I'm glad they've seen the error of their ways. I will wait a few days, download the Chorme installer and try again.
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Read the EULA. It's HUGE. (I recommend using something like EULAlyzer rather than reading the whole thing.)
It sure looks like Google Chrome is designed first and foremost to be an advertising delivery system. There is so much legal CYA in that thing, you know they're up to something they figure they're going to have to defend in court at some point.
If you think the fact that Google Search stores your search strings is a potential invasion of your privacy (I do), then you will be amazed at what it looks like they plan to get from their "browser." This is the first install in over a year I actually aborted after analyzing the EULA.
If you liked Yahoo! LaunchCAST (free or Plus version), you will love Pandora. You can create custom stations by entering an artist's name (e.g., Steely Dan). The service then starts sending you music its matching algorithms think is similar to Steely Dan's music (a sound so unique to this day that this is a real challenge for their back-end algorithms).
I dumped LauunchCAST Plus about six months ago because they were releasing buggy versions of the player on a regular basis and their customer service never responded to problem tickets. I now have serveral custom stations on Pandora. I would say about 10% of the stuff they play for a given station is "new" (some indie stuff even gets in there). A simple click of the mouse allows you to give a song "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." You can also "tweak" your custom stations by entering other artist (or song) names.
Even though, initially, your custom station will be named after the artist you gave as an exemplar, you can easily change it to something more generic. For example, I have a station originally named J.S. Bach. Right after Pandora built the station for me, I simply opened my account and changed the name to Baroque Classical. Initially, Pandora was sending me too many pipe organ performances on this station. I can only take so much of that stuff. So, I went into the station edit page and added Andres Segovia to the station's exemplar artists list. All of a sudden, the pipe organ stuff diappeared and I started hearing some really cool classical guitar and lute performances. You have MUCH MORE control of your custom stations in Pandora than you did with Yahoo! LaunchCAST.
The sound quality is excellent (they use the Flash player -- go figure). It's at least equivalent to 128Kbps MP3. There are many other great features in Pandora. But, this response is already too long. Give a try. I think you'll love it.
Did I mention Pandora is ABSOULTELY FREE (although donations are always accepted).
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Read 'em and weap, my friend:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/0247205&tid=158
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/2130233&tid=95
I'm glad they've seen the error of their ways. I will wait a few days, download the Chorme installer and try again.
Read the EULA. It's HUGE. (I recommend using something like EULAlyzer rather than reading the whole thing.)
It sure looks like Google Chrome is designed first and foremost to be an advertising delivery system. There is so much legal CYA in that thing, you know they're up to something they figure they're going to have to defend in court at some point.
If you think the fact that Google Search stores your search strings is a potential invasion of your privacy (I do), then you will be amazed at what it looks like they plan to get from their "browser." This is the first install in over a year I actually aborted after analyzing the EULA.
DuoDude,
If you liked Yahoo! LaunchCAST (free or Plus version), you will love Pandora. You can create custom stations by entering an artist's name (e.g., Steely Dan). The service then starts sending you music its matching algorithms think is similar to Steely Dan's music (a sound so unique to this day that this is a real challenge for their back-end algorithms).
I dumped LauunchCAST Plus about six months ago because they were releasing buggy versions of the player on a regular basis and their customer service never responded to problem tickets. I now have serveral custom stations on Pandora. I would say about 10% of the stuff they play for a given station is "new" (some indie stuff even gets in there). A simple click of the mouse allows you to give a song "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." You can also "tweak" your custom stations by entering other artist (or song) names.
Even though, initially, your custom station will be named after the artist you gave as an exemplar, you can easily change it to something more generic. For example, I have a station originally named J.S. Bach. Right after Pandora built the station for me, I simply opened my account and changed the name to Baroque Classical. Initially, Pandora was sending me too many pipe organ performances on this station. I can only take so much of that stuff. So, I went into the station edit page and added Andres Segovia to the station's exemplar artists list. All of a sudden, the pipe organ stuff diappeared and I started hearing some really cool classical guitar and lute performances. You have MUCH MORE control of your custom stations in Pandora than you did with Yahoo! LaunchCAST.
The sound quality is excellent (they use the Flash player -- go figure). It's at least equivalent to 128Kbps MP3. There are many other great features in Pandora. But, this response is already too long. Give a try. I think you'll love it.
Did I mention Pandora is ABSOULTELY FREE (although donations are always accepted).
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