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I think this is the issue. 10,000 employees vs bad user experience.

Spotify has gotten worse for me as well, I pay for Spotify + SiriusXM. Spotify should be much better, but it's not. I'm thinking of dropping it soon.

Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

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I'm not sure how specific you want your criteria to be, but you can create a Spotify "radio" station based off of any song, band/artist, or playlist. Spotify's discovery capabilities are miles beyond Pandora, in my opinion.

They removed the ability to create "radio" stations off of playlists, which does make discovery somewhat more difficult.

Oh man, I didn't know they did that. Lame.

Looks like they replaced it with the "smart shuffle" feature.

> Why doesn't Spotify still not have a Pandora style radio station? I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

Spotify does have this. They've had it forever. It automatically happens after listening to a song you like, or you can make a playlist and generate a radio off of it.

The recommendations are so far ahead of pandora it's like the difference between AIM chatbots and GPT-4. I use spotify but my boat friend uses pandora when we go out and I am astonished by how bad the matching on it is.

In my experience the recommendations are always converging to songs I've already listened to hundreds of times.

This is why I went with Apple Music. Apple being a hardware company first makes it that they just want to provide a good portal to music. Thus far I have been happy with it.

Just try a different service. There's a zillion of them out there, all more or less interchangeable. Maybe one has the feature you want.

> I just want to create 5 or 10 statiosn that auto pick based on certain criteria, does this exist?

Can you describe the criteria ?

My condolences for when you try to cancel SiriusXM one day.

even though I primarily use spotify for podcasts, the radio functionality is something I've used for like.... 8 years

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