This is unfortunate news. I remember discovering 8tracks back in its early beginnings when I was searching for music discovery sites. I enjoyed it immensely as a pre-Spotify place to go. However,...
This is unfortunate news. I remember discovering 8tracks back in its early beginnings when I was searching for music discovery sites. I enjoyed it immensely as a pre-Spotify place to go. However, they have had data breaches in the past, causing me to put a crap dummy password on my account and just ultimately quit using it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora is the next streaming site to go down. Not sure I know a single person who uses Pandora to this day.
I used to use Pandora when I wanted to discover a new comedian... their stand-up randomness was nice. Stopped listening, came back after two years and recognized every track.
I used to use Pandora when I wanted to discover a new comedian... their stand-up randomness was nice. Stopped listening, came back after two years and recognized every track.
Yeah, I used Pandora for a while and eventually gave up because it would either play the same 20 songs over and over for a given channel, or it would find songs that were far too alike. I like a...
Yeah, I used Pandora for a while and eventually gave up because it would either play the same 20 songs over and over for a given channel, or it would find songs that were far too alike. I like a given genre, but want some variety within that genre. Ultimately, I'm not convinced the music genome project has the benefits claimed. For example, I don't really care if a pop song is sung by a man or a woman, so choosing songs similar to the current one is likely to give me less variety than I want because it tends to find songs that share that trait.
I also had a problem where if I didn't aggressively rate something a "thumbs down" it would start taking over my feed. Like if I listened to Classical music and didn't do a "thumbs down" to a Classical Christmas song in the middle of June, by July it would be 90% Christmas music. WTF?
Anecdotally, I know a few people who still use Pandora. Somewhat less anecdotally, Sirius XM bought them in February, so I'd imagine it will probably be kept around in some form for a while. At...
Anecdotally, I know a few people who still use Pandora. Somewhat less anecdotally, Sirius XM bought them in February, so I'd imagine it will probably be kept around in some form for a while. At least, I don't think they'd set $3.5 billion on fire all at once by shutting it down a year after they bought it. Of course, I also don't know much about corporate accounting so maybe if they did they could write it off as a loss or something...
It's a shame, but I'm surprised they lasted this long. I don't really use Spotify, but I'm surprised they haven't created a simple app for people to make mixtapes to send to family, friends,...
It's a shame, but I'm surprised they lasted this long. I don't really use Spotify, but I'm surprised they haven't created a simple app for people to make mixtapes to send to family, friends, lovers, crushes, etc.
This is unfortunate news. I remember discovering 8tracks back in its early beginnings when I was searching for music discovery sites. I enjoyed it immensely as a pre-Spotify place to go. However, they have had data breaches in the past, causing me to put a crap dummy password on my account and just ultimately quit using it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pandora is the next streaming site to go down. Not sure I know a single person who uses Pandora to this day.
I used to use Pandora when I wanted to discover a new comedian... their stand-up randomness was nice. Stopped listening, came back after two years and recognized every track.
Yeah, I used Pandora for a while and eventually gave up because it would either play the same 20 songs over and over for a given channel, or it would find songs that were far too alike. I like a given genre, but want some variety within that genre. Ultimately, I'm not convinced the music genome project has the benefits claimed. For example, I don't really care if a pop song is sung by a man or a woman, so choosing songs similar to the current one is likely to give me less variety than I want because it tends to find songs that share that trait.
I also had a problem where if I didn't aggressively rate something a "thumbs down" it would start taking over my feed. Like if I listened to Classical music and didn't do a "thumbs down" to a Classical Christmas song in the middle of June, by July it would be 90% Christmas music. WTF?
Anecdotally, I know a few people who still use Pandora. Somewhat less anecdotally, Sirius XM bought them in February, so I'd imagine it will probably be kept around in some form for a while. At least, I don't think they'd set $3.5 billion on fire all at once by shutting it down a year after they bought it. Of course, I also don't know much about corporate accounting so maybe if they did they could write it off as a loss or something...
It's a shame, but I'm surprised they lasted this long. I don't really use Spotify, but I'm surprised they haven't created a simple app for people to make mixtapes to send to family, friends, lovers, crushes, etc.
Playlists just aren't the same.