Comments on: Music Public Radio: Not Safe http://gravitymedium.com/2009/12/17/music-public-radio-not-safe/ opinions on media, business, publics, government, and technology Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Proffitt http://gravitymedium.com/2009/12/17/music-public-radio-not-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-1014 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:04:16 +0000 http://gravitymedium.com/?p=928#comment-1014 Thanks for the comment, Rob. I’ve been using Pandora for music discovery, too, and most stations are too tightly programmed for my tastes. Or at least they used to be — back when I was listening!

Pandora has gotten me to spend real money on new music in ways that radio never has. That means something, I think.

Still, if a station can find the right music mix and build the right audience, it may very well work out.

]]> By: Rob LeFebvre http://gravitymedium.com/2009/12/17/music-public-radio-not-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:48:07 +0000 http://gravitymedium.com/?p=928#comment-1013 “I gotta say, I don’t get public radio music stations. Even before the iPod’s introduction in 2001, I was “self programming” music for the most part, jumping around genres and artists via CDs in the car and even mix CDs of my own creation. Today I would never listen to a music radio station. I have so much music of my own it would be a virtual “waste” to listen to someone else’s stuff.”

I listen to radio, public or on-air, internet or not, to hear music that I don’t already have or know. I subscribe to Paste Magazine for the same reason. One of the main advantages Pandora and services like it has, for me, is that music discovery benefit. I don’t want to spend my life playing the same songs I already own over and over.

As for the rest of your post? I agree. I also hate over-specializing my listening, as with super niche systems like XM Radio.

Great post. Thanks for the thoughts!

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