I abandoned ship for YouTube Music years ago. It's quite good, at least in the USA. You can't fine-tune auto-play/radio quite as much, but you can start a radio session based on any song, and aside from its default selections, you can choose songs [more familiar to you], [less familiar to you], [more popular], [less popular], or specific to some of the genre tags they put on the current song. You can also start a radio based on an album or playlist. As a bonus, you get no ads on YouTube videos, and I watch a lot of videos, so it's very fair that I'm paying them for it. Once in a while, the relevance of a song it selects to the seed song you chose is a little questionable, but that's all part of the fun. I feel I get a better variety than I did out of Pandora, oddly enough. This isn't intended to insult Pandora. Pandora was one of the first services on the scene and unfortunately seems to have suffered from unfavorable license agreements built in that early stage. But until they can correct these deficiencies, there's sadly not much reason to choose Pandora over YouTube. Pandora seemed to acquire Rdio - my previous favorite - in order to kill it; Pandora seemingly didn't adopt its features.
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