Pandora Radio for iPhone: Customized Streaming Music

Your iPhone is very likely jam packed with all of your favorite tunes--or at least the songs you could fit. But while you may have all the classics, your current audio collection does little to help you locate and listen to new music.

Pandora Radio on the iPhone

That's where the free Pandora Radio for iPhone application sweeps in to help. This Internet-based radio service chooses playlists based on specific artists you're listening to at any given time. You simply sign up for a free Pandora account, log in and start entering artists' names. For each artist that you enter, a new station is created that plays music from the specified band or soloist, as well as similar music by additional artists.

So, for instance, if you enter the band "The White Stripes" and create a White Stripes station, you'll hear a variety of music from Jack and Meg White interspersed with tunes from other similar bands like Franz Ferdinand, Nirvana, Weezer, Led Zeppelin and others.

While playing music, you can skip up to six songs per station per hour, and tag specific tunes with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, to let the application know whether to serve up more similar songs or skip to new artists.

You can also bookmark songs you like for later purchase via iTunes. These bookmarked song- and artist-listings can also be e-mailed to friends directly from the app.

Download Pandora Radio for iPhone (Link opens iTunes)