Pandora: Music & Podcasts 12+

I love pandora, but I don’t really like that a lot of songs and albums are only available for radio playback. I wish these tracks could just be played normally and you could add them to a playlist. I’m not sure if the artist chooses the album to only be available for radio, but it’s pretty irritating where you have 2 keep scrolling through a song mix to find the track that the mix is made from. If the radio only availability of some tracks can’t be fixed, I’d like it if the track that the mix is based on, for example, the whole album “Terre Thaemlitz - You? Again?” Is only available for radio playback, I wish that the song in that album could start off their radio stations, that a track from that album that has its own station could always start with that song that made up its station. It would also be cool if you were able to add a song that’s only available for radio playback into a playlist and you would be able to listen to it infinite amount of times. I just don’t really like the radio station only way of some tracks and albums. It would be cool if these tracks could be played endlessly and could be added to playlists and also start off their stations every time you come to that station. Also, seamless transitions or a cross fade option would be really nice too. It’s really annoying to hear gaps between songs on albums like The Wall by Pink Floyd that all cross fade into each track seamlessly.

I’ve tried nearly every music streaming platform under the sun (an exaggeration but certainly at least the major players) and I honestly think each music streaming platform app is specialized to provide a specific user goal. Pandora, in my experience, does a really great job finding new music from a range of genres that match the “vibe” of a radio station’s initial sound. Sometimes it’s not about the genre of music for me - it’s something about the sound of the song and the vibe of the music that captures my imagination and makes me want more - for example Linkin Park’s early albums. I use Pandora specifically for finding music of all different genres and styles that capture the spirit of the sound of those Linkin Park songs and I must give Pandora 5 stars because the app has been instrumental in my discovery of a large number of new music and artists that I love and haven’t found before. (Dounia, Tommy Genesis, to name a few) anyway there’s no one perfect solution for every single person since we all have our own individual goals and needs - that being said if you’re thirsting for something new, something innovative, or even something familiar but different from what you know I personally recommend using Pandora whether or not you buy the ad free plan or not. Even the free version does a great job of accomplishing the goal of bringing together similar music from all over the musical universe.

My brother told me about your music App years ago and I signed up for it first on my computer and then on my iPhone! My husband had Sirius in his car and actually paid to use it! It was absolutely the worst music no matter which station we listened too. Half of the songs they played must be from the “B-side” of records from singing artists we chose! It was dreadful, especially because we could not give a thumbs down on any song they played so we never had to hear the songs again! It was a total ripoff! We cancelled our subscription for Sirius and will NEVER waste our money on them again! Now we use Pandora exclusively because you play all our favorite songs - plus, we get to choose the songs we love with a thumbs-up, so we hear them played often! AND, if there’s a song we’re not particularly fond of, we give it a thumbs-down and never hear it again! It’s a total win-WIN for us! Plus, Pandora is FREE! The few commercials we need to listen to are never annoying and long. I couldn’t be more pleased and use your station almost every time I drive my car! Thank you for providing such a wonderful music experience! I hope you never change your station!!