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I think this is the issue. 10,000 employees vs bad user experience. Spotify has gotten worse for me as well, I pay for Spotify + SiriusXM. Spotify should be

I think this is the issue. 10,000 employees vs bad user experience. Spotify has gotten worse for me as well, I pay for Spotify + SiriusXM. Spotify should be much better, but it's not. I'm thinking of dropping it soon. Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

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prox 3y ago
This is why I went with Apple Music. Apple being a hardware company first makes it that they just want to provide a good portal to music. Thus far I have been happy with it.
apwell23 3y ago
> I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist? Can you describe the criteria ?
coldpie 3y ago
Just try a different service. There's a zillion of them out there, all more or less interchangeable. Maybe one has the feature you want.
erellsworth 3y ago
I'm not sure how specific you want your criteria to be, but you can create a Spotify "radio" station based off of any song, band/artist, or playlist. Spotify's discovery capabilities are miles beyond Pandora, in my opinion.
- sometdog 3y ago
  They removed the ability to create "radio" stations off of playlists, which does make discovery somewhat more difficult.
  - erellsworth 3y ago
    Oh man, I didn't know they did that. Lame.
  - erellsworth 3y ago
    Looks like they replaced it with the "smart shuffle" feature.
chinchilla2020 3y ago
> Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist? Spotify does have this. They've had it forever. It automatically happens after listening to a song you like, or you can make a playlist and generate a radio off of it. The recommendations are so far ahead of pandora it's like the difference between AIM chatbots and GPT-4. I use spotify but my boat friend uses pandora when we go out and I am astonished by how bad the matching on it is.
- dom96 3y ago
  In my experience the recommendations are always converging to songs I've already listened to hundreds of times.
code_runner 3y ago
even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years
delfinom 3y ago
My condolences for when you try to cancel SiriusXM one day.

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prox 3y ago

This is why I went with Apple Music. Apple being a hardware company first makes it that they just want to provide a good portal to music. Thus far I have been happy with it.

apwell23 3y ago

> I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist? Can you describe the criteria ?

coldpie 3y ago

Just try a different service. There's a zillion of them out there, all more or less interchangeable. Maybe one has the feature you want.

erellsworth 3y ago

I'm not sure how specific you want your criteria to be, but you can create a Spotify "radio" station based off of any song, band/artist, or playlist. Spotify's discovery capabilities are miles beyond Pandora, in my opinion.

sometdog 3y ago
They removed the ability to create "radio" stations off of playlists, which does make discovery somewhat more difficult.
- erellsworth 3y ago
  Oh man, I didn't know they did that. Lame.
- erellsworth 3y ago
  Looks like they replaced it with the "smart shuffle" feature.

chinchilla2020 3y ago

> Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist? Spotify does have this. They've had it forever. It automatically happens after listening to a song you like, or you can make a playlist and generate a radio off of it. The recommendations are so far ahead of pandora it's like the difference between AIM chatbots and GPT-4. I use spotify but my boat friend uses pandora when we go out and I am astonished by how bad the matching on it is.

dom96 3y ago
In my experience the recommendations are always converging to songs I've already listened to hundreds of times.

code_runner 3y ago

even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years

delfinom 3y ago

My condolences for when you try to cancel SiriusXM one day.