{"id":91,"date":"2006-02-20T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmediatrends.fdim.fujacks.pil.dk\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:09:10","slug":"pandoracom-is-music-to-my-ears-new-service-and-business-model-selects-and-plays-your-favourite-music-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/pandoracom-is-music-to-my-ears-new-service-and-business-model-selects-and-plays-your-favourite-music-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandora.com is music to my ears \u2013 new service and business model selects and plays your favourite music for free"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is really cool! Go to Pandora.com<\/a>, type in your favourite music artist and start listening: Pandora now brings you track after track \u2013 full-length – of music resembling that of the artist you entered. From it\u2019s huge music database (I think almost all US music\u2019s there!). <\/span><\/p>\n

Rate and improve playlist
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>You can finetune Pandora by giving each track it plays thumbs up or down \u2013 and Pandora immediately adjusts its playlist. <\/span><\/p>\n

For \u201cfree\u201d
\n<\/strong><\/font><\/span>What\u2019s really cool is that Pandora actually is really good at this \u2013 and it\u2019s free! That is \u2013 there\u2019s this advertising edge to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

First you have the choice of accepting ads or paying a premium of 3-4 $ a month.<\/span><\/p>\n

And secondly, every track played goes with links to direct download at iTunes \u2013 or to buying the whole CD at amazon. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Innovative business model<\/strong>
\n<\/span>In this way Pandora explores the new business model landscape for online music. In fits very nicely between the other business models out there. <\/span>On the one hand Itunes<\/a>, eg., works by selling you the individual tracks and albums to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand you have Yahoo music<\/a>, which allows subscribers to the service to download and play all the music you want. And lets you listen to it as long as you have a valid subscription. Prices: 5-7 $ a month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandora\u2019s subscription-based \u2013 but only allows you to listen to the musicstream itself \u2013 not to download and play at your mp3-player. Pandora is an online radio playing only tunes of your own taste.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually Yahoo also has a customizable radio like this on their shelves<\/a> (so its not really quite new). But Pandora’s goes for this one only and does a great job of selecting music you really like to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is really cool! Go to Pandora.com, type in your favourite music artist and start listening: Pandora now brings you track after track \u2013 full-length – of music resembling that of the artist you entered. From it\u2019s huge music database (I think almost all US music\u2019s there!). Rate and improve playlist You can finetune… L\u00e6s mere »Pandora.com is music to my ears \u2013 new service and business model selects and plays your favourite music for free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}