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[Pandora,] the veteran online radio provider said Thursday it will let listeners can[sic] skip more songs and replay tracks if they watch an extra ad. For $5 a month, paid members get those perks without any commercials plus a mode for listening offline, in a revamped subscription called Pandora Plus.
The announcement marks the most substantive change to Pandora's service in years by giving its listeners more control. It's also a step toward the kind of on-demand subscription music service popularized by newer rivals like Spotify and Apple Music.
There's also a github-hosted, command-line-based tool called pianobar that lets you skip all Pandora ads for free.
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Pandora Launches Song Replays, More Ad Skips for All
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(Score: 1) by driven on Friday September 16 2016, @05:28AM
I wonder why people don't just fix obvious spelling or grammatical errors instead of taking the time to point them out. That is, unless you are actually surrounding the text with quotes to indicate it is a verbatim transcript of what was said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @06:28AM
Without [sic] we'd never know if we're reading the [EXPLICIT] version or the [CLEAN RADIO EDIT]
But baby, don't get it twisted
You was just another nigga on the hit list
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @07:31PM
I think it is unnecessary when you are using blockquote. The whole purpose of using it is to let the reader know that the text is verbatim, but that is the whole purpose of blockquote in the first place. It's not even there to correct for spelling mistakes, it is there to clarify any potential confusion in the text. At least it is used correctly here. I've seen it horribly abused and misunderstood on this site before.
Just a couple of days ago I saw someone replying to someone's comment, and they blockquoted the relevant person's comment, then put a sic in there to correct a spelling mistake. That gave me a laugh as that was a pretty dickish move.