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This has to be the most useless beta software

Posted by Steven Hodson in Tuesday, June 3rd 2008      

pandora_desktop_app I don’t mean useless as in it doesn’t work – well maybe it does but for anyone outside of the US it is totally pointless to download the new Pandora Desktop Beta since we can’t even access the music recommendation service. For those of you who don’t know of Pandora it is an excellent service that streams music based on your likes and dislikes of previously played tunes.

The problem is that because the music industry has been so anal with their licensing anyone outside of the US is faced with a notice if they try to join or log into Pandora that the service can’t let them join or play any music. I was lucky enough to have been a member before all this music industry bullshit and I really liked it. More often than not I was being turned onto new music from artists I hadn’t heard before and might have gone on to buy their music – not now.

So even though the US seems to think that it is the center of the entertainment world the fact is that there are far more people outside of the US that love and listen to all kinds of music. We also love finding new stuff to listen to and for this Pandora was a great service that I really miss. Chances are to that their new desktop player is something that I would have been using the majority of time I’m at the computer – not now

The software might be good and it might help find new music but not now and that makes it useless for the larger majority of the world.

Too bad.



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