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Pandora hit by $518.4M loss in 2017 as listener numbers declined
- nugi 9y agoMaybe if they fixed all the bugs with the player. Used to use it constantly, but bugs added up to a worse experince than downloading mp3s like its 1999. The roku app was the last holdout, and then started crashing every 3 songs. I was an early adopter, and really loved the service, even when the channels got to be the same 20 songs repeated. But not working, well, doesn't work. I am sure there are many licencing and legal issues that also contribute, but without a working service, it doesn't matter.
- maxharris 9y agoI switched from a paid Pandora account to Spotify for two reasons: 1. Pandora offered me no way of using their service without Adobe Flash, and they did their best to break open-source players that offered better experiences. (The competition isn't perfect: Spotify uses web tech to render their UI, which also causes perf and interaction issues. If Pandora offered a truly native client, that would make me very interested in considering them again.) 2. Spotify lets me pick the exact song I want to listen to, when I want it.