pandora
 

i got an email from them today stating that in march, the free music station will limit free music to 40 hours per week.....wtf?

oh well i guess nothing lasts forever.

40 hours still seems good.

I agree. I listen to Pandora all day. If I get shut off next week. Ill know why :)

actually, i just went back to read it again and it will be 40 hours per month!!!
I'm writing to give you an important heads up. In an effort to balance the reality of increasing royalty costs with our desire to maximize access to free listening on Pandora, we are implementing a 40-hour per month limit on free mobile listening.
Pandora's per-track royalty rates have increased more than 25% over the last three years, including 9% in 2013 alone and are scheduled to increase an additional 16% over the next two years. After a close look at our overall listening, a 40-hour per month mobile listening limit allows us to manage our costs with minimal listener disruption.
Less than 4% of listeners will ever hit this limit, but based on your listening it seems that you might. To keep the music you love flowing we have a variety of easy options for you to consider if you reach the 40-hour limit: listen for free as much as you'd like on desktop and laptop computers; pay $0.99 for unlimited, ad-supported listening for the remainder of that month; or become a Pandora One subscriber to get unlimited listening with no advertising.
We'll be implementing this change starting in March and will be sure to let you know if you're approaching the limit. As always, your feedback and suggestions are welcome, so don't hesitate to shoot us an email. For more details on this change, please click here.
Thanks for listening,
Tim
Founder

So $4 a month to become a Pandora One member and support the artists you're listening to is going to break your bank? Big playa over here guise!

So what is Mobile listening. Maybe you listen to much and they are just putting it towards your account? I did not see any emails with this info.

I did get an email from SiriusXM today that my fee will go about less then 2 cents per day due to an increase in music royalty fees.

I've been using grooveshark.com, it's not bad

really? i do support the artists i listen to. going to see dropkick murphys in Orlando tomorrow. i just didn't want to have another bullshit bill due every month. even if it is only 4$....

Why this amazing service still isn't available in Canada I will never know.

I almost joined Pandora, but you still have limited skips. Joining only removes the big ads.

When I clicked to join, There was no option except to take the free trial first.

Try Spotify

Joining gives you a few options.

I recently found Spotify, so no longer use Pandora. But, for those of you that do use Pandora, the premium service is worth it, especially those of you that are at a computer all day (which should be most of you.)

The downloadable client offers a better quality of music. No advertisements. Fewer timeouts. To me, those three things are worth the $50 a year.

Not to mention, Pandora is a money pit. They are losing money like crazy.

Both Pandora and Spotify are well worth the premium subscriptions

lost the use of pandora years ago

meh.

Not using it anymore.

only use Pandora in my car.

blame it on congress

The article I read also said if you hit your 40 hour per month max you can pay 99cents to continue to get unlimited music for the rest of the month. I would guess most people could afford $1.

Me too


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I got Amazon's Cloudplayer working in Canada on my Android phone, so I grabbed a $25/year subscription there and I'm uploading all my music to it at the University for the fast upload speeds.

250,000 song limit should do me just fine :)

40 hours is a helluva lot of time to be listening to it.

right, it's not about being able to afford the dollar...now i can listen for 40 hours and then around the 10th of the month or so, i'll have to log in, give them the dollar, and then get back on with my life again,,,,,i just wanna push play and listen. is that too much to ask for?

So assuming you will eat up the 40 hours by the 10th that means you listen to roughly 120 hours of music per month. Great. You are telling me your life is so crazy and busy you can't find 5 minutes out of a day to spend that $1 so you can get an additional 80 hours of music that month. $1 for 80 hours of music streamed to your phone and customized to your listening preferences sounds like a pretty freaking good value to me.

Would you rather they just shut down the free model and forced you to pay for the service or go elsewhere?

And we complain about people not wanting to pay for porn and using the tubes to get their porn for free?

I'm actually a big fan of owning high quality .flac music stored on my devices rather than low quality streaming commercial filled music.

Sure, I would love to have higher quality music than most streams, but then again most of the time I play it through shitty speakers so I likely would still miss out, but I have no real desire to own a lot of music. By default, over the years, I have purchased a lot of CD's and gotten many more for free from an old job so I have a decent amount, but I am always looking for new stuff and love to listen to stuff I don't own so I would rather have a cheap streaming option with a large selection then to be constantly spending money on music that is not going to get much use.

I saw that on the news this morning, but what they said was...that 40 hour limit is for mobile...not your desktops {and I assume laptops}.

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:note: I see that was discussed previously...