Pandora - Free Version

Got home and had a mail from the ever friendly Tim Westergren from Pandora, explaing they have now created a new 2.0 version that has (or will soon) have a free AD supported version, or you can subscribe to get rid of them, I'll give it another go and see how obstrusive the ads are, I still like the idea and concept behind Pandora but lately I simply haven't been home enough or on a decent connection to make use of it sadly.

Hopefully he wont mind me pasting in the body of his mail to give context

This email arrives at your doorstep after much internal debate at Pandora. We were torn between abiding by our earlier promise to never email you again, while also wanting to at least let you know about a very significant change in our service. We hope you don't mind.

Thanks in large part to all of the great feedback we received during the preview, we have had an incredibly successful public launch. The sheer volume of new listeners has led us to accelerate our timetable and release Pandora Version 2 today.

In addition to many new features (bookmarking, station editing, playlist improvements, etc.), Pandora v2.0 includes a free, ad-supported version. Listeners have the choice to subscribe and stay clear of ads, or use the free service, which will gradually incorporate advertising. What does this mean for you? You can now come back and listen to Pandora as much as you'd like for free--and all the stations you've created remain intact.

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