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Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows

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Re: Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows

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Post by new_hackers » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 2:33 AM UTC

lancefisher wrote: post #11

squiguy7 wrote: post #2

I have found Pandora's selection frustratingly repetitive and looked toward using other services because of it. I have made a bunch of radio stations and cycle through them but they always have the same songs mixed in. Now that I have Spotify premium, I see no reason to use Pandora again. Spotify has radio if I want to use it or I can just turn on any song or album I want. That's a big plus in my opinion.

I used to measure Pandora channels in TTC or time to Coldplay. Every station would get there over time.

I don't get there on most of my stations. Maybe you just like Coldplay?

Re: Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows

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Post by upbeatlinux » Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

Pandora's repetitiveness can be frustrating at times especially for long time users of the service. The best option I've found found when creating new channels is to use "Add variety" and avoid the thumbs up / down rating. In this way I still hear new music and although there are repeats those are fewer and far between. If I want to tailor a station to genetically similar songs I then use thumbs up / down.

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