iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Pandora Radio

We’ve long been fans of Pandora on the computer. So we’re practically delirious that this custom Internet radio service is available gratis on the iPhone.

And Pandora is better than ever, at least on the multitasking iPhone, because you can listen to music in the background while doing other stuff. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Pandora works on the iPhone in much the same way it does on a PC or a Mac. You type the name of a favorite musician or song title and Pandora creates an instant personalized radio station with selections that exemplify the style you chose. Figure 17-11 shows some of the eclectic stations we created. Tapping QuickMix plays musical selections across all your stations. Tapping the New Station button, at the bottom of the screen, displays a search field. Tap that field and the iPhone keyboard appears so that you can add a new station built around an artist, a song title, or a composer. You can also select from stations Pandora has packaged together around a particular genre.

Figure 17-11: Eclectic online radio stations from Pandora.

In Figure 17-12, we typed Beatles and Pandora created a Beatles station that includes performances from John, Paul, George, and Ringo, as well as tunes from other artists whose songs are similar to songs by The Beatles both collectively and individually.

Figure 17-12: Creating a new station couldn’t be ...