Most liked posts in thread: Pandora or Spotify.....

Pandora Been listening for years and years The stations I have created are tuned now. Like the music I like and thumbs down for stuff I dont. Probably listen to 50-60 hours of Pandora a week. If you come to my desk theres a extremely high chance I am listening to Pandora. Just my .02

 

I like Pandora mainly because I've had a station going for so long it's so tuned with the variety that I listen to. Also I've got a Pioneer double din touch screen head unit which has the Pandora app on it.

 

Ditto on Spotify, for the above reasons.

 

Slacker Radio is better than both! A lot more music and seems to have better stations

 

My garage speakers are a couple of ol Advent book shelf speakers With a Kenwood tuner amp. I still listen to the radio on it.

 

For me, Spotify. Easy to down load full albums or songs and custom build playlist. There radio stations by genre are also very good. I've got a playlist called MINI that has all my favorite music on it for driving.

 

Neither, I listen to the radio.

 

Skip them all and use an iPod. Play the music you want to hear anytime.

 

Use them both and see what you like. Especially if you are only using the free versions, it's not like you need to commit to one or the other.

Pandora vs. Spotify Radio vs.Google All Access Radio vs. iTunes Radio | Digital Trends

 

I've been rather happy with Pandora. Being I have musical tastes that can vary afar afield from ABBA to Zappa without missing much in between and the fact that I can 100 different stations makes it easy to add something new on the fly. Most of the time Pandora leads me to asome new discoveries, however it can get a bit stale too.

However they seem to not have much at all when it comes to the small indie bands.

I use the paid Pandora.

 

+1 - I tried Spotify for about an hour before going back to Slacker.

 

Hey Scott do you have a decent set of PC speakers? If you do you can hook them up to your iPod in the garage. Then buy a better set for your PC. :idea:

I did this in my garage since my Polk PC speakers sounded great but I did not have a sub. I put the small 120 volt Polks in the garage and plug my iPod or iPhone in when I want music.

Then I went an got a nice new set of speakers w/sub for my PC. :ihih:

Just another idea....:idea:

 

Something's wrong. Streaming radio uses relatively low bandwidth, and they automatically adapt to use even less when a poor connection is detected. What phone and system version are you running? Does it work on cellular connection?

 

Have your tried changing the channel on the WiFi. They all seem to be set to the same one out of the factory. This causes some interference in populated areas. Did that here and about doubled my downloads speeds over WiFi.

 

In general, what is the quality of the phone's internet connection while on your Wi-Fi? Does web browsing work okay? As I said, streaming radio isn't particularly demanding. See what results you get if you run the Speedtest.net app.