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

[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: 2) by Taibhsear on Friday September 16 2016, @03:45PM

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Friday September 16 2016, @03:45PM (#402840)

    I usually only use pandora to find new artists similar to one I like when I get bored of the metric fuckton of music I already have at home. I'd never pay for it though. And Ublock and Adblock plus both block the ads on pandora with no loss of functionality.

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