• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip
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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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          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