Pandora

Remember a few months ago when Pandora announced that it would impose a 40-hour listening cap on mobile users who don’t pay for a subscription? Well, it’s going away September 1st—just days before Apple’s iTunes Radio is expected to go live. Coincidence?

Rdio’s New Personalized Radio Automatically Plays Exactly What You Like

In the future, streaming radio stations will be so sophisticated that they’ll know based on all sorts of factors exactly what it is you want to listen to. We’re not quite there yet, but Rdio—our favorite streaming radio service—has a new personalized radio feature, which takes a bold step in that direction. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-streaming-radio-486515844 The new…

Two Moons That Pass in the Night

This image shows the rare sight of Saturn’s moons Mimas and Pandora aligning in the night sky—and they couldn’t look more different. Seeing them both together makes you realise just how varied moons can be. Pandora, the smaller of the two—just 50 miles across—lacks the mass, and hence sufficient gravity, to pull itself into the…

Will the secrets of DC’s New 52 be revealed in This Week’s Comics?

I don’t know for certain, but I do know this: Now that Pandora, the mysterious figure glimpsed in Flashpoint — who’s part of the New 52’s mysterious Trinity of Sin with the Phantom Stranger and the Question — is finally getting her own self-titled comic this week, so we might be as close as we’re…

WSJ: Apple’s Radio Terms Are (Slightly) More Generous Than Pandora’s

Apple’s new Radio service is now official and Pandora is coming under fire for being tight-fisted. Interesting, then, to hear of figures dug out by the Wall Street Journal which suggest that Apple is being every-so-slightly more generous with its deal. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-radio-apples-pandora-service-is-finally-here-512264218 According to the Journal, Apple will pay 0.13 cents and 15 percent of…

Pandora Actually Pays $1,300 for a Million Plays Not 16 Bucks

Math! It can solve a lot of problems. It can be made deliberately fuzzy. It can help us break down complicated things. Like artist music royalties from streaming music stations. When David Lowery revealed that Pandora paid him only $16 for 1 million plays, there was an outrage. But some deeper math reveals that Pandora…

An Artist Got 16 Bucks for a Song That Pandora Streamed a Million Times (Updated)

A million of anything is pretty much always an insanely impossible number. Winning a million dollars, having a million Twitter followers, selling a million products—anything done a million times is something to be proud of. But maybe not getting your song streamed on Pandora a million times. All you get sometimes is 16 measly dollars.…

Why Pandora Just Bought an FM Radio Station in South Dakota

Late in the day on Tuesday, news emerged that Pandora had acquired an FM radio station in South Dakota for an undisclosed sum. Yes, you read that right. The world’s largest internet radio station is getting into the terrestrial radio business, and it’s not because Pandora’s trying to build out its antique antenna collection. Either…

Pandora Ditches PS3 and Xbox 360 Apps For a Special HTML5 TV Interface

Starting today, you don’t need to use a standalone application to access Pandora through your Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. The company has built a new HTML5 home for its services that’s specially tailored for your TV. Simply point your console’s browser to tv.pandora.com, login, and you’ll be good to go. The move on Pandora’s…

Report: Apple Is Finally Sealing Deals For Its Internet Radio

The New York Times is reporting that Apple’s much-rumored music streaming service may soon be ready—even in time for next week’s WWDC—thanks to the company finally signing contracts with major music labels. https://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-apples-pandora-killing-internet-radio-servic-5954986 The report suggests that Apple signed a deal with the Warner Music Group over the weekend for both recorded music rights and…

Pandora’s new Premieres station will let you listen to new albums up to a week before they launch. Starting with new work from John Fogerty and Laura Marling, the station will highlight pre-release music right up until it drops, and won’t be subject to the same limitations as the normal Pandora player. [FastCompany]

The Best Streaming Radio

Turning an online music service into a powerful automated DJ isn’t easy. You can give an algorithm millions of songs and millions of data points, but it’s still not going to have any style. So of all your options—including Google’s new All Access—what’s the streaming radio most worth your time? We found out. A decade…

Google Play Music All Access Is a Subscription Like Spotify Only Better

You can now buy a music subscription from Google. Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s crack at rocketing to the top of the charts. Get ready for Google Play Access. Google Play All Access launches in the US today. It costs $10 per month. Everybody gets a 30-day free trial, and if you…

The Secret Twitter Music Feature That Adds a Dash of Pandora

Twitter’s stab at music streaming burst onto the scene a few weeks ago, in all its celebrity-stalking glory. But there’s at least one feature that’s still hiding behind the scenes: a Pandora-like “similar artists” option. And you can coax it out if you know the secret code. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-music-hands-on-a-celeb-stalking-music-discov-5994969 Discovered by Tyler Hayes the feature can…

Pandora Is Finally on Windows Phone, And It’s Really Good

Slow and steady and also yeah really slow but hey whatever—Pandora’s here for Windows Phone 8! And actually, it’s probably the best mobile version of Pandora out there. So that’s something. The new app is free, and ad-free, and totally unlimited. Pandora recently stuck a 40-hour monthly limit on other free mobile apps, so that’s…

Will Streaming Music Ever Be a Sustainable Business?

For almost ten years, streaming music services have come and gone. Sure, some have lasted longer than others, but so far none has ever made the business model work properly. So can it ever turn into a real, sustainable business? Verge has an interesting feature asking that very question. From the article: [W]hile streaming looks…

Starting in March, Pandora’s 40-hour cap on free music will apply to its mobile version, too. Listen wisely, friends.

Slacker Radio Redesigns Its Look to Entice the Pandora-Weary

Pandora is the leader in streaming music mostly because it got there first. But use it for a while, and you realize the service’s catalog—not to mention its features—are limited. On paper, Slacker Radio is superior, and today, the five-year-old service is launching an overhaul aimed at proving it’s superior. Slacker Radio is Internet radio…

Bloomberg: Apple’s Pandora-Killing Internet Radio Service Is Coming Early Next Year

Bloomberg reports that Apple is currently negotiating licensing deals with record labels in hopes that it can launch an Internet radio service “within the first three months of 2013.” The service would be a formidable competitor to Pandora. The report cites unnamed music industry sources that would seem confirm Apple’s long-rumored internet radio plans. As…

Here’s How Much Pandora Pays Music Artists

Pandora wants you to know that Pandora is good for music because it pays artists millions and millions of dollars for their songs. Take Drake and Lil Wayne, they get nearly $3 million each a year. And Pandora wants to pay them more. According to Pandora CEO Tim Westergren, Pandora will pay over two thousand…