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"Interface and algorithms are still major shortcomings"
Pros: Pandora has suggested and enormous amount of new tunes to me, and over a third of them have been real winners.
Cons: Two-thirds of the suggestions suck, making me wonder about the folks profiling the attributes of the music database. Genome garbage in, genome garbage out. Plus the interface is brutally slow switching from regular station to QuickMix.
Summary: You shouldn't be limited on skips during the first two months of use, as you attempt to educate the data base. You shouldn't be assessed a skip for putting a tune on hold for a month. When you thumb-up a tune/artist combo, Pandora should occasionally play that track, not always offering up 'similar' things that aren't really similar. All-in-all Pandora has potential. The interface is better than Slacker but I find myself liking Last.fm better.
