Spotify vs. Pandora

[CaliforniaChief]

Do any of you use Spotify? How is it different than Pandora? I've noticed that people's playlists show on Facebook from Spotify, which I don't necessarily like. Is there a reason to listen to that as opposed to Pandora?

[ChiefsCountry]

I used to use Spotify mainly bc you can pick the songs while Pandora is like the radio. I quit using Spotify bc they save all of your songs on your hard drive and it takes up a bunch of space.

[DaFace]

Spotify is a 90% replacement for buying music, and I love it. Pandora is more of a music discovery service.
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[NewChief]

Spotify allows you to listen to one artist or a specific album without all the randomization. You can also do private mode to stop the Facebook spam.

[CaliforniaChief]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Spotify allows you to listen to one artist or a specific album without all the randomization. You can also do private mode to stop the Facebook spam.

My wife just showed me her news feed that showed that I just listened to "I touch myself" on 90's radio. I thought I set it to show for "only me" but apparently I failed in that.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

I like Slacker Radio better

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

I like Slacker Radio better

This.

I was using Pandora a yr or so ago and then a friend told me about Slacker.

Way better.

[Tombstone RJ]

Pandora sucks, I use spotify. Oh, and spotify will not save music on your putor of Ipod or whatever unless you tell it to. Otherwise all your music sits in cloud so you need wifi to access it.

The only issue I have with spotify (and it's a rather large issue because I'm a music nut) is that they don't have all the songs from the artists. Some songs are just missing. Also, if you look for stuff from a band like Black Sabbath, spotify doesn't have any of their old albums when Ozzie was the front man. That sucks. They have hundreds of Black Sabbath tunes with Dio and and lots of live stuff with Ozzie but none of the old original albums--WHY?

Anyway, the longer spotify is around, hopefully, the more these issues will go away.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

Pandora sucks, I use spotify. Oh, and spotify will not save music on your putor of Ipod or whatever unless you tell it to. Otherwise all your music sits in cloud so you need wifi to access it.

The only issue I have with spotify (and it's a rather large issue because I'm a music nut) is that they don't have all the songs from the artists. Some songs are just missing. Also, if you look for stuff from a band like Black Sabbath, spotify doesn't have any of their old albums when Ozzie was the front man. That sucks. They have hundreds of Black Sabbath tunes with Dio and and lots of live stuff with Ozzie but none of the old original albums--WHY?

Anyway, the longer spotify is around, hopefully, the more these issues will go away.

it's all licensing. some labels/artists won't grant them, some charge more than they are willing to pay.

That is one thing I do like about turntable.fm, you can upload songs not available.

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

it's all licensing. some labels/artists won't grant them, some charge more than they are willing to pay.

That is one thing I do like about turntable.fm, you can upload songs not available.

yah, that's what I kinda figured. I just hope that as spotify grows, these issues will go away.

[Gadzooks]

Grooveshark is still up and running for the moment.

[DaFace]

Y

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

Grooveshark is still up and running for the moment.

Yeah, but that's questionably legal at best.
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[Gadzooks]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Y

Yeah, but that's questionably legal at best.
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What's the worst that could happen? (serious question)

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

What's the worst that could happen? (serious question)

Probably nothing. The way I understand it, you're not easily traceable by IP, so my guess is that you have very little chance of suffering any personal consequences of using it.

For me, I've gotten to the point that I can afford to pay a modest amount for entertainment, and it's worth that to me to be on the up-and-up. Artists of the world work like everyone else, and I kind of feel bad stealing their work.

Don't get me wrong. When I was a college student, I was as big of a pirate as you could ever find. I certainly don't judge people who choose to go that route. But for me, you can have an almost unlimited access to music for $5/month. There are very few people in this world who can't legitimately afford that.

[Bearcat]

Based on what I've read, Spotify has about 5 times the music (~5 million vs ~1 million)... I use Pandora when I want to simply listen to music on my laptop. Spotify is really useful for discovering new artists and songs... you can rank songs by a specific artist by popularity or sort them by album. It's a great tool when people post their top albums of the year and I've never heard of any of them. The Linux app sucks though.