Spotify Updates Mac App With Pandora-esque Radio Stations

old news?

Hasn't this been available for some time now?

Hasn't this been available for some time now?

I believe the difference is that before you could only do "artist" or "song" radio stations. Now you can do radio stations based on a full album, or based on a custom playlist. In theory, this should result in better radio stations.

That's what I was just about to ask...

Thats been around for ages...

I haven't used Spotify so far.

Pandoraeske?

I am already listening on Pandora.

What would Spotify have to better Pandora?

I haven't used Pandora in a long time, but if it's anything like it used to be, it's hardly comparable to Spotify.

Here's how to think of Spotify:
Think of iTunes without all the bloat. It just plays music. The store is gone. Syncing is gone. Video is gone. As a result, the app starts up vastly quicker than iTunes. Now imagine that iTunes had every song ever recorded in history in its library. Legally. You may click on any song or album or artist, and it will instantly start playing them. They're streamed, so they don't take up space on your hard drive (not quite true... Spotify tries to buffer itself by downloading the next ten minutes worth of audio whenever it can. As a result, it'll keep on playing if you have a lousy Internet connection that goes out for a few minutes at a time.)

Basically, it's the world's greatest music playing app.

So what's the catch? It's ad supported. They have three types of ads:
1 - banner ads
2 - full window ads (they block Spotify, nothing else. Click the X and they go away.)
3 - audio ads. For every 15 minutes of music you listen to, it'll play a minute's worth of audio ads. Like what you would hear on the radio.

If you'd like to remove the ads, it costs $5/month.

I believe the difference is that before you could only do "artist" or "song" radio stations. Now you can do radio stations based on a full album, or based on a custom playlist. In theory, this should result in better radio stations.

That makes sense.