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I finally got into Pandora Radio because of its free iPhone version. The application isn't flawless - unexpected events make it have a temporary seizure that makes even the phone's hardware controls unresponsive until it times out - but its normal mode is very impressive. You can start listening to music via WiFi, and then wander off into 3G territory, and it doesn't skip a beat. (Literally.) This is the first implementation of portable internet radio I've seen, something I've wanted since using my first iPod for the first time.
(That said, pulling in continuous data via 3G drains the battery like nothing else. But that's just the price of admission, right now.)
And, yes, Pandora itself is rather excellent. I love the idea of musical-classification "genes". Who knew that I was into extensive vamping? I'm using my jmac@jmac.org email address there, if people wish to connect. (Why, of course it has social-network features.)
(That said, pulling in continuous data via 3G drains the battery like nothing else. But that's just the price of admission, right now.)
And, yes, Pandora itself is rather excellent. I love the idea of musical-classification "genes". Who knew that I was into extensive vamping? I'm using my jmac@jmac.org email address there, if people wish to connect. (Why, of course it has social-network features.)
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Date: 2008-07-18 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-18 03:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, it's a feature of both the Orgy cover of Blue Monday and Ceasars' Jerk it Out. I have no further information.
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Date: 2008-07-18 04:19 pm (UTC)Or I may be deliberately misunderstanding the term.
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Date: 2008-07-18 06:48 pm (UTC)Q: What is "vamping"?
Vamping is a term that refers to extended improvisation over a repeated chord change. One of the quintessential examples of vamping is the last section, or 'outro', to "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, featuring a 5-minute epic guitar solo over some repeated chords.
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Date: 2008-07-18 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-18 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-18 04:35 pm (UTC)('Cause my transistor radio gets approximately infinite battery life, but doesn't play such cool suggestions...it'd be sweet if the iPhone could be counted on to at least replace some of that functionality.)
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Date: 2008-07-18 04:41 pm (UTC)My only data available is that, starting with a full battery, I listened to Pandora for maybe 90 minutes total yesterday, both outside and in, and my battery was in the red by the time the day ended. But I also had a lengthy phone call, and used the iPod, and did other farty-around stuff.
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Date: 2008-07-18 04:50 pm (UTC)I've poked at iPhone Pandora a bit but haven't spent too much time with it because of the battery life.
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Date: 2008-07-18 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: National Boundaries on the 'Net Suxor
Date: 2008-07-19 12:47 am (UTC)