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With relatively little effort (one afternoon of listening and “voting” for particularly poor or good songs) I was able to “tune” www.pandora.com to play a steady stream of trance music that perfectly matches my desired sound background for coding tasks.

I’m not particularly picky about my trance, so that may be part of it, but I did have as many thumbs down as up the first day. Now that I’ve been listening off and on for about two weeks, I’ve had very few thumbs down. Not a lot of thumbs up either (every time I’ve identified one, it was already marked with a thumbs up.)

My experience with creating a “nothing but Rush” station hasn’t worked as well. It would play a fair amount of Rush, but never got to the point where it played nothing but Rush, which is what I was hoping to achieve. My tastes in the “rock” genre is far more specific, so perhaps it needs more training? Don’t know. Although, it did suggest some nice Steve Morse, someone I’d completely forgotten about.

All in all, a big thumbs up for Pandora!