Rdio's monthly subscription is less than pandoras except it gives you no commercials and unlimited skips and you can download songs that you like.
I also don't understand why people still use Pandora, at least the paid version.
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Rdio's monthly subscription is less than pandoras except it gives you no commercials and unlimited skips and you can download songs that you like.
I also don't understand why people still use Pandora, at least the paid version.
I'm not sure why you took my sentiment to mean I'm an Apple purist. As an exclusive Google Maps, Spotify, and MS Office user, I understand what 'best of breed' means.
As Pandora only offers radio vs. the services that offer both radio and on-demand listening, it appeared that Pandora was a bit behind in the times. Doing one thing well is only going to get you so far. Rdio and Pandora seems like a good combination so I'm excited to see what they have in store.
Before I used Spotify and now Apple Music, Rdio was the first on demand subscription that I had. I was unaware they were in financial trouble. Although I don't use Pandora presently, I'm curious to see how they incorporate Rdio into their current platform.
Ha. Sorry, it's the 'shocked' part I guess that made me think that
I kind of agree with you about Pandora, it seems typical that when you're the first (and best) to do something you fall into a phase of being too big and too slow. That was evident with Apple iPhone 5 for example, which saw Apple unable to be very liberal with the size since they were hung on fixed pixels, they finally figured it out with the 6.
I am hoping Pandora becomes even better with this new purchase
Well, since their blog stated "in the weeks ahead" I'd say a couple months-ish. But given I have to 'train' a new music service, I'll move on long before that.
Apple Music was always my second choice. It costs the same, and the integration is pretty sweet. For instance, I can tell Siri to play whatever I want hands free from the headphone mic. I can also ask her what song is playing and she'll tell me, which isn't available with other services. Really, the only beef I have is how awful the interface is, and how I can never tell what the heck the difference is between my stuff, apple's stuff, and the iTunes in the cloud stuff.
iTunes Radio cannot be played on a Linux system, which is what I presently use (Linux Mint xfce 17.2)...Pandora works just fine for me, and I also use it with my Amazon Echo.
$4/month isn't enough to make me shop around. PandoraOne has no commercials, and all the skips I've ever needed. When I find a track I just cannot live without, I'll go to Amazon, and pay the $0.99 for the MP3. <shrug>
If it is, they've been WAY under-charging me. Maybe their prices have gone up, and I'm grandfathered into the old price? <shrug>
That is a much different experience than dialing up albums from a library with 30 millions songs. Pandora is fine for what it is, but it is very limited in comparison to Rdio or the other music services...which is probably why the bought Rdio.
PandoraOne is indeed $4 per month. For letting it do it's thing all day long, I do like the music stations I listen to. Sure, there are repeats. I even get tired of some songs and down vote them off my stations. I've tried Spotify, lastFM and a couple of other programs - all required me to make lists of songs. As much as I love music, I don't have the desire to create very refined selections.
That's why I continue to support PandoraOne. I do use iTunes radio on occasion - the free commercial laden version.
That's why I continue to support PandoraOne. I do use iTunes radio on occasion - the free commercial laden version.