While it may have been the opening of Pandora’s Box that gave us all the woes of the world, you should have no such worries when opening Pandora Radio. The only things likely to come out of Pandora Radio are the soothing notes of a Bach sonata, a rock classic from the Stones or just about any other type of music you might enjoy.With access to millions of songs, Pandora Internet Radio isn’t likely to get boring anytime soon. And the best part is that rather than choosing a song or a preprogrammed station, Pandora creates stations just for you, based on your taste in music.

Let’s say you really like Bob Marley. Normally, your best bet would be to find an Internet radio station that plays mostly reggae and hope that it plays some Marley while you’re sitting there. But with Pandora, you can search for Bob Marley, and your new custom station will start playing the awesomely compelling beats of Bob Marley straight away. But that’s not the end of it, not by far.

Your new station will start off by playing a selection that exemplifies Marley’s musical style. From there it will begin playing songs that have been determined to have a similar or complementary style to that of Marley’s.

If you like a song, click the little “thumbs up” icon, and Pandora will play more music that is similar to what you liked. If on the other hand you don’t like a piece of music chosen by Pandora, click the little “thumbs down” icon and Pandora will never play that song on that particular station again.

The more you listen to Pandora Radio the better it will get at predicting what kind of music you like in a certain genre.

While it may sound simple, and in practice it is, Pandora radio utilizes the extremely complex algorithms designed for “The Music Genome Project.”

The project essentially breaks music down into over 400 individual attributes that can be used to tell if one piece of music is truly similar to another.

This is a huge step forward for those trying to understand what music is really made of; but for the rest of us it means really good, adaptable, customizable Internet radio.

To start using Pandora Radio, go to Pandora.com and set up your free account so that Pandora can keep track of your likes and dislikes, as well as the music stations you’ve created. Pandora even has the option to send you to the iTunes Music Store if you want to buy a song you just heard played. If you’re interested, Pandora will also tell you more about the music you’re listening to.

Pandora Radio is simply one of the best Internet radio stations available. So do yourself a favor, log in, sign up and rock out.