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Pandora Launches Song Replays, More Ad Skips for All

posted by martyb on Friday September 16 2016, @01:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the skip-to-my-Lou dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

[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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @12:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2016, @12:17PM (#402726)

    I've been a long-time subscriber to Pandora; almost since they started. I signed up mainly because it is convenient to use and my region's radio stations are mostly dead (and those that remain are 50% ads).

    It is some interesting new features, but I wish they'd crowdsource categorization of the music more. Over the years I've gained some hints about how they categorize music, and the sorts of things I think about don't completely line up with how they think about them.

    Also, it'd be nice to to block certain artists, songs, or even categories from all playlists. Like, my work trance playlists sometimes get these horrible "nightcore" tracks; they seem to be sped up or higher pitch versions other songs, made from the original famous recording, hardly even a proper "remix" or cover.