Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Pandora: How Long Can We Sing this Song?

Pandora is a wonderful service. If you haven't already begun using this nifty Music Genome based personal radio player, you ought to.

Today I point out one glaring problem with the player :: it does not list the running time of the songs it plays. This information could appear within the individual song box which contains the album art, song title, album title and artist. Or it could appear in the Music controller, which is just a Play / Pause toggle button. Since most media players include total time, as well as elapsed AND time remaining, Pandora would be wise to do so. Hec, even to just mimic iTune's interface.


Another omission is Year of Release. It would be nice to know the year when each song was produced or released. For select songs, it appears in a Detail Page. But for some reason it doesn't appear for most songs. And it never appears in the song's box (above). Pandora invites users to "Guide Us." But, Pandora could do a little more guiding itself.

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