Recently, a co-worker was talking about how wonderful Spotify was, and I decided to give it a go. I signed up for the ultimate version, because, hey, if you’re going to try something, you should give it a fair shake. 
I’m also a Pandora One subscriber.
The end result is that I’m canceling my Spotify subscription and returning to Pandora. I’ll still use it when I really want to hear a specific song, but probably won’t spend much time in it.
You should know that 85% of the time, I’m a “Give me X genre of music” type of guy, not a “I want this song now” type of guy. I don’t like to spend time building playlists. I have better things to do.
So, here’s what I liked:
- The ability to listen to music offline.
- The ability to listen to pretty much any song I wanted.
- The price. $9.99 felt cheap.
Here’s what I didn’t like:
- Their “radio” feature is terrible!!! The Home Alone soundtrack is NOT classical.
- No ability to play music like the current version I’m playing.
- Finding similar artists works sometimes, but isn’t obvious.
- the ITunes interface. Have I mentioned how much I HATE the itunes interface?
- Manually administering my playlists. I just don’t want to spend the time, and I don’t want to listen to the same play list over and over.
So, because I usually find myself wanting to use the features in the dislikes group, I think Pandora is a better fit, even though I can’t always play a song that I want to hear when I want to hear it and even though it does repeat sometimes.
Where do you find yourself?