After the initial step of creating a station around your favorite artist or genre, you never have to go looking for the music you love with Pandora.

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Pandora on the Hopper allows customers to easily search for their favorite artists or songs and create personalized radio stations that play only the music they love from the comfort of their homes.

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With all due respect, I really do not see how Didier Drogba, fantastic football player that he is, can be classified as influential or for that matter Youssou Ndour, much as I love his music.

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Are they in love with Iron Maiden or is it heavy metal as a music genre that's really captured their hearts?

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Whether it's music you've purchased on your smartphone, a music app on your tablet, listening to songs through the living room TV or turning to Internet radio on your PC at work, the music you love is scattered across different services.

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Short of moving to France, you can just rip your music from CDs, avoiding the DRM issue in the first place (or if you just love DRM, be prepared to carry extra batteries).

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If you love to play games, watch TV and movies, surf the Web or listen to music, there has never been a better time to be on Xbox.

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