Advantages And Disadvantages Of Pandora

When it comes to music streaming services and most popular music apps, one of the names that always pops out is Pandora. It used Music Genome Project and it is one of the favorites of millions of people worldwide. Nowadays, we have so many options when it comes to streaming music, such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Music, but Pandora manages to stay in the game. It offers free and premium service, and it has many great features. If you want to know more about it, this article is what you have been looking for. Keep on reading as we are going to share advantages and disadvantages of Pandora.

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Advantages and disadvantages of Pandora

No matter if some service is free or not, people want to know more about it before trying it out. We already talked about pros and cons of different music and video streaming services, and this time, we are going to talk about pros and cons of Pandora.

 Advantages of Pandora

Let’s start with the advantages of Pandora. There are so many things that make this streaming music service popular.

Free and Premium service

One of the pros of Pandora is that it offers free and premium service. You can choose a free service, but be ready to listen to the ads along with the music. It is the classic Pandora that exists for years. You can choose a musician you love, and you can create a playlist that will contain the songs from that musician and other similar ones. With a free service, you can’t skip the unlimited number of songs. There is a limit of six songs per hour.

If you don’t like this idea, you can choose Pandora Plus or Pandora Premium. They come with the price of 4.99$ and 9.99$ per month, respectively. With Pandora Plus, you can skip as many songs as you want, you will get the ad-free experience, along with the ability to rewind songs. Pandora Premium gives you even more. It is the music streaming service in its best light. You can fully customize playlists and you will also get unlimited offline mobile playback and more.

Acsess to the millions of songs with Pandora Premium

Even though we may say Pandora joined the music streaming game later than others, it still offers a lot. As so many people listened Pandora internet radio for years, many people may choose this service over the others. However, even with the fact Pandora joined the group in which we can find Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Music later than it should, you won’t be disapointed. On the contrary, you will get the access to 30 million songs. It is all pretty simple. Type the name of the song in the search box, listen to it and enjoy.

Features of Pandora Premium

Pandora Premium streaming service comes with so many cool features. You can create your own playlists, and use “add similar songs”. There is an option to buy tickets as the Pandora app comes with the Ticketfly interaction, which makes it all simple and fun. You can also share your playlists with others, but keep in mind that Pandora Premium subscribers are the only ones who will be able to play it.

Of course, there is Music Genome Project’s data that will help you easily find some new music based on the music you already love.

Available on different devices

You can play Pandora on different devices, such as your PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, Roku and Amazon device. But, we have to point out that you can’t play Pandora Premium on your PC or Mac, at least not for now.

Pandora Premium free trial

If you decide to try out Pandora Premium, you will get a free-trial that lasts for 30 days. You can explore this music streaming service and get the bigger picture. If you alredy tried out other services, make a comparision and decide if you want to pay for Pandora Premium each month, or for something else that may be more convinient for you.

Disadvantages of Pandora

Now that we know all the cool things about Pandora, let’s see the ones that aren’t cool.

Available only in the US, New Zealand and Australia

One of the biggest disadvantages of Pandora is that only the people who live in the US, New Zealand and Australia can play it. The rest of the world can’t. This is not so strange, there are many services that are available only in the limited number of countries, including Apple Music and Hulu.

No family plan for Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium

At the moment, Pandora doesn’t offer a family plan for Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium service. This is a huge disadvantage, because many similar services do offer such plans. In this area, Pandora is far behind its competitors.

Now you know advantages and disadvantages of Pandora. Have you used it before? Did you try Pandora Plus or the all new Pandora Premium service? Share your experience in the comment section below.