CMD window.
      
      
   5. If any more instances of "Flash" were found on Secunia's list, repeat steps "a" through "d" above to delete all of them.
   
   
   
5. Reinstall Adobe's Flash Player
   http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...h&promoid=BIOW

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Originally Posted by usil

I received a very frustrating email yesterday from Pandora's founder.

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:mad: :mad: :mad:

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Have you tried through a proxy?

Go to http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm , type in:

http://www.pandora.com

and click "Start Surf!".

?

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Originally Posted by SpywareDr

Have you tried through a proxy?

Go to http://tools.rosinstrument.com/cgi-proxy.htm , type in:

http://www.pandora.com

and click "Start Surf!".

?

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Interesting, it worked, but it didn't. The page started to load, but I didn't get the box with the music.

EDIT: I tried it with the ABC website as well and it would work there either. Looks like it won't work with Flash?

Here's another trick for you.
I been listening to Pandora for a few month now.
I went to Newegg and got a small FM transmitter that is used with an MP3 player and plugs into a USB port for power, a splitter to plug into the speaker out jack so I can connect the speakers and transmitter into the same output. Now I can listen to Pandora in every radio in the house including my woodworking shop, our 3 season room and the bath room:>).... LOVE IT

Even if I was to do that, you still get the transmission off the internet, so I wouldn't think that would work.

On Pandora's web site it says "US listening only"
http://blog.pandora.com/faq/#79

Yes, thats what I pointed out in post #26.

Spyware Dr--Thanks for the suggestion in your Post #32. Unfortunately, it did not work (though Secunia did find two old flash files).
I also tried your suggestion in Post #33 just for the fun of it. Also no change.
I will try contacting Pandora.

That's too bad Usil :(


I love using pandora