Radio Broadcasting

Lab Exercise 9: Radio Broadcasting

Pandora

Lady Gaga Radio

1. Lady Gaga-"Lovegame"

2. Taio Cruz (Ft. Ludacris)- "Break Your Heart"

3. Britney Spears- "Toxic"

4. Rihanna- "Disturbia"

5. Lady Gaga- "Boys Boys Boys"

Paramore Radio

1. Paramore- "Emergency"

2. Fireflight- "Core of My Addiction"

3. Flyleaf- "Missing"

4. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- "Face Down"

5. Paramore- "Fences" (Live)

Paul Potts Radio

1. Josh Groban- "Per Te"

2. Glacomo Puccini- "Turandot Opera"

3. Howard Gregson-Williams- "Arrival At Asian's How"

4. Frencesco Sartori- "Time to Say Goodbye"

5. Luciano Pavarotti- "Forever"

House of Pain Radio

1. House of Pain- "Top O' The Morning To Ya"

2. Cypress Hill- "What Go Around Come Around, Kid"

3. Beastie Boys- "Girls"

4. Onyx- "Slam"

5. House of Pain- "Shamrocks And Shenanigans"

Keith Urban Radio

1. Keith Urban- "Making Memories of Us"

2. Tim McGraw- "Something Like That"

3. Kenny Chesney- "Don't Blink"

4. Rascal Flatts- "These Days"

5. Keith Urban- "Your Everything"

Evanescence Radio

1. Evanescence- "Imaginary"

2. Linkin Park- "Leave Out All the Rest"

3. Three Days Grace- "I Hate Everything About You"

4. Poumb- "In My Arms"

5. Evanescence- "Sweet Sacrifice"

Last.FM

Lady Gaga (Pop Genre)

1. Lady Gaga-"Money Honey"
2. Rihanna-"Rude Boy"
3. Kesha-"Take it Off"
4. Christina Aguilera-"Keeps Gettin Better"
5. Eva Simons-"Silly Boy"

Paramore (Rock Genre)

1. Paramore-"Whoa"
2. Automatic Loveletter-"Shut Your Mouth"
3. Hey Monday-"Set Off"
4. Boys Like Girls-"Broken Man"
5. Avril Lavigne-"When You're Gone"

Evanescence (Alternative Genre)

1. Evanescense-"Imaginary"
2. Linkin Park-"Leave Out All the Rest"
3. Three Days Grace-"I Hate Everything About You"
4. Plumb-"In My Arms"
5. Evanescense-"Sweet Sacrifice"

Paul Potts (Pop Opera Genre)

1. Paul Potts-"Nella Fantasia"
2. Luciano Pavarotti-"O Sole Mio"
3. Andrea Bocelli-"Silent Night"
4. II Divo-"O Holy Night"
5. Jose Carreras-"Pel Tev Amor"

House of Pain (Hip Hop Genre)

1. Funkdoobiest-"Rock On"
2. Cypress Hill-"Lick a Shot"
3. Das EFX-"Jussummen"
4. Lordz of Brooklyn-"American Made"
5. The Psycho Realm-"The Big Payback"

Keith Urban (Country Genre)

1. Keith Urban-"Making Memories of Us"
2. Jason Aldean-"Big Green Tractor"
3. Kenny Chesney-"I Go Back"
4. Dierks Bentley-"How Am I Doing"
5. Tim Mcgraw-"Southern Voice"

Summary

For this assignment I once again had the pleasure and privilege to work with Miss Crystal Castaneda and Miss Taylor Miller. We worked together to compile the list of artists and then collect the data from the two websites: Pandora and Last.FM.

The list of artists that we selected are restated below along with their specific genres:

1. Lady Gaga - Pop
2. Paramore - Rock
3. Evanesence - Alternative
4. Paul Potts - Pop Opera
5. Houst of Pain - Hip Hop
6. Kieth Urban - Country

The first three artists on this list are from the United States and female. The last three are male and are international artists.

Overall the experience of using the two different websites was fairly straightforward and simple. We simply entered the name into the websites search box and then listed the results that it produced associated with that artist. The we would listen to part of the song and then skip to the next one. This eventually became a problem with Pandora because it restricts the number of times that you can skip tracks. Pandora claims this is a result of licensing issues but Last.FM didn't have a limitation at all as far as we could tell.

Another interesting note is that both websites did a good job of keeping in with the genre of the requested artist. Pandora would also deliver song lyrics along with the song. Last.FM delivered photos, videos, and information about the artist.

Using these two services was an interesting comparison. None of us had actually used Last.FM at any length before and we were fairly impressed with the offerings of that website. Pandora while well known can be frustrating because of the limit on the number of times that one can skip tracks. Overall, we would agree that there is a very healthy competition between these two companies. This will drive for further innovation and an increase in song libraries which will in turn render the end user or consumer as the overall winner.