Can Spotify Unseat Pandora In Us As Top Music Service?

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Posted 15 July 2011 - 12:27 PM

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Posted 16 July 2011 - 07:36 AM

I don't think Spotify can unseat Pandora for top music service because Spotify limits the number of free music for US users to 10 free hours a month where as Pandora allows unlimited music per month for free as long as you can put up with limited number of skips.

Now Spotify could end up the top paid music service since they have an unlimited plan for only $9.99 a month with offline caching. And their app does allow non premium users to use it for their own collection of music on their computer which services like MOG and Grooveshark don't allow.

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Posted 16 July 2011 - 03:16 PM

In the last paragraph you said it would be 10 hours per week. Which is it, per month or per week? And will it work with 64-bit Win 7 (which Pandora does not)?

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Posted 18 July 2011 - 07:19 AM

daydreamer2nightwriter, on 16 July 2011 - 03:16 PM, said:

In the last paragraph you said it would be 10 hours per week. Which is it, per month or per week? And will it work with 64-bit Win 7 (which Pandora does not)?

Sorry to disappoint youi but it does work with a 64-bit Win 7. I use it with my 64-bit Win 7 Ultimate, so your doing something wrong!

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 04:44 PM

I use Pandora or Last.fm to find new music, and Spotify to grab it. That $10 a month plan is amazing. Offline sync up to 10,000 songs across 3 devices to listen to when you don't have Internet access.

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Posted 24 September 2011 - 12:56 PM

This is a VERY Spotify biased article. Just letting everyone know that Pandora competes in many areas this article excludes. The "web interface" for Pandora has taken a major overhaul and most of the features described above require the premium service... same goes for Pandora. You can't compare one services PREMIUM to the other service's NON-PREMIUM. This article is garbage.

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Posted 22 November 2011 - 08:14 AM

I just want to listen to music. I don't want to work for it. Spotify costs money and requires me to do stuff. Too complicated. I'll stick to Pandora in my car.

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Posted 15 April 2012 - 02:22 PM

As far as on-demand, Grooveshark seems best for me so far; with the amount of music I keep listening to expanding as it is, it's becoming more convenient to stream than to have everything locally. So storing my own stuff online isn't my primary concern.

I'm still in the middle of the 6-months-unlimited with Spotify; 10 hours to me is like close to nothing at all, lol. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but the Pandora app I have (Blackberry)doesn't seem to have the 40-hour/month limit...so that's a plus.

There's also Slacker, which I prefer to Pandora, although it does seem to be very CPU-heavy online, and the app lately just crashes my phone so I haven't been using it. If it fixed the technical issues, I'd be using it more often than Pandora on my phone (as I was before it got all buggy) -- and I rarely listen to Pandora on the internet.