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I tried Spotify once but it was too complex for my tastes... I liked Pandora's simplicity of training a station and being able to be hands off.

• crazygringo 8y ago
  Spotify has a "radio" functionality that is very similar to Pandora's... but vastly more flexible, and with a seemingly far greater selection of tracks to draw from.
  • bhj 8y ago
    Yes, being able to create a station based on an artist, album or song is great for discovery. The stations are somewhat finite and pre-generated, I think (a few times I've seen it outright fail/come up empty with newer niche artists, like it hadn't gotten around to processing them yet) but what it does uncover has been good.
  • djrogers 8y ago
    When I was a Spotify customer, every 'radio' station I started eventually wound up playing crass, offensive, and angry shout-rap, filled with words your drunk uncle never even heard in the Navy. It was very disturbing, and highlighted one of their biggest flaws - no way to specifiy 'clean' music only. Say what you will about artistic integrity etc, but if you're listening to music with a 5 year old in the house and someone starts dropping n-bombs, c-bombs, m-f etc and you have no way to prevent that, it's a problem.
    • crazygringo 8y ago
      Wow, that is pretty shocking they don't have an option to disable that. And looking at the forums, it's been requested for years. Crazy.