Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows
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Pandora Shares Plummet as Competition Grows
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#2I 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.
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#3It really surprises me that Pandora hasn't been able to negotiate dramatically better rates than Spotify et al which allow random-access listening. Pandora is competitive mainly with radio, not music purchases. Spotify competes directly with record sales.
I've been a very loyal paying Pandora customer for a long time, but now that it's up to $5/mo, I'm seriously wondering whether paying just $5/mo more for Spotify would be worth it.
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#4I 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 have found that if a station gets stuck, liking or disliking songs will get it to play different ones.
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#5It really surprises me that Pandora hasn't been able to negotiate dramatically better rates than Spotify et al which allow random-access listening. Pandora is competitive mainly with radio, not music purchases. Spotify competes directly with record sales. I've been a very loyal paying Pandora customer for a long time, but now that it's up to $5/mo, I'm seriously wondering whether paying just $5/mo more for Spotify wo…
Considering they had to cut their services (including subscribers, with no refund at the time because it was a "soft" restriction, so when they started IP blocking you had no case) to virtually every major market at one point in time or another, and is now currently available only in the US and Australia I'm surprised they are still in business.
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#7I 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.
One feature that I really wanted when I used Pandora was the ability to create groups of stations that stay out of each other's musical territory. Add a bias against songs that are a better fit on other stations in the group and a bias towards songs that fit best on the current station.
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#8I was a paying Pandora customer until I hit their limit for the number of stations one can create. I'd made 100 stations, tried to add one more, and it wouldn't let met. Then I went to Rdio, and I've been happy ever since!
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#9I 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 have found Pandora's selection frustratingly repetitive
It's such a stupid reason for businesses like this to fail because of conservative licensing strategies for music.
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#10I 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.
Is there a fundamental difference between Pandora and Spotify Radio? Do they pick songs somehow differently?