Not sure why they took a bad-luck name – there’s a story there, but Pandora is one fun, free, simple and non-intrusive music player.
A product of the Music Genome Project, you tell it what artists you like, it finds similar ones and creates “stations,” much like Slacker and others of its ilk. But it’s a clean interface, and you sure can’t beat the “TURN IT UP” fidelity of the streaming music, at least on my broadband.
I also love the bio backgrounds on artists, always fun.
I’d been meaning to give Pandora a try – am glad I have, and now heartily endorse it for you, too;-)