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Pandora, the good old days. Using some USA proxy to get it in Europe and using some obscure downloader to save the best songs before music streaming was the thi
by BonoboIO 4y ago
Pandora, the good old days.
Using some USA proxy to get it in Europe and using some obscure downloader to save the best songs before music streaming was the thing.
The recommendations where perfect! For any genre.
It was a solved problem, Spotify sucks really bad at recommending things. Weekly playlist are rubbishy and the radio feature is also not really good.
- arcturus17 4y agoI used it from Spain and I don't remember even needing a proxy in its earliest days. I think the IP issues and fencing came later... I've considered trying it nowadays but I think one also needs a US card - way too much friction. I'm curious if it's still a good tool for music discovery.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoThere's an entire industry of pluggers and marketers doing whatever they can to get tracks on those Spotify playlists. And also businesses which link artists to playlist curators - for a fee, of course. There's no sense in which they're an organic reflection of anything at all. Pandora was never big enough to suffer much from that problem.
- hackernewds 4y agohttps://www.pandora.com/about/mgp https://www.pandora.com/about/mgp