Saturday, March 04, 2006

Pandora and Songbird

Listened with interest earlier this week to CBC as I heard the local afternoon program. They were discussing online music services:

Pandora is an online service that currently (sadly) is only available in the US - it asks you what kind of music you would like to do a search for, and then creates a radio channel with just that style of music in it. Tried it out, it works great. Hopefully they get this setup for Canada very soon.
Apparently, there is also a way to hook this up to your stereo! It's called Squeezebox. Check out both of these links!

Songbird is a Media Player with a significant difference - it's Open Source. Anyone who has used Open Office, Mozilla or Thunderbird will find this interesting. Give it a bit more time, and this will give Real Player a Challenge!

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