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Pandora CEO: No Plans To Sell Company: On Path To Do Something Big (venturebeat.com)
Chris O'Brien, reporting for VentureBeat: Making one of his biggest public appearances since returning to Pandora as CEO, Tim Westergren struck a defiant tone -- insisting that the company is not for sale and is, in fact, on the cusp of a reinventing itself. "We are on a path to do something big and something for the long-term," Westergren said when asked on stage about sale rumors. "Tha's why I got back in the saddle, so no plans for that." Pandora, with its Internet radio format, has been a music streaming pioneer. Founded in 2000, it survived the dot-com bust and enjoyed explosive growth following the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the ensuing smartphone era. Pandora's rise was capped by a big IPO in 2011. But as a public company, Pandora has struggled to show consistent profits and growth. It is often buffeted on one side by artists who claim they are not being paid fairly and on the other by new entrants such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon who offer on-demand streaming services.
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I've made playlists in other radio sites and they just seem to play other artists in the same genre which is never really what I want. Pandora was the only one I knew which would actually match by the qualities of the songs I chose regardless of the artist, therefore it was the only one I used.
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I just commented the same above. I haven't tried all the radio services.. for one thing I got turned off of Spotify because of the Facebook relationship. None of the services seemed to match by song quality.. Pandora was the only service that gave me other songs that were good accompaniments with each other. The other sites just seemed to go by artist genre.
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Pandora was the only service that gave me other songs that were good accompaniments with each other. The other sites just seemed to go by artist genre.
Same experience. I love Pandora for their ability to not play crap I don't like. I have 4 different stations "trained" pretty well, for different moods.
Biggest complaints:
1: I can't just play a song I want to hear.
2: Even paying for Pandora One, you still are limited in the number of skips.
3: No way to "turn off" things I don't like, such as acoustic tracks, or live music.
Mash together Google's music service (or Spotify, or whatever) with Pandora's ability to "match" content and you'd have a gold mine. It doesn't fix all of the problems as above, but it would come closer than anything I've found.