Comments on: Pandora: Change how you listen to music http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/07/pandora-change-how-you-listen-to-music/ Sat, 19 May 2012 07:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Samuel Huckins http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/07/pandora-change-how-you-listen-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-5662 Samuel Huckins Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:00:41 +0000 http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/?p=1096#comment-5662 @Phil I haven't seen any way to connect Pandora and iTunes, although since I'm running Ubuntu for my desktop I admittedly haven't been looking very much. The problem with unifying them is that for me Pandora is a totally different experience. You aren't listening to particular artists and songs you pick, you are forming a collection of preferences regarding your musical tastes. Using a standard desktop player like Rhythmbox or iTunes for my own collection and using Pandora are very different things, so I myself wouldn't want them to be in the same interface. @Phil I haven’t seen any way to connect Pandora and iTunes, although since I’m running Ubuntu for my desktop I admittedly haven’t been looking very much.

The problem with unifying them is that for me Pandora is a totally different experience. You aren’t listening to particular artists and songs you pick, you are forming a collection of preferences regarding your musical tastes. Using a standard desktop player like Rhythmbox or iTunes for my own collection and using Pandora are very different things, so I myself wouldn’t want them to be in the same interface.

]]> By: Phil Hollenback http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/07/pandora-change-how-you-listen-to-music/comment-page-1/#comment-5644 Phil Hollenback Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:48:33 +0000 http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/?p=1096#comment-5644 One thing that attracted me to last.fm instead of Pandora is the free iScrobbler plugin for last.fm. That plugin allows you to stream your last.fm music to itunes on your mac - I hate having to run another separate app to listen to music when I already know how itunes works. So I started paying the $3/mo. to enable streaming my last.fm favorites and everything to itunes, and that worked ok, except for occasional random connection issues and streaming problems. Still, it worked well enough that I was happy. Last week last.fm apparently changed their api, and iScrobbler no longer works to stream music from last.fm to itunes. Its not clear if anyone actually maintains iScrobbler any more. Thus I am hoping there is another service that streams to itunes. It doesn't seem like Pandora does that? One thing that attracted me to last.fm instead of Pandora is the free iScrobbler plugin for last.fm. That plugin allows you to stream your last.fm music to itunes on your mac – I hate having to run another separate app to listen to music when I already know how itunes works.

So I started paying the $3/mo. to enable streaming my last.fm favorites and everything to itunes, and that worked ok, except for occasional random connection issues and streaming problems. Still, it worked well enough that I was happy.

Last week last.fm apparently changed their api, and iScrobbler no longer works to stream music from last.fm to itunes. Its not clear if anyone actually maintains iScrobbler any more.

Thus I am hoping there is another service that streams to itunes. It doesn’t seem like Pandora does that?

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