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Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different g

Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different genre. They also have tons of small, high quality bands. The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one. It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the adobe air desktop app is lightweight and responsive. Nice bonus: you can have up to 2 or 3 computers streaming music on the same account simultaneously. Seriously, I cannot emphasize enough how awesome Pandora is. Windows 7 in the US; YMMV elsewhere.

randallsquared 15y ago
On Linux and the Mac, the command line Pandora client "pianobar" works really well, and while API updates break it, it's always been mere hours before it was fixed, in my experience.
- larsberg 15y ago
  If you're on a mac and want something in the menubar (or whatever they call the thing on the top), try PandaBar. Very nice, has keybindings, and the dev adds features requested as quickly as Apple will turn around updates through the App Store.
meeeu 15y ago
I've been using Pandora since before they went public and just love the service. Prefer the old Flash version better than the current one but it is good none-the-less. I noticed Spotify on Facebook and became interested in trying it. Evidently I knew very little about Spotify because I thought it was a web app. Long story short never did try Spotify because I didn't want to download client on every machine that I work on. Pandora is still the best solution to the 1 playlist anywhere problem for me.
tallanvor 15y ago
Pandora is nice, but I refuse to pay for a service where I have to vpn to the US in order to be able to use it. I'm also not overly impressed with the Android app. --It works, but it's not wonderful.
- ryanhuff 15y ago
  Pandora on android routinely skips songs half way through for me. Its unusable.
pnathan 15y ago
Pandora contracted with Facebook and started showing what my friends were listening to (I had used the same emails in both). That same day I quit Pandora. At that point in time, they did not even have a mechanism to kill your account, so I had to email the company personally. I quit my Facebook account not long after. I refuse to willingly partake in a surveillance society.
- ryanhuff 15y ago
  Are other people seeing this? I use the web interface all the time, and deliberately avoid services that force Facebook sharing/integration.
  - socillion 15y ago
    It certainly isn't forced, but it is probably enabled by default if there is a facebook account with the same email. http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disconnect-pandora-from-facebook http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disco...

randallsquared 15y ago

On Linux and the Mac, the command line Pandora client "pianobar" works really well, and while API updates break it, it's always been mere hours before it was fixed, in my experience.

larsberg 15y ago
If you're on a mac and want something in the menubar (or whatever they call the thing on the top), try PandaBar. Very nice, has keybindings, and the dev adds features requested as quickly as Apple will turn around updates through the App Store.

meeeu 15y ago

I've been using Pandora since before they went public and just love the service. Prefer the old Flash version better than the current one but it is good none-the-less. I noticed Spotify on Facebook and became interested in trying it. Evidently I knew very little about Spotify because I thought it was a web app. Long story short never did try Spotify because I didn't want to download client on every machine that I work on. Pandora is still the best solution to the 1 playlist anywhere problem for me.

tallanvor 15y ago

Pandora is nice, but I refuse to pay for a service where I have to vpn to the US in order to be able to use it. I'm also not overly impressed with the Android app. --It works, but it's not wonderful.

ryanhuff 15y ago
Pandora on android routinely skips songs half way through for me. Its unusable.

pnathan 15y ago

Pandora contracted with Facebook and started showing what my friends were listening to (I had used the same emails in both). That same day I quit Pandora. At that point in time, they did not even have a mechanism to kill your account, so I had to email the company personally. I quit my Facebook account not long after. I refuse to willingly partake in a surveillance society.

ryanhuff 15y ago
Are other people seeing this? I use the web interface all the time, and deliberately avoid services that force Facebook sharing/integration.
- socillion 15y ago
  It certainly isn't forced, but it is probably enabled by default if there is a facebook account with the same email. http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disconnect-pandora-from-facebook http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disco...