I've been a subscriber of Spotify for years. I'm with Homer- I don't want a mix of "stations", I like to listen to albums or my own playlists. There are a very few artists not on Spotify- The Eagles, The Beatles, and Taylor Swift (ick)- but for the most part I can get any album or song I want, when I want it.
I can find new music too, by playing stations if I want. I love it. I pay $5 a month for it, and got rid of XM since I can play it in my car also.
I want that mix. I use Pandora to listen to new music, then I track the album down, typically in Grooveshark.
Spotify also has stations. You can choose which method of listening suits you at the time. It has the best of both worlds.
and when you're listening to, say, eddie van halen radio :d, you get a pretty decent mix. If you click "like", it will gone on a playlist and then you have a playlist called "liked from radio", and that is a great way to revisit new music that you hear.
Pandora's pretty good, but I much prefer Spotify.
Sadly, my work's antivirus software blocks Spotify from working, so I'm stuck with Pandora much of the time.
Haven't tried Slacker yet, or Grooveshark. Youtube's a pretty good resource too if you want to listen to specific songs or albums.
1) Spotify
2) iHeartRadio (mostly for the benefits of being able to listen to talk radio from around the country)
3) Slacker
4) Pandora
Pandora may be the most popular, it's been one of the worst streaming services for quite some time.
I'm not going to pay for a subscription to either, so for being limited to the free side of things, I've tried Pandora and Spotify and I like Panfora better. Their algorithms can get a little screwy sometimes, especially for ads (my most-listened to stations are classic bluegrass, dropkick murphys and darby o'gill, and for a solid month every ad I heard was in spanish). I tried Spotify on and off a few times, I mostly found the app interface to be a lot more difficult, especially when in the car.
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