Pandora Premium Uses Spotify and Apple Music With Essentially the Same Service in a More Attractive Package
Pandora today announced Pandora Premium, the highly anticipated music subscription service from the streaming radio giant. Like Spotify , Google Play Music, and Apple Music , Pandora Premium is $ 10 a month, has thousands of streaming songs, and works pretty much like every other service you already use.
At first glance, Pandora Premium works in a similar way to other streaming services. Find an album or artist, click Play, and you will stream the album. Pandora Premium will launch with offline mode, playlists and mobile apps. For its part, Pandora Premium uses the Pandora radio algorithm to deliver smarter playlists. Add a song or two to a playlist and Pandora will create the rest of the playlist on its own, ensuring the music never stops. The same goes for any songs you click in the playlist, which essentially means that the old Pandora radio you’ve known for years is stuck inside Pandora Premium. The same technology that helps automatically create playlists will also be used to filter search results, helping to push tribute songs, karaoke versions, and covers on the results page.
If there is one thing that really sets Pandora apart from the competition, it is its beautiful design. Pandora acquired Rdio back in 2015 , and while Rdio was featureless compared to its biggest competitor at the time, Spotify, it had user loyalty because the app was well designed. It’s the same here. Pandora Premium looks and works just like the Rdio, and longtime fans will immediately feel right at home with Pandora Premium.
Pandora Premium launches in the coming weeks with an invite system to start and a free trial. Pandora Plus members (this is the ad-free radio tier) will get free access to Premium for six months. The service is launched first on Android and iOS, and in the future there will be a web application.
Pandora Premium will change the way you listen to music | Pandora