Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by noxToken on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:12AM
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> I found stations got stuck into the same set of songs and would stop adding new ones.
There was this odd bug on some stations that caused unrelated tracks, at least from a human standpoint, to play. Most notorious were some classic rock stations. After a couple hours of play, they'd start playing comedy. I could understand if there were some parody bands or musicians like Spinal Tap or Tenacious D seeding the stations, but these stations had none of the sort.
Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by redwood on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:47AM
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Stuck on the same set of songs is really the Killer
Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by aswanson on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:07AM
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I liked spotify but requiring a fb account to listen is pretty lame. Don't know if they've modified that requirement.
Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by bendykstra on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:22AM
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I have had Spotify for about a year and have never had to connect Facebook.
Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by notheguyouthink on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:19AM
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They must have, i'm a Spotify sub and i've never used FB with Spotify. At least, that i remember. I rarely (read: maybe once a year) login to FB so i despise any FB-only login services.
Re:Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
by magic_beans on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:17AM
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How opposed would you be to creating a shell fb account with zero personal info and a fake name, in order to log in to products? I realize you shouldn't have to take this extra step, but so many wonderful products DO require an fb login...
This year I cancelled and moved to Spotify.
For $2/month it was a great product and a great deal. But the product didn't change over a 5 year period. I found stations got stuck into the same set of songs and would stop adding new ones. I wonder win the last time the Music Genome Project was updated? More infuriating, their buggy Adobe Air desktop app was never fixed or updated.
Three years ago the price moved to $3/mo. Two years ago it moved to $4/mo. This past year they got rid of any grandfathered discounts and charged $5/mo. I was sick of paying more for the same product and jumped ship. I do miss my radio stations, but Spotify's prebuilt playlists are pretty good replacement.