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I love Spotify, but I am constantly hopping between them and Pandora whenever I want to use radio. Spotify's radio is terrible. It is about as good as a traditional radio where they repeat the same 10 songs every hour. Hopefully they can leverage some of this tech into improving the radio as well.

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Completely agree about Spotify radio. It sucks enough (repeats primarily) that I haven't used it in a long time. Fixing it to work more like Pandora would be awesome.

I'm in such a huge bubble with Spotify. Everytime I use radio I get the same bands and songs. I feel like I can't get it to ever play anything new.

Yeah it's impossible. There's a band that consistently comes on one of my stations even though I have given it a thumbs down at least a dozen times. Pandora definitely wins as far as radio goes, but when I want to hear a specific song Spotify is awesome. However I also noticed that quite a few albums have migrated to Apple Music from bands that I frequently listen to which is a bummer. Then again that's what youtube is for :)

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