Since I've been working in an office environment again I checked out Pandora for entertainment, a few friends of mine have been talking about it for some time with mostly positive reviews.
At first I created a few stations, each with a single artist/band as the seed (Fatboy Slim, Brandi Carlile, Buddy Guy, etc.). It impressed me with the music it played based on that, and the thumbs up/thumbs down way of giving it further hints is very nice. The main complaint friends have is the limit on the number of times per hour (or whatever the time period is) that you can skip or thumbs down songs, but that hasn't caused me too many problems.
One great solution: Make a station called 'Crap' or 'Trash' or whatever you'd like to call it, and move songs into it once you've reached your limit on thumbs down. The downside is it doesn't give the service the feedback, the upside is you don't have to listen to it and won't get fed up with the site.
I've been trying to build up a single station that captures my... eclectic music tastes. I'll probably add more specialized stations for specific moods (if Pandora goes on a female jazz vocalist binge while I'm in the mood for techno, which happened yesterday), but first I'd like to see if I can get one station that has widely different styles of music in it.
My profile on the site is: http://www.pandora.com/people/andrew5500
My eclectic station: http://www.pandora.com/stations/574435a78a3300efe8dd6b24d9130cac425ba2910f7abf8b
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