In Time For Your Listening Pleasure
You go up the stairs, turn to the right and there is my office — a room with no soundproofing as it sits over a busy model shop. Some days I try and mask the noise of lathes and grinders by bringing in my CDs. But that ends up with me having to tote more stuff back and forth between work and home. Today I think I may have found a solution that doesn’t involve ear plugs. In one of my newsletter from CNet.com, I read their high recommendations for site called Pandora.com.
Pandora.com is based on a Music Genome Project. The idea is that you pick an artist or song that you want to hear and the site picks a set of related songs. As each song plays, you give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. This causes Pandora to begin building your ideal radio station — playing the music that you want to enjoy on a continual basis. Even with my eclectic taste, this worked out great. After a few selections, I was listening to songs that I was in the mood for. Later on in the day, I picked a completely different genre and set up a second radio station which worked out just as well.
Now I should mention that our company uses a very restrictive firewall that prevents audio and video streaming. Yet, I had no problems, noticed no delays or interruptions in any of the music that played. This was very impressive!
I just thought I’d pass this along for your listening pleasure. Since Pandora.com also have preset stations for the holidays, this may be ideal for you if you’re sitting at your desk or visiting family for the holidays and you don’t want your uncle to play his record of “Grandma got run over by a reindeer” for the millionth time.
