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Listening to the radio used to mean turning a dial until the static lifted
These days, 'listening to the radio' (a term we use loosely) it means turning on a stream of continuous music from an app
Sure, it's not the way your grandparents listened, but the new way is a lot more convenient, diverse and accessible.The only problem is
Stations is a brand new app from Spotify which provides radio-like music streaming
It's available on iOS and Android and can be used with free and premium accounts
streams people listen to.What is Spotify Stations and how much does it cost?To get started, you need to sign up or sign in to an existing
Spotify account (a free account works)
the top left corner and select an artist or a mood
Or, search for a song, decade, or something else.Once you have multiple stations, you can slide up and down to switch to the different
stations, and as a nice detail, stations pause and resume as you go back to them
single artist or mix in a few you like, and limit it to all similar music or just those artists
In which case, this is it.The Spotify app already has this radio functionality, but its desktop and mobile devices are verging very close on
Stations allows the company to offload the radio functionality without being confusing.If you look at it this way, Stations is just a
lightweight interface which should enable you to hit play and forget about the rest of the choices associated with picking out
The first and most obvious is a way to save a song to your library without it necessarily influencing future music
be nice to see a history of the past songs you listened to in Stations so you can save the ones you might have missed.Overall, Spotify
Stations is fast to get started, easy to use, and probably exactly what most people are looking for when they decide the time-of-day calls
Its music genome project helped identify similar artists and songs so well, it became popular among the general public, young and old,
looking for an endless supply of music.How much does Pandora cost?Pandora took off because of its decent music recommendations, but also
$4.99 to go to Pandora Plus
industry standard $9.99 per month.Image Credit: Pandora / Apple(Image credit: Pandora)(Image credit: Pandora)The benefits of Pandora
or decade to start a station or choose one of the premade stations to get started
Every time you start a new station it will be saved until you delete it
instruments used, types of rhythms, and more.Scattered throughout are lots of nice touches that make sense for a music app
Those include a sleep timer and alarm clock
the primary focus of Pandora is to play radio-like stations, the app remains easy to navigate
Never does the Pandora app feel cluttered, but as it adds podcasts and on-demand listening into the mix, radio listening might eventually
So much so that the better song selection outshines anything that might be lacking in its barebones app
Stations is the best radio app you can use at the moment
Spotify Stations is out there, and could be a better option if you're ever looking for greener pastures.Ygf6Mtvc9d6XgcRqQcQCYL.jpg?#
