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> but Facebook

People listen to music for hours each day, even while working. They aren't using Facebook like that.

I also left Spotify streaming on my work computer when I left this evening. My average Spotify usage is probably 23 hours a day.

Your work computer's Spotify usage doesn't have anything to do with Pandora's claim about being the most used mobile app.

I'm not sure if you're serious or not. I think the connection that was being made is that, if you evaluate usage based purely on time, Pandora may have a ton of time in use. But, much (or at least some) of that time may be people who've left it to stream for hours after they've left.

Leaving your work computer on doing anything has nothing to do with the usage of a mobile app. He's not leaving his phone on playing music overnight at work.

Pandora isn't claiming to be the most used app in the world, they're claiming to be the most used mobile app in the world. People take their phones with them and for battery life alone are not likely to leave them playing music while they aren't listening to it.

I think Pandora stops if you leave the app playing for some hours without any interaction with the app. Most streaming services do that to save bandwidth.

Paid version wont do that.

This is needed for music playing in the background at restaurants for example.

> music playing in the background at restaurants

I'm pretty sure Spotify/Pandora's terms & conditions don't allow that:

https://help.pandora.com/customer/portal/articles/215200-pla...

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/#s8

Good to know.

The terms may prohibit, but in my observations, I know of many restaurants and small businesses that do it anyway. I'm sure most ignorant of the policy, but how many would stop anyway if still known of it.

Yes it will, it just takes longer to timeout. And you cannot just play a normal Pandora subscription in a commercial setting.

Sure it does. We leave Pandora open on our phones during the workday almost all day and at least one of them in the evening at home.

Which makes you part of Pandora's claim that they're the most used mobile app. Leaving a desktop computer streaming music on at work has nothing to do with mobile app usage.

It illustrates that music apps are likely to be in use for very long periods/proportions of time. maccard's comment was quite relevant; it's not at all unreasonable to read in "and other people might use pandora similarly to the way I use spotify".

Phone app, not PC website.

I'm not sure why GP is getting downvoted for pointing this out.

It's obvious that music apps get used for a long period of time. That's why Pandora is one of the (if not the most like they claim) most used mobile apps in the world. Leaving Spotify on at work while you aren't there is not the reason why.

Trying to get indie artists paid, are we? Or just astroturfing your last.fm ranks? Both seem noble enough.

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