So I've been using Pandora, and I have a few comments. For a while I was thumb upping songs that I liked; I thought it would play more songs like those. But then I discovered that giving a song thumbs up actually means that you want to hear that song more, and before long, all I was getting were songs that I'd given a thumbs up. So no more thumb upping.
I also found out that giving a song a thumbs down means you don't like the artist, not that you don't like the song. If you thumb down two songs by an artest, you'll not hear any more from them on that station. Bummer! There are some great artists with a few bad songs/CD's; I really think it should be on a song basis, not an album basis.
Lastly, it seems to me that each station can only have a certain amount of songs. Even since I've stopped giving the thumbs up to songs entirely, I have a station that I listen to a lot, and I'm pretty sure it's only playing the same songs over and over. I wonder if that's a lisencing thing. It's really too bad, because I know they have a ton of other musical content, but I'm not getting to hear it. I'm going to try moving songs to other, more narrowly defined stations to see if that gets me more content. If not, it's safe to say I'm done with Pandora.
|