I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
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What even is Pandora?
It's online radio, where you can make stations built from a seed song/genre and then it tailors itself based on the thumbed up/down songs. Both interactions will give the selection algorithm more info to work with, but the thumb down will also immediately skip a song and prevent it from showing up again.
It used to be a really good service and was my primary music option, but it got bought by LiveNation and went into the shitter fast. Ads are completely out of control, but uBlock helps significantly ofc.
The algorithm also had a tendency to form your various stations into very samey sounding, but that may just be me using seed songs that are too similar and not being aggressive enough with the thumbs down.
I’ve been using a paid account on Pandora for well over a decade. I hadn’t realized that LiveNation bought them. That’s disappointing on a fundamental level. Would definitely explain a bit. With such a deep collection and a family subscription now, It’d be a tough migration away, but it might be time. Ugh.
I’ve repeatedly run into the same issue of my stations all starting to sound similar as well. I’m sure it’s from the seeds all being similar too.