[abrigham]

So... I made an interesting observation regarding the sound quality... for the last 45min or so, I've been listening to it at work, during my lunch break... Normally, as I move around the building where I work, I get varying degrees of signal strength and quality. It seems the quality of the stream is directly related to this. It seems that Pandora actually checks your connection speed/quality at the beginning of each song and tailors the stream quality based on your connection speed at THAT moment and uses that bit rate for the entire song. This is based on the fact that as I moved around the building, my sound quality changed from song to song. When I stopped in a spot where I got a good bit rate and stayed there for several songs, they all came thru sounding good. Now, there is a distinct possibility that i'm way off base here, but that's how it seemed to me after a bit of observation.