I listened to Pandora from about 2001 until December of 2009. However, I grew tired of trying to add continual variety to my stations. I was constantly up voting, down voting, creating one big eclectic station, creating homogeneous stations and mixing per my mood. After a while, it seemed that despite my efforts I was hearing the same songs over and over, day after day. Then the adds began. At first it was just an add or two here, maybe one an hour. Long story short, I felt like I was hearing advertisements every 3 songs or so. F*** YOU PANDORA! I intentionally go out of my way to avoid advertisement. I loved Pandora because it was everything that local radio wasn't. None of the corporate radio crap! No degenerate DJ's blabbing for hours, no commercials, no lame top 40 play list.
So what do I listen too now? Radioparadise.com! Listener supported, no advertisement, eclectic and you can stream at 192 kbs (which aint half bad
). Do I love every song I hear? Nope, but I like it that way. Lots of new music, lots of classics. Also, KEXP out of Seattle is very good and available online.
My personal belief is that, at least for me, listener supported and commercial free radio via the 'net is saving music. Fight the system! Stop listening to corporate radio, stop buying your music one song at a time from itunes in some crap lossy format.
I'm done ranting for now.