Free Personal Radio Station

So you like music? You'd like to listen to similar songs and groups and perhaps hear something new?

You need to try out Pandora.com. Basically you enter an artist or song title and Pandora first plays you what you entered. The next song is a song that shares "similar qualities" to what you initially selected, on a song by song basis. So creating a "Metallica" station will first bring up a Metallica song, but the next song might be a Nirvana song. Nirvana the group may not be the same style or genre as Metallica, but the two SONGS that are picked will share similar features. It is important to remember that the songs will be similar, not necessarily the genres.

It sounds odd, but just try it out. It's free, and you may find some bands you didn't know exist. Read about Pandora's Music Genome Project and see why and how they do what they do.

Also, if you don't like a song that's playing on your created "station," you can click on it and say so (or click the "Guide Us" button while a song is playing). Feel free to skip songs too. If you have a free account with them, that song won't show up on that station again. And you can create as many types of stations as you want, as well as combine different types of music on a single station.

If you like a song, click it to get a link to the album or purchase it on iTunes. Very cool idea...

Let me know what you think about it.