RIP spotify

[Bohab]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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...

[JayN]

Originally Posted by Bohab [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...

garbagify your life for a low fee and all your personal info what a steal of a deal bro, carryon.....

[Bohab]

Originally Posted by JayN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

garbagify your life for a low fee and all your personal info what a steal of a deal bro, carryon.....

rofl you sir are naive if you don't think your "free" pandora account isn't creating a lil JayN database [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] you're on the internet sir, don't pretend your off the grid!

[Ravager]

Not classic.

[Freakish]

I listened to Spotify radio for a day. It played 3 different versions of gotye somebody I used to know then two versions of that popular fat girl song before I gave up and went to my collection.

[iruinedyourday]

I seriously doubt jayz has the artists in mind.. He surely has a select few artists in mind, but thats it.

[Oleris]

the people in the video received 3% equity with jay z getting the remaining amount. I wouldn't be surprised to see record labels pull music from spotify and pandora.

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by Oleris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the people in the video received 3% equity with jay z getting the remaining amount. I wouldn't be surprised to see record labels pull music from spotify and pandora.

for sure, this is going to be a shitty time to be a music streamer.. Its so frustrating all the bullshit that you have to go through to just listen to music.

I am 100% positive that Tidal will pay indipendant artists exactly the same as Spotify pays them now, and this super group of artists they brought out on stage will get a huge huge huge return...

all while we'll be forced to not listen to bands that sign to spottily, not listen to bands that wont sign to title and insist on selling albums still (Tswift!!) and being forced to subscribe to like 5 different music streaming services just to be able to listen to Springstene & Daft punk back to back...

its going to suuuuuuuuuck...

[Errakus]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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 completely agree with your Pandora review. In my opinion for listening to a "radio" station that isn't spamming the same songs over and over again Pandora is far superior to Spotify... I do like that you can listen to individual songs on Spotify though.

I pay for Pandora and wouldn't for Spotify. (I like the desktop application Pandora has.)

[slappytwotoes]

Originally Posted by Errakus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I pay for Pandora and wouldn't for Spotify. (I like the desktop application Pandora has.)

You can know you just install adblock and never listen to an ad on Pandora again right? Its free and blocks Youtube and website ads too.

How do most people still not know about adblock by now?!?