How to Find New Music on Pandora.Com Internet Radio

Finding new music on Pandora.com is an easy and enjoyable experience. The user is given many options for finding new songs or artists depending on their own musical likes and dislikes. Pandora also guides the user through the search so only basic internet skills are needed.

About the music:

The "about the music" search bar provides you with an area for searching by song or artist. From this search bar you can search by genre, mood and style as well. You are also able to search stations created by other users of Pandora radio to gain from their experience and findings.

Using your station:

When a particular song is playing two search areas will appear under the title. The first is the "add variety" button. This is used for adding more artists or songs to your station. When this search bar is displayed there will be a suggested artists list on the right hand side to give you choices you may not have considered before.

The second portion of this search area is simply titled "options". Under this bar you have the option of finding other fans of the particular music you are listening to. In the fan section you will find the groups or music styles that these listeners enjoy. By looking through these listings you may find new groups that you have never considered or heard of but may enjoy through the similarity in musical gene.

Create a new station:

As soon as you begin to type a title or group into the search bar in the create a station section, a list will form of all similar titles or group names. If you do not know the exact spelling, complete title or artists name you have the opportunity to scroll through the suggested listings. This can be very helpful for finding a song or group that you heard on the radio but were unable to get the complete name of.

About the music:

This is the section on the page that will give you more information about the group you are listening to. By using this information you can find out what type of musical style you are listening to and other groups will be suggested that are similar in musical style giving you additional choices of new music to listen to.

Genre stations:

Another search option on Pandora.com is the genre search. From this box you may choose from a large variety of musical types. Stations are listed in categories of Alternative, Blues, Children's, Christian, Classical, Country, Dance, Jazz, Oldies, Reggae and many more. By clicking on one of these preferences you will find sub-category listings. Clicking one of the sub-category links will take you directly to music in that group. While the selection is playing you will have an information bar that will appear to explain the particular music selection and why it was chosen. This can help you in determining the gene that the particular music fits into for further choices.

Finding new music on Pandora.com is not difficult. The difficulty comes from the incredible number of choices that you will be given and the amount of time you can spend on your musical adventure.