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We had friends over today. Rainer mentioned he’d been interested in Pandora for new music. I wasn’t sure how to stream Pandora over my Airport but sure enough the FAQ told me how to do it.

Five painless minutes later I’m loving Pandora + Airfoil + Airport. I’ve had a last.fm account for a few months but the Pandora experience is prime for instant gratification, at least as far as hearing new music. You give Pandora the name of an artist or a song you like, and in a second you get a custom radio station that plays songs with a similar musical DNA to what you entered.

And it’s free, which doesn’t suck at all.

I’ve been streaming new (to me) music for the past few hours while I’ve been cleaning up the house. Airfoil took it over the top, because it lets you stream audio from any app to your Airport and from there, your home stereo. Very, very happy, although Airfoil has periodically (a couple of times this first day) crapped out and lost the connection to my Airport.