Steven Bryden

They sucked me into the trap. I got this message earlier this week and went with the yearly option. Mainly for the 5hrs before time-out rather than 1hr. Also, no ads is pretty nice. - Ross Miller

http://www.last.fm is pretty good, but definitely not as well done or easy as pandora. - Ross Miller

http://hypem.com/ is more like thesixtyone, but it's good as well. - Ross Miller

Ross: what do you like about Pandora that's better than Last.fm? - Benjamin Golub

Oooh, I never tried thesixtyone, I like that you don't need to log in, or go through any hoops - every song has a Play button, which (shocker!) starts the music. - Tudor Bosman

The UI, mainly. The way my lists are organized. The ease of adding variety to a station. The quick-mix option is great if you want to mesh two or more stations. I used to use Last.fm religiously, but after trying pandora I couldn't go back. - Ross Miller

Tudor: Yeah! Being able to play any song in full is the BEST! I hate it when there's a play button that only gives you a sample of the song. - Ross Miller

I'll pay for Pandora when they release their long-promised Android app. - Tudor Bosman

Hrm, the UI of Pandora really confused me the first time I tried it so I gave up. Maybe I'll give it another shot... - Benjamin Golub from email

Also, I'd pay 3x their yearly fee if they didn't try to limit the number of skips per hour. I know it's part of their contract with the record labels, but what the hell, I want to give them money, they should make it work out :) - Tudor Bosman

Ben: I haven't used Last.fm since about a year ago, so things may have changed, but I was annoyed that I had to keep going back to my profile to change stations. I ended up typing in the artist to the 'listen' box every time. The killer feature of pandora for me is the fact that you can add multiple artists and songs to a station. I couldn't figure out how to do that on Last.fm. I could have just missed it, though. - Ross Miller

Tudor: Do they still limit your skips with Pandora One? If so, that's a bummer :( - Ross Miller

I just checked. Last.fm has a multi-artists station that lets you add up to 3 artists. You don't have to go to a new page either, you just click on "Start a new station" and it keeps playing while you build your new station. - Benjamin Golub

Ross: From http://blog.pandora.com/faq/: Due to the terms of our music licenses, we must constrain the number of "skips" -- the number of times you move on to a new song [...] All Pandora listeners are limited to 6 skips per hour, per station. Listeners to the free Pandora service are limited to 12 total skips per day, across all stations. - Tudor Bosman

Cool! I'll have to give last.fm another try. But back to the main question: What other music sites would you recommend? - Ross Miller

I haven't used http://www.playlist.com/ , but I hear it's pretty good. - Ross Miller

Wow... your Dad was there? Looks um... hot... - Ross Miller

Yeah, he was there... being a chief he doesn't carry hoses anymore, but still busy organizing the 3,000+ firefighters that were called in to help that week. - Steven Bryden