Pandora seeking deals for portable devices
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 1:38 PM
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Pandora, the popular recommendation-driven Internet radio site, has said they are looking to move beyond the PC... and strike a partnership to include the service in portable devices.
Hidden in an article written about Slacker, Pandora founder Tim Westergren said that they are seeking a mobile device relationship. Slacker will bring similar music discovery functionality like Pandora's to the mobile world with its own portable media player this Summer.
Cutting the chord between Internet radio and the PC is vital to the business, Westergren said.
"It's definitely holding us back and we're not sitting idly by," he says. "Our intention is to make radio, period, and to be radio with a capital R you have to be everywhere, you can't just be on the PC."
This is getting interesting.
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So, why aren't Sirius and XM doing this? Throw a large drive in the radio, let it store everything that is already broadcast (no additional bandwidth needed), and let the user build a playlist from their gigantic music libraries. You'd need more processing power, and a clever interface, but they shouldn't ignore the demand for customization, IMHO.
Posted by: RoadRunner ? | May 11, 2007 2:13 PM
Ryan wrote something a couple weeks ago about how SIRIUS/XM should let people listen to regular radio, internet radio AND satellite radio. Add a 30gb hdd for your own songs and that would be the ultimate player ever.
Posted by: xoxo | May 11, 2007 2:18 PM
yes i agree and why arent they doing what pandora speacializes in?
You choose a song or an artist and it creates a station personally for you with new music that fits that category. Great way to stay interacting, and learn about new artists. It has the matching down to a science which im sure is patented, but they could always come up with a new system maybe even better.
Posted by: dave | May 11, 2007 2:28 PM
Could it be possible to integrate our internet logins with the sirius services? Like if I were to login and have the ability to put songs and artists into a list and then turn on my radio to listen to a personalized station just for what I had listed?
Posted by: dave | May 11, 2007 2:32 PM