Pandora is an extremely-popular music streaming service that is available on a variety of platforms, including Android.
Taking the idea of a traditional radio service and bringing it to the internet, Pandora offers different tiers of service. Its primary revenue generator is its free service, which lets users listen to a set amount of hours per month of genre- or artist-based radio stations with audio ads interspersed every so often between tracks. For those who want to listen even more, Pandora One is the paid version of the service that removes advertisements, increases the audio quality, unlocks use of its desktop application and removes any limits to the amount of music you can listen to.
Because Pandora technically classifies itself as a radio provider and doesnt let users choose specific songs or albums to listen to, it negotiates lower per-play rates that it has to pay to artists. This has caused a bit of turbulence between Pandora, artists and music labels, but has also let Pandora charge r less for its service than other on-demand streaming music providers like Spotify, Rdio and Google Play Music All Access.
Pandora remains a great free radio option for those who dont take music too seriously and want to spend more time listening and less time managing playlists and searching for specific music.
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Just a few weeks back, Pebble users with iOS devices landed support for Pandora control, and today Android users join the fun as well. Pebble has announced today that Android users can now view and change stations, thumb songs up and down, skip, play and pause tracks. We heard about Pandora...
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