I swear, Pandora is spooky. I typed in "Rush", and got just a few Rush tunes, and every other damned thing they played for two hours is stuff I love. Even played one of the greatest tunes ever, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

Im too cheap to pay for pandora.

I listened to my Rush channel last night... only had to thumbs down one song and skip another.

this happens way too often and the end result is that I will be hunting on eBay for a cd that i want (but probably don't need) again...

There's an app for that I think it is shazam

They prolly don't dig you sucking up all that bandwidth.

I still prefer Pandora as my go-to, because (a) I've invested a lot of time training it, (b) it plays .wav files (which is exactly what you hear when you listen to a CD), and (c) I've never once had it stall. When I use up my monthly free time, I often switch to last.fm or slacker, but more often I just switch to internet radio.

Since these days I'm on the road, out of town, and out of country a lot, I've been more heavily using web radio, as Pandora is not available in most (all?) overseas countries (due to copyright arrangements with BMI or ASCAP; I forget which PRO Pandora uses). Most of the time I just fire up my preferred web radio app for Android (streamfurious), pair the cell phone with my foxL via bluetooth, and bypass the computer altogether--most streaming works fine for me on 3G, and I just blow off the hotel wifi pay service.

http://www.soundmatters.com/foxl/ 

I've been loading different bands, trying to stump it with fringe acts such as Alice Donut, and it keeps churning out tunes.

I've got to say that my favorite is th Joe Cocker station.

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