Spotify's "Radio" feature compounds my dislike of "genres" as a means of navigating and discovering music.
Radio, play me a stream of "Rock / Alternative / Pop / 70s"
What the ---- does that even mean? Guaranteed you'll be skipping 9 out of 10 tracks it serves up.
I hate genres. Every file in my local music collection has that tag blanked.
The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one.
It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the adobe air desktop app is lightweight and responsive. Nice bonus: you can have up to 2 or 3 computers streaming music on the same account simultaneously.
Seriously, I cannot emphasize enough how awesome Pandora is.
Windows 7 in the US; YMMV elsewhere.
That same day I quit Pandora. At that point in time, they did not even have a mechanism to kill your account, so I had to email the company personally.
I quit my Facebook account not long after.
I refuse to willingly partake in a surveillance society.
http://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/24775-disco...
We also tell you which friend recommended which album, so you can immediately tell whose tastes are more in line with yours and whose are poo.