Personally i like just putting pandora on and letting it go. If i want to pick and choose what i listen to then i will open my music folder on my PC and play it.

uhh... yeah spotify has a built in radio feature that is exactly like pandora...

So what your saying that its almost as good as free pandora and now its pay service? :eek:

its still free. the radio feature is there for dolts that would typically flock to pandora for music. the fact you can pick pretty much any song you can think of on the fly, listen to entire albums, and listen to shared playlists (which tend to be better than any AI radio program) and create your own playlists without paying a cent makes it 10x better imo. you can also create offline playlists...

so you think that streaming lossless between 2 recievers retains audio quality? You think that your audio device DAC or the speakers/phones you use isnt altering that audio data? it almost always is, and streaming is always going to do something negative to your audio

take pono for example, its getting slammed because they market the quality being akin to vinyl, and neil young claiming the algorithm in which audio is converting to data is flawed and leaves things out.

if you want to hear what an artist intends you to hear, go see them live.

forgot to add this about pono, it uses the same kind of DAC as a computer just adds a nicer preamp to it, even though the preamp is pretty mediocre.

Yes. Just because it is a wireless stream does not mean it must be lossy.

You are correct in regard to the DAC/output/etc. I stated that my main concern is getting the highest fidelity audio delivered to me. How I deal with it from there is on my head.

Incorrect.

There is a reason the artists create and record albums.

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 :D

Yeah and i already use pandora so no reason to switch to spotify.

If they get enough big wigs and musicians on board and get them to only use this service, and nothing else, it could be big. Idk tho.