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Originally Posted by loramin
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Actually as a long-time Pandora user who switched to Spotify for about 6 months ... and then switched back, I promise you Spotify is not exactly like Pandora. Spotify's radio station algorithm will play the same 20 songs over and over and over again. You can create new stations, but there's no way to combine them in to one station or listen to a mix of all of them (both things you can do on Pandora).
So both services will let you make a station based off an artist, but Pandora's will have more variety and (far more importantly) Pandora will let you create multi-artist stations and let you play a mix of all of your stations. Spotify can't do either.
Also, Spotify mixes censored music in with normal music far more than Pandora, which is really annoying. Really the only thing Spotify has going for it is it's ability to hear specific songs (which you can just do on Youtube), and a slightly wider library (which doesn't matter when you can only hear a very small number of songs on any one station).
Of course, nowadays I spend at least half my listening time in the Project 1999 room of Plug.dj [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
I used Pandora for several years and I would hear the same songs over and over on my stations... I switched to Spotify cause I found they had far more variety when it came to the radio... so our experiences couldn't be any different. Once I discovered the shared playlists and I haven't used the radio option since.
I dropped the 99 cents for 3 months of Spotify Premium during a promotion and I love it. I won't be going to any other source for music. I use to use youtube for single songs but now I can't stand it. Every time I put in a song I get an add and the quality always has to be adjusted. I just can't agree that using two platforms (pandora/youtube) vs just using Spotify is a better option. But w/e use what you like...