As everyone knows Pandora is raising the prices for a monthly subscription. I definitely understand for all the music available on Pandora and the cost for making all the music available, price increases will occur sometimes. This news does bring about some important questions and scrutiny. The price is increasing while at the same time , Pandora is still offering the lowest audio quality for any music streaming service. Pandora has abandoned many of the personalized playlist it use to provide to its subscribers. Pandora hasn’t offered many new features or new advancements for the Pandora app. While Pandora is increasing its price, Tidal music is dropping its subscription price. Now Tidal Music is offering access to high resolution streaming and Spatial Audio for $10.99 a month, it was $19.99. Tidal continues to improve their app with new features. Amazon Music has now announced a new AI playlist creation feature called, Maestro. Spotify has an AI DJ for you to listen to anytime. Apple Music now offers a stand alone app for Classical Music all in high resolution audio and Spatial Audio, that comes with your monthly Apple Music subscription, no extra charge. Other services are adding new features, providing higher quality audio and doing all this for the same price as Pandora. I feel Pandora is falling behind and falling behind quickly. For the subscription price, it has to be able to offer the same or better service than the competitors are offering. For us as consumers, it’s an amazing time, we have so many services to choose from all of them trying to add the best features possible to get us to subscribe. Pandora needs to learn a hard lesson, they aren’t the only service anymore, the others are working hard to get us to subscribe to them.
