Pandora Radio Automated Radio Program

April 23rd, 2009

Music Genome Project is the father of Pandora radio and automated music recommendation program that allows users to select a song or an artist they love before the system can provide similar if not the exact requested results. The music broadcast on Pandora radio can be purchased from sites like iTunes Store or Amazon.com as well as on other Internet websites. The complexity of the music selection system is very high with plenty of criteria analyzed for the song selection. The program attributes have been developed in accordance with some focus traits, and it suffices to say that there are more than 2,000 such traits specific to Pandora radio.

Since July 2008, iPhone users enjoy Pandora radio in its portable form, and statistics indicate around two million listeners. In the UK Pandora radio is hoping to be the main competitor to Dab Portable Radio. Pandora radio is available both in the free and fee-based formats; the advantages of the paid one is that there are no commercials whatsoever, while with the free variant they are included part of the service. Pandora radio like may other stations cannot run without the advertising time they sell to businesses.

The recent legislation passed by the Copyright Royalty Board forced Pandora radio to broadcast for the United States only, and while the terrestrial radios were unaffected by the fees, licensing guarantees and rules, online broadcasters found themselves compelled to limit their activity. Europeans who try to access Pandora Radio get an explanatory notification that their Euro-IP is barred and that the service is available in the United States only. Without this measure, Pandora Radio could not have supported financially the doubling of the fee-per-song required by the Copyright Royalty Board.

Next year, negotiations will continue to reopen Pandora Radio to the rest of the world if the taxes get lower. As a user you should know that rewinding and repetitions are not possible with Pandora system. Then, another restriction that comes with the program is the one that forbids more than six skips per hour. Finally, Pandora radio is not a play-on-demand system, and you will often get music similar to the request if not the exact one. The freedom the user has under the circumstances is to sample songs from a selected artist’s page.