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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 22 hours agoPandora was initially antithetical to playlists, the concept was utilizing the music genome project to play songs that are like songs you’ve like.
Playlists probably was the thing Spotify had that pandora didn’t have that made Spotify get big, you can make playlists now.
I only use pandora because it’s music discovery is so good tbh.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Playlists? The reason people use Spotify is you can play the individual song or album that you want and you can’t with Pandora. That’s the key difference. Not playlists lol
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I’m not entirely sure how selecting the song or songs you want to listen to differs from a playlist, but ok.
I think the concept of a playlist is exactly what you’re describing.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Oh I fundamentally misunderstood the term I guess lol I was reading it as being able to make playlists (like broadly? If that makes sense) as some sort of key feature.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I think generally it is the key feature.
Internet radio existed before pandora came along, pandora was novel in that it implemented the music genome project. The idea of the user selecting the next song was counter to their intent.
Playlists, and/or the user selecting their songs wasn’t exactly novel except for the free2play model w/ads allowing its widespread adoption.
IMO pandora paved the way for the commercial viability of Spotify, now pandora has playlists and you can select individual songs and albums. I still use it just for the music discovery