A Music Lovers Crisis

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head, one that you desperately had to hear? What would happen if you couldn’t find the song or CD you were looking for. No need to panic. Pandora is here to the rescue.

Or are they.

Pandora, what many would call the “death of the radio” showed some signs of imperfection.

For those who don’t know, Pandora is a personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites. You can create customized web playlists that attend to your listening needs. It lets you choose an artist and it picks similar artist to complete those playlist.

“OAKLAND, CA—The headquarters of personalized online music provider Pandora remained in a state of chaos Thursday as frantic workers struggled to find a song that 32-year-old Boston subscriber Dave Lipton would enjoy.

Pandora, which allows users to create virtual radio stations according to their individual tastes, confirmed its employees had spent most of the day rummaging desperately through the miles of shelves in the company's massive 700,000-CD storage facility in search of a track to appease the increasingly fickle Lipton.”

Lipton skipped and disliked almost every song he heard. Over 2,900 employees tried to please the listener. As an attempt to satisfy Lipton, Pandora brought in special weapons.

“By noon Thursday, Pandora had decided to bring in a panel of genre-bending musicians to act as consultants on the Lipton case, among them Beck, newcomer songstress Janelle Monáe, and retired avant-rock musician Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart.”

Even then, Dave was hard to make happy. Pandora reinsures users that although the radio station has dealt with difficult users in the past, most subscribers are content to listen uncomplainingly to whatever the song-selection team chooses.

As an avid listener of Pandora, I can say, they do an outstanding job of selecting songs catered to users preference.  I have many playlist, ranging from all genres.

Read the full article here:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/desperate-pandora-employees-scrambling-to-find-son,17905/

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http://www.pandora.com/

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