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Opening up Pandora's music box
Created: 07/21/2006
Video description: CNET News.com's Stefanie Olsen takes a spin with Pandora's free music service, a so-called music-discovery engine that lets you find music by your favorite songs or artists and suggests other music with similar sounds.

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