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Never heard of stations before today, wish I got a chance to try it though. Looks like it came out just after they removed the radio feature from the main app. Damn...

I tried Pandora, I think for a year or two. It's alright but after a while I started falling into the same artist bubbles I experienced with post-radio Spotify. It's owned by Sirius which isn't doing so well (and I can't stand their marketing practices) so I can't imagine they've got as much resources to devote as Spotify. The app is a little buggy and rudimentary but not completely lacking polish.

The behavior when your Internet drops out (like if you happen to go driving out in the sticks) leaves a lot to be desired, but you can save playlists so it's not a huge deal. There's this one live version of a song that just does not want to stay deleted from my playlist. Oh, and you can't use it outside of North America without a VPN. It's little stuff, it's not experience-breaking for the most part.

I do like that you switch between different algorithms for a radio station. Something like "fan favorites", "artist only", "deep cuts", maybe one or two more options. It's overall not a bad alternative, the bad parts obviously stick in my head better than the good but I'd probably still be using it weren't for my European friends all using Spotify and sharing songs/playlists with me like that.

Nah I'm not talking about stations, I'm talking about radio. It was like, the main feature of Spotify for a while.

The "radio" you can make nowadays isn't a radio at all, it's a static playlist and a lot of the times the playlist it generates is just 50% ripped from my listening history, resulting in artist bubbles that for me have proven impossible to escape. Same deal for the music they generate when a playlist ends. A bunch of playlists paired with an algorithm that doesn't accept feedback simply cannot fill the role that was the original Spotify radio.

I remember when it was a literal radio feature in Spotify and it was this but the algorithm was decent and you could curate different stations.

Oh no, some troll on the internet thinks I'm the one with issues. What will I ever do.

Yeah they probably serve it to certain demographics like "men between 25 and 45" or something.

I've never gotten ads even close to what they describe but probably because I'm a woman and fall on the elder end of gen z. So I get God awful temu and tiktok ads and then what I assume is just served to the general populace like whatever latest child mower they're calling a consumer truck these days.

The temu and tiktok ads that seem to be intentionally engineered to provoke extreme negative emotions such as discomfort and irritation, that force your attention on the screen by overloading your ears with so much noise that you feel compelled to take in some amount of visual information to ease the shock, and then tacking on hashtag slogans at the end; like "oddly satisfying" after a video of a fucking butcher knife cutting through colorful play sand or "shop like a billionaire" after yelling at me about cheap Chinese goods, both of which only serving as reminders of the current state of society at large and pushing me ever so closer to a state of blind rage; are what finally pushed me to install vanced on my android.

It's psychological torture and it should be against international human rights law.