Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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by timr • 18 years ago

27 15 18 years ago

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icey• 18 years ago

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.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

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.

wallflower• 18 years ago

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.

vaksel• 18 years ago

Pandora is a great product, get to discover a lot of new music because of it.

mattmaroon• 18 years ago

Yeah, I've been wondering when radio was going to start moving over the wireless net. How's the quality on the 3g network?

grag• 18 years ago

apparently pandora is streaming 64kbs audio

woo• 18 years ago

yup, and it's mono. If you want 128kbs and stereo (and want to be able to check your mail while listening) check out ooTunes.

culley• 18 years ago

My buddy went for a 3 mile run listening to pandora on his 3g Iphone yesterday in albuquerque. It didn't drop once.

I bought a phone from sprint specifically to listen to Pandora in my car. I can't get it to play a single song stationary in my driveway.

oh well :(

edb• 18 years ago

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.

sdurkin• 18 years ago

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

falsestprophet• 18 years ago

I have found that to be the case too. This is ironic because (as far as I know) Pandora is powered by data that is manually entered by snobby music junkies employed by the company, while last.fm is powered by data mining.

yago• 18 years ago

One of empirical data mining law in action: quantity of information beats quality.

reggplant• 18 years ago

Its a shame its a US only application, last.fm app is working well though

danw• 18 years ago

Is there any sign of a FineTune iPhone app? I liked their Nintendo Wii interface and I'm disappointed that web on Wii hasn't been as popular as expected

schtog• 18 years ago

Wow why didn't I find out about last.fm before. Friggin awesome service. Have hopelessly been trying to find some good onlineradiostations but having it all in one like this is superb.

Pandora for iPhone will be a huge hit

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