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Pandora Desktop Beta. Discover music from your Dock.

preview mac 20080603 202459 Pandora Desktop Beta. Discover music from your Dock.From the description in their own FAQs;

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you enjoy music you already know, and to help you discover new music you’ll love.

It’s powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken, the Music Genome Project: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians.

Up until now, with a Pandora account, you could only listen to Pandora on the Web, Pandora on the Go, or Pandora in the Home. But it has been announced that you can now discover music from the comfort of your Dock with Pandora Desktop (Beta).

The folks at Pandora do advise users that they have big licensing and streaming bills to pay and thus there will be ads to see. You can always minimize the application if you like, of course. The other concern they express is that people remember that this is beta software and that you are expected to give feedback and feature requests.

With that out of the way, sit back and enjoy the tunes!

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Griffin Announces iFill for iPods – Unlimited songs in your pocket

Griffin Technology has announced iFill, software to record music from thousands of radio streams directly to your iPod. You can choose several stations at once and select from many different genres. With iFill, you can go to bed while charging your iPod, and wake up to an iPod full of new music, ready to go jogging with you — and without having to search through your record collection, browse the iTunes Store, or rip any CDs.

With iFill, you do this:

  1. Open iFill

  2. Select a radio station
  3. Click Record

Done! Fresh music. You wake up in the morning, you’re late and in a hurry (who isn’t?). With iFill, all you have to do is eject the iPod and go! There’s simply no faster way to work it.

The Griffin iFill is $19.99 USD. A free trial version is also available for download.

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