Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
3tunes automatically records the songs Pandora plays for you and saves them in the format of artist – title.mp3. We’re obviously talking about transcoded tracks here, but it’s a nice way to grow your collection and maybe listen to that track a couple of times more before you decide you really like it and go [...]
BusinessWeek runs a piece on Tim Schaaff, Sony’s Senior VP of Software Development: the man who left Apple to undertake a huge task—make Sony’s software work. That means bringing the various departments closer, giving more power to software developers and keeping a low profile so as not to collide with the rather autonomous hardware engineers.
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Y! Music vs. Pandora vs. Last.fm vs.Soundflavor: obviously a bit biased since it’s written by the director of personalization for Yahoo! Music, but still a good wrap-up of what each of these services has to offer. What Yahoo! has got going for it is the huge amount of listener preference ratings they’ve collected over the [...]
New sharing features for Pandora: you can listen to samples of the members’ favorite tunes, add their stations to your list, subscribe to their latest stations or faves via RSS, etc. Read our presentation of Pandora, and remember, they’ve introduced a free version a couple of months ago.
Pandora, an amazing, out-of-this-world music discovery service now has a free version available.
As explained in their FAQ: “Pandora is available in two forms. Both versions have exactly the same features. The first form is an advertising-supported version which is entirely free. Over time we’ll be incorporating ads into this version of Pandora.” (The other one [...]
Pandora is an innovative music discovery service that just launched this week, trying to answer the critical question “can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?”. We had a chance to beta test it before it opens its door to the public, and according to our first impressions it gets the job quite [...]