What do you think of Pandora and AccuRadio

[recto101]

They are good

 

[gunterm]

They aren't real radio, just a smart jukebox...

You can like them, but they need to stop calling themselves radio

 

[landtuna]

Tried Pandora. Didn't like the playlists (or their attempt to define what I like to hear). Dropped it.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

They aren't real radio, just a smart jukebox...

You can like them, but they need to stop calling themselves radio

As usual, you're on The Money, Matt. While the stream quality is improved, there's no feeling at all that you're listening to "radio". You can get the same content on Music Choice and that's not radio either.

 

[radiojomo]

AccuRadio tends to repeat music over and over again, Pandora stinks in my opinion. I think the best radio streaming service out there right now is Goom. Now that's real radio

 

[V.Riley]

I tried Pandora, and thought it was a neat concept, however after a week of listening, I was done. AccuRadio, as mentioned above has lot of repeats, not enough depth in variety, and it my be just me, but they both seem to be less "Human" than a truly "local" radio station. In another forum thread somewhere I saw them described as an iPod on shuffle play. Of course they both have to pay music royalties out the ying-yang, so they couldn't afford a human staff like local radio.

 

[bamatide]

With internet radio you have three different types of listeners.

1) Ones who ONLY prefer on demand type streams (Pandora, Accuradio, etc)
2) Ones who ONLY prefer (Non FM Broadcasts) (977 Music, 1club.fm, di.fm, 181.fm) - this class is still where the majority of the listeners are.
3) Ones who ONLY prefer FM broadcasts

One of the three hates the other two types with a passion. Average listeners (not radio geeks like us) tend to like the #2 option more because the stations are made by average, ordinary people who simply have a passion for music - Not big huge cookie cutter/money hungry corporates.