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Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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Re: Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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Post by icey »

I've got Pandora on my iPhone, and it's been the most heavily used application installed on it by far. They did a really nice job with the application. It's very intuitive and the sign up process wasn't terrible. Beyond that, it works great over 3G.

Re: Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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Post by tlrobinson »

icey wrote: post #2

I've got Pandora on my iPhone, and it's been the most heavily used application installed on it by far. They did a really nice job with the application. It's very intuitive and the sign up process wasn't terrible. Beyond that, it works great over 3G.

It's not so great on EDGE (but fine on WiFi, of course)

It's annoying you can't have it running in the background, but that's Apple's fault.

AOL Radio is nice too.

And check out Shazam. It records a snippet of music from the radio, TV, etc and sends it to their servers for identification (it seems to be very accurate). Midomi is another similar app, but no where near as accurate, from my limited testing.

Re: Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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Post by edb »

Hrmm, I have always found that last.fm finds better music based on my seeds than pandora does, especially for a discriminating (read:snobby) music junkie such as myself. I remember they had a last.fm app that was usable with jailbroken iphone/touch, that was much better in my opinion.

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Post by wallflower »

tlrobinson wrote: post #3
icey wrote: post #2

I've got Pandora on my iPhone, and it's been the most heavily used application installed on it by far. They did a really nice job with the application. It's very intuitive and the sign up process wasn't terrible. Beyond that, it works great over 3G.

It's not so great on EDGE (but fine on WiFi, of course) It's annoying you can't have it running in the background, but that's Apple's fault. AOL Radio is nice too. And check out Shazam. It records a snippet of music from the radio, TV, etc and sends it to their servers for identification (it seems to be very accurate). Midomi is another similar app, but no where near as accurate, from my limited testing.

Had not used Pandora prior to the iPhone application. I'm impressed at how well it picks songs that I like listening to. I'm happy the iPhone application even works over EDGE. Pretty amazing. To have access to the jukebox in the cloud. AOL Radio does not seem to work over EDGE.

Re: Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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Post by sdurkin »

edb wrote: post #6

Hrmm, I have always found that last.fm finds better music based on my seeds than pandora does, especially for a discriminating (read:snobby) music junkie such as myself. I remember they had a last.fm app that was usable with jailbroken iphone/touch, that was much better in my opinion.

Yeah, I prefer the last.fm app over pandora. Its even functional over edge.
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