While I like all the songs on my iPod, I get bored listening to them repeatedly. I'm always wanting something fresh and new, but can't always go onto iTunes and spend my hard earned money buying music. I got to put a roof over our heads and food on the table. And, frankly, the XM stations suck. While they introduce new music, their rotations are tight and you end up listening to a handfull of songs over and over and over again. It gets old quick.
My music boredom was solved when my graphic designer introduced me to Pandora.com -- radio from the Music Genome Project. It's bad ass.
Basically, a bunch of musicians and music analysts got together over a couple of years and started really listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting about 400 musical details from every song, including melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics, etc. So after registering at the site, you can create personal radio stations based upon your favorite artists. You drop in a name and it scans its entire world of analyzed music -- new and old to popular and obscure -- to find songs with musical simularities to your choice and the result is the creation of a new station. You can grade the music to further personalize the music played on the station. You can make multiple stations based upon genre. For example, I have a jazz station, but I also have a rap station. I like a variety of music and whatever I'm in the mood for, it's there for me.
It's so cool.
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