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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
What are you using to base your radio? Artists? Tags? I find Pandora's radio to be far less accurate and varied, and not to take into consideration when an artist changes their style over the length of their career (and thus smack a track of hip-hop Beastie Boys in a punk station simply because they used to play punk).
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I normally start with an artist. While I do agree that Pandora isn't as varied, it's only that way if you don't "add variety" to the stations and "like" every song that comes off. If you don't do that, it starts changing things up a lot. Also very handy for Christmas music [:
iTunes crashes a lot for me, but I'm running it on a laptop that is running XP, has an almost-filled hard drive, and two versions of Age of Empires installed on it, so that may be the reason for the crashing. It certainly slows down the computer, though. And let's not get on the CDs vs. digital debate, but I do get most of my music from iTunes, when I can get the giftcards. Buying a 20-track album for $9.99 is much cheaper and more convenient than getting the same album from Borders (I also don't have the time or the car to go out and actually buy CDs, but I probably would if I could so that I could use the music elsewhere). I was just greatly disappointed when they raised a lot of the songs to $1.29 instead of $.99, it certainly drains my balance quickly.
iTunes is also not just for music any more: as new iPod models come out, more things become available, such as TV shows, Podcasts, Movies, and games. I'm not familiar with the app store - I don't have a Touch or an iPhone - but I agree that as the iPad evolves, a lot more things will become available, and they'll be iPad-exclusive.