Just was listening to the Holiday Jazz station on
Pandora.com watching the snow come down and saw that it is now
available for mobile. I'm sure it's a major battery suck and either requires some signifianct memory use for buffering or is really subject to the data transfer rate - but it's still cool. It more or less solves the problems I have with phone-as-mp3-player.
a) I don't want to carry anything large enough as my phone to make it useful as an MP3 player (although I will admit the iPhone is pushing that limit)
b) I don't want to have to think about what I put on my phone. And since I don't want devote enough carry-every-where-I-go meat-space to something large enough to have a decent selection of music on it, I posit that I would always be unhappy with the music on my device.
But, if I could take all my pandora channels with me where ever I go - killer! Then again doesn't work on the subway so there goes 90% of my player time. Oh well.
If you're interested in the "Jazz Holidays" station try starting a new station with that as the search term. Oh and as you'll see below, they also do classical music now.