I've been with Pandora for several years and have really enjoyed the several "stations" we've created.  We've ended up purchasing CD of artists we've discovered through Pandora and are currently on the Pandora Plus subscription which streams at only 128kbps.  It is my understanding that "Premium" offers more flexibility but does not offer a higher quality of audio.  What has caused us to reconsider our Pandora account is that those CDs of the same tacks we discovered on Pandora are so superior in audio quality that we now realize just how much of the music we've been missing.  In short we really dumbed down our level of expectation as a result and now realize what we've been missing and just what our HiFi system is actually capable of providing in quality sound. We now have an Amazon Music account and greatly appreciate the high fidelity of the flac files there.  Pandora really needs to "up their game" or they are going to lose accounts like mine.  I would happily pay $12-$15 monthly for music in a lossless format. ... View more