Well you compared Qobuz de benchmark sound and standard sound, I was comparing among regular services, Pandora sounds as good as Spotify. That's why I say that if you introduce something radically new, only Flac. But if Pandora introduces Flac, it will be the best service among all the existing ones, with its system of recommendations, Pandora has no competitors and will never have. ... View more

For me, for an ordinary smartphone 190kb is enough and no more is required, in fact, if you compare the Spotify and Pandora, they are identical in sound on smartphones. Spotify uses outdated ogg codec and it does not sound expressive even at 320kb. Pandora sounds livelier. At home I have Creative AE-5 sound card at my PC, the software from this card allows me to pull the quality of mp3 or its subtypes to a good sound level, it sounds very cool after such processing, so for me the sound quality in Pandora is good for daily tasks. It feels good as any other service, don't look at the numbers, Spotify has completely different psychoacoustics and as it uses old-fashioned codec, it sounds really crappy on my PC without any sound processing. By the way, modern receivers can pull low bitrate stream. If you enter it into Pandora, you'll get flac at once. Then I'll cancel Qobuz subscription at once, xD. But don't forget, no other streaming service will give you such a rich experience in listening to music, appreciate it, Spotify is the bottom in terms of recommendation system and in general, as a service if you use it for a long time in it so many gaps that you'll develop a strong phobia and fear of listening to music. Pandora gives you freedom without locking you into narrow genres and you should give it a huge bow for that. Thank you Pandora for having you with us. ... View more

Necessarily) Thanks again) I just add tracks to my station in different modes, it doesn't always work right away and you just need to keep doing it.   mod edit: format ... View more

You can say like brothers and sisters.  Pandora, as your old friend, always knows what you want to hear and will always pick up soulful songs for you. I hope you all are well. mod edit: format ... View more

Honestly, this is the first forum where I happily wrote about myself and I was pleased, one might say like a family. Until this year I used Spotify for three years, taking into account what I knew about their community, I asked there 1-2 times about some problems in three years and that's all) The atmosphere did not strongly incline towards simple conversations there. Well, I don’t know, this is my subjective opinion. By the way, spotify after Pandora is generally impossible to listen to, there is no soul in it, in spotify you feel a car and that's it. Pandora is like a living person ... View more

Name? Sergei Compressed.jpg Where you're from? Russia Stavropol What your favorite genre of music is? I love Rock, Folk from Celtic to Bluegrass, Electronic music, sometimes Metal, but in general I listen to a lot of things according to my mood and I can change many genres and moods a day) What you're currently listening to? Today I listened to several stations, experimented with this one https://pandora.app.link/7R8POy2rf9 and also tried to configure this one https://pandora.app.link/7R2PoU7rf9 seems to be gradually turning out but still needs to be configured) Favorite feature of the Pandora service? I like all the functions, they are unique in their own way and will not be found anywhere else, Pandora is a unique and only service that simply gives a huge experience of use, I hope it will continue to develop. For example, I like to tune a station to a certain type of sound, I like playlists, but I admit my weakness is Radio, which in almost 90% will always surprise with its sound) I like to learn new artists and very rare things. For a year of using Pandora, it surprises me every day that every day for me seems to have just got acquainted with this wonderful Service. ... View more

Thank you, very homely) There is no such nice environment in other communities ... View more

Well, I understood something like that, I just went to the Discovery section, first I made 2-3 Thumbs Up on the tracks I liked, went to my station, I listen, if you can see that variety has been added, then I continue to listen until the moment I get the feeling that The station has reached its limit, which means I again go to the desired section and supplement the station 2-3 Thumbs Up. If after the initial 2-3 Thumbs Up the station does not respond, then add another 2-3 Thumbs Up ... View more

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Very helpful and kind community) ... View more

So I want to figure out how many Thumbs Up you need to put, for example, in the Deep Cuts mode, so that the station will play more rare ones, for this, 1  Thumbs Up or 5, or maybe more is enough. I want to clarify this. How many thumbs up is needed for the station to change priority) Thank you, good ideas, I've already voted for one, voted for the second now ... View more

You can ask how many likes are needed in a certain mode for the station to start changing? Maybe 2 or more? How did you get so many artists, did you just listen in Discovery Mode, click Like, and then just remove duplicate artists from the station itself?   mod edit: format     ... View more

As for me, such a model is more interesting than the Spotify model, although I am a premium subscriber, but I like this model more ... View more

Very cool idea!!, I support with all hands! ... View more

Pandora is the best service that I have tried, and I tried them 6. Pandora is perfect in almost all aspects. ... View more

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