How much money Pandora or Spotify pay out in royalties has to figure in the songs they repeatedly play. That math has to be figured into the software somehow. For example a genre can have a thousand artists on file with an average of 4 albums each but we will only hear 30 of those artists and only songs from 1 or 2 albums. The obscure artists not at all unless that is money saving filler.  ... View more

Good luck if you try Spotify. I left them for Pandora hoping for a varied more interesting listening experience. ... View more

To further expand on this topic. The failure of Pandora is that when you listen to an artist radio all you will hear are songs in the exact same genre down to the same formula, melody, rhythm, time signature, tempo and according to the mode it holds true for each. There is no discovery by any definition of the word.  ... View more

Pandora radio is terrible. Every artist, every song repeated ad infinitum on every station. When we shuffle stations it is worse because we can't even use modes to at least try to add some variability into the mix.  ... View more

The process to download a playlist to your PC is to get Spotify. Pandora is kind of a step backward. ... View more