Pandora is a music discovery service. You tell it your favorite songs or artists and they give you a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe. Scoble has also some explanations.

For now it’s an invitation-only service, but luckily a friend just sent me an invitation. So I tried it and created a channel by giving “Beatles” as the starting point. And I got a full evening of great music, many songs I didn’t know actually. Really cool!

The Flash-based interface works great and is really good looking (even shows you the cover of the song you’re listening to). Once it will be out of beta, it will cost $36 per year, $3 a month is a pretty good price for such a value. For me buying music on iTunes or on CD is too expensive (I don’t value music that much). A solution like Napster music rental would be fine, but it still takes a lot of time to find the music. Pandora has just the convenience of the radio, but the perfect radio station.

Some, including me, have called podcasting a radio killer. But in fact such a service replaces it much better. I think I’m even not going to take my iPod to work anymore.

Now they need to find a way to get this working in my car.

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