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Originally Posted by slappytwotoes (Post 1840765)

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?!?

couple years ago I read that google doesnt care about adblock, because 4% of the webs traffic uses it.

So be glad that nobody knows about it! :)

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Originally Posted by slappytwotoes (Post 1840765)

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?!?

Adblock blocks in-stream commercials in Pandora (and doesn't just leave an awkward silence)? I'm impressed, never knew it could do that.

Either way though, I'm happy to pay for Pandora. It's a small amount of money, I want artists to get paid, and I want Pandora to not fail as a business. $5 (or whatever it is now) a month isn't much to pay for that.

Of course it helps that I'm a Linux user, and the Linux Pandora client (Pithos) allows for infinite skipping. Without that I might not be as much of a fan of Pandora.

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Originally Posted by slappytwotoes (Post 1840765)

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?!?

I use adblock, you know I said I use the desktop app. right?

Adblock is for the browser... :/

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Originally Posted by loramin (Post 1840531)

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

This

Although Spotify is really nice for listening to a single artist/song, and checking out shared playlists, Pandora's station customization options are what set it apart from Spotify's. Personally, I've found that I seem to prefer the variety that Pandora throws in with the stations I create versus Spotify's selections, but that's just me. Additionally, Pandora's unpaid version, like Spotify's, will select a limited number of songs and throw them on repeating playlist, so in that respect, they are equal.

I am supporting Tidal because I like worker owned co-ops and I feel like this is the first step in the right direction: music artists owning their own distribution methods and having a larger percentage of profits gained from music streaming services