Pandora: Music & Podcasts 12+

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!!

I’ve had pandora for about 6 years installed on my phone. I love the short sessions you can have for free by just watching an ad (which I only discovered 3 years ago fsr) and they usually last about 30 minutes. But there have been some glitches I have been encountering. So let’s say I pick a song and start a session, then I realize that I have to do something else so I pause a song. About 1-2 hours later when I come back it would be done, which is *supposed to happen* but it doesn’t. So I turn a song on thinking it’s not a big deal, and the song won’t play. None of the songs will! I turn on the radio stations though and it works fine (though a bit slower). Oh, but when I try to replay a song on that station, which usually works, isn’t, so I have to be more careful as not to make a mistake of skipping anything. But sometimes, or sorry, ehem, MOST of the time, it will be hours later AND it still won’t END. Like please, I just want this glitchy session to end so I can start another one so I can actually listen to the songs in my playlists! The only solution to the problem for me is to sin out of my account, and then re-log in. It’s so much work though to go all the way to the settings, sign out, wait like 5 minutes (yes it takes a very long time) and then finally log back in, and then think of a song to search up in the search bar. Like, this isn’t supposed to happen. It’s so repetitive. Please fix this.