I’ve rediscovered Pandora. First I noticed it appear on my ROKU box. I see it’s also available on Google TV. Pandora grew out of the ‘Music Genome Project’. It’s a pretty nice way to listen to music … music you likely already have in your library intermixed with similar music that Pandora finds for you, some from artists you may not have heard of. I’d gotten in the habit of browsing ‘similar artists’ while in on Amazon.com. Pandora takes the work out of it and saves you from possible future carpal tunnel syndrome from using this serice. So with a ROKU box or Google TV hooked up to your nice stereo system, it makes for a very nice way to take the headphones off, kick back, and do something ‘offline’ like read a book or magazine. Pandora is still ‘online’ of course.
It’s not something that you actually watch, but I often do leave the TV on so I can fine tune my ‘station’ with some selective ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’. I’ve not yet done much experimentation, but I may try to do more than one station based on exactly the same artists but choose up tempo vs down tempo song selections for the 2 versions.
I started with this station based on Ceu (brazilian with some elctronica mixed in) and added some African artists I like as well. You are welcome to ‘take a listen’ here at http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh143342416227699431
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