With the trusted recommendation of a friend of mine (Thanks @michaelramm), I’ve subscribed to and downloaded the Pandora One desktop app. It’s been one of the easier apps to install as it does so with the Adobe Air Installer and runs under this as well.
Did I mention I installed it on my Linux Mint laptop? 
After first setting up a station and naming it, adding some music to it I prefer (Classic Rock), it’s all set. Pandora suggests songs and artists I might like and all I have to do is give it a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ to continue. I can even bookmark certain songs or artists I like. How’s that for cool? And all for $36/year? Now, that’s way cool!
From what I can tell, it’s not too bad on the processor in my HP dv9335nr laptop either. From the screenshot below, you can see what it was pulling while Firefox 3.5.7, Twhirl, Gedit and Pandora was running along side of it.
Now, this app will run on Mac as well as Windows. Linux was also named but with all the many different distros available, they couldn’t support it. Pandora DID however, provide a page for helpful suggestions on how to best install it so they weren’t leaving us Linux folks out in the cold. Another way cool point when considering what type of music app to use.
Just as an after thought, this also will enable me to free up some hard drive space by eliminating my Music folder if I wanted to. So far, Pandora One has been playing all my favorites anyway. So, why need the space used for Music? Add to this the fact that subscribing to Pandora One also eliminates any break in the stream with an ad and so on, you have one sweet music app that will be there with you all the time. How’s that for way cool?
Pandora also is available for mobile too! 
How do you get your music fix?
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This is one of the 80’s classic rock bands that I will never forget watching or listening to back in the day. With some of the popular tunes like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Love Bites” it just takes me back. Back to good times, good friends and a time that I was convinced would never end.
Scott Wilson is an avid Linux user who enjoys testing different distro's of Linux from time to time, the occasional SciFi show and classic rock music. He's also an avid supporter of Open Source software and an Auburn Tigers fan.
