pandora

Tue
26
Aug
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Closing Pandora's Box Could Hurt Music Industry

Innovative online music site Pandora appears to be on the brink of shutting its doors after failing to find a solution to increased royalty costs. The site's appeal, a 'personalised radio station' service by which users could list some of their ... favourite songs and performers, may no longer be marketable after recent demands the site pay more cash for the music it uses. How does Pandora work? Users rate songs and the Pandora system (looking at more than 400 attributes including tone, pitch, style, speed, instruments used and so on) would then play similar styles of music. The technology was ... (view more)

Wed
18
Jun
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'Pandora Radio', and 'Iso Cd Burner'

Pandora Radio With the Pandora Desktop Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from your desktop without opening a new browser window. Easily see what's playing with one click from your tooltray/dock. Conveniently pause, play and ... change stations. Quick start to begin listening to Pandora. Requires download of Adobe Air as well. http://www.pandora.com/desktop Iso Cd Burner Simple tool to burn a CD from an.iso file. No need to pull out the big guns just to burn an iso. http://bouchez.info/ (view more)

Fri
11
Jan
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UK Licensing Rules Slam Lid On Pandora's Box

The Pandora Internet radio service will stop broadcasting to British listeners after the 15 January thanks to a dispute over royalty payments. The site plays music based on the listener's favourite artists or tracks. It analyses songs for musical ... styles, pace, tone and instrument to find similarities between tracks. Users can give a thumbs up or thumbs down to each song they hear (similar to the way TiVo works), decisions that directly affect what new songs will be played in future. The idea is to create a radio station customized for the individual listener. In the United States, licensing ... (view more)

Tue
26
Jun
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'Visual Tooltip', and 'Pandora Recovery'

Visual Tooltip Visual Tooltip makes it possible to show a thumbnail of a window by putting the mouse cursor over a taskbar button. http://chsalmon.club.fr/index.php?en/Visual-tooltip-about Pandora Recovery Pandora Recovery is a powerful free tool ... that provides its users an effective way to attempt recovery of permanently deleted files. Pandora Recovery actually recovers files permanently removed from Recycle Bin, files originally deleted using Shift + Delete keys bypassing Recycle Bin and files deleted from DOS prompt. Pandora Recovery is not a backup tool; it can recover files that have been ... (view more)

Thu
26
Oct
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'Open Pandora', and 'Febe'

Open Pandora Open Pandora is a Windows desktop front end for the Pandora music scheme. Features include: hide to tray; popup tray notification balloon; full control from tray icon; control with multimedia keyboard; global shortcuts; mini Player; ... integration with Last.fm; integration with Microsoft Messengerl; integration with Xfire; lyrics, and more. http://openpandora.googlepages.com/ Febe FEBE allows you to quickly and easily back up your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you ... (view more)

Fri
18
Aug
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'Auto It', and 'Pandora'

Auto It AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in ... a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 out of the box with no annoying "runtimes" required! You can even make compiled executable scripts that can run without AutoIt being installed! http://www.hiddensoft.com/ Pandora ... (view more)

Wed
19
Apr
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'Pandora', and 'Tomahawk'

Pandora We love this one. According to the site, "Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. It's powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. ... Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe. We take your input (artists, songs) and feedback ("I like this", "I don't like this") and use the Music Genome Project to create stations that play songs that are musically similar to what you've ... (view more)

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