This is why I went with Apple Music. Apple being a hardware company first makes it that they just want to provide a good portal to music. Thus far I have been happy with it.

> I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

Can you describe the criteria ?

Just try a different service. There's a zillion of them out there, all more or less interchangeable. Maybe one has the feature you want.

I'm not sure how specific you want your criteria to be, but you can create a Spotify "radio" station based off of any song, band/artist, or playlist. Spotify's discovery capabilities are miles beyond Pandora, in my opinion.

They removed the ability to create "radio" stations off of playlists, which does make discovery somewhat more difficult.

Looks like they replaced it with the "smart shuffle" feature.

Oh man, I didn't know they did that. Lame.

> Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

Spotify does have this. They've had it forever. It automatically happens after listening to a song you like, or you can make a playlist and generate a radio off of it.

The recommendations are so far ahead of pandora it's like the difference between AIM chatbots and GPT-4. I use spotify but my boat friend uses pandora when we go out and I am astonished by how bad the matching on it is.

In my experience the recommendations are always converging to songs I've already listened to hundreds of times.

even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years

My condolences for when you try to cancel SiriusXM one day.