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Pandora and SoundCloud Join Forces to Launch 'The Lookout by SoundCloud'
Pandora is partnering with SoundCloud to bring a station called The Lookout by SoundCloud to Pandora, for up-and-coming hip hop artists.
T-Mobile Partners With Pandora, SiriusXM on Streaming for Customers
T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it’s teaming up with Pandora and SiriusXM to offer its customers exclusive streaming benefits.
Pandora Announces ‘Artist Takeovers’ With Guest Artists
Pandora announced a new feature for its music stations called Artist Takeovers. It features music handpicked by a different artist with special audio commentary.
The new Artist Takeover series began rolling out in recent months with Shawn Mendes, Chris Stapleton, and more. Artist Takeover Modes are a pop-up experience on stations, and selections from each carry over into Pandora Stories playlists for continued listening.
Artist Takeovers are an extension of Pandora Modes, a feature allowing you to customize your listening experience on favorite Pandora stations by offering a set of selectable “modes” that give more control over the kinds of songs that are played.
I think this sounds like a great feature. It brings to mind guest stars on Apple Radio 1.
Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio Celebrates 5th Anniversary With 50 Million Users
Since its launch five years ago, Pandora Thumbprint Radio has reached 50 million users with over 2 billion hours of music listening.
Pandora’s Holiday Music Enhanced with Modes and Stats
Pandora announced on Wednesday its holiday shows with seasonal Modes and a Soundboard Study.
Pandora has enhanced two of its most popular holiday stations, Holiday Hits and Christmas Radio. Both stations now feature Modes, a popular feature that allows you to customize your station listening experience based on a musical theme. Whether you want to tune into favorites from Christmas past or present, instrumentals or ensembles, covers or duets, Pandora has a Mode for every warm holiday feel.
Pandora HomePod Mini Support is Here
Pandora now supports the HomePod mini ahead of its launch on November 6. Juli Clover tells us the details.
According to Pandora, HomePod integration requires the latest version of the Pandora app. Once it’s installed, open the Pandora app on an iPhone or an iPad, and then select ProfileSettingsConnect With HomePodUse in Home to get it working. Music can be requested from Pandora by adding “on Pandora” to any Siri request for a song.
Pandora Will be Available on HomePod, HomePod mini
As we saw during Apple’s virtual keynote on Tuesday, Pandora joins other services by coming to the HomePod and HomePod mini.
With Pandora on HomePod, users will be able to easily play their favorite Pandora content and control their listening experience hands-free by using simple Siri voice commands, such as:
“Hey Siri, play some relaxing music on Pandora.”
“Hey Siri, play the Sway’s Interviews podcast on Pandora.”
Pandora will be available on Apple HomePod soon. Once available, users will be able to enable Pandora listening directly from HomePod by tapping this link via their iOS device
Pandora Partners With Hasbro to Create Gaming Playlists
If you’ve been playing board games with your family lately, you might appreciate Pandora’s newest announcement with Hasbro.
Pandora for Podcasters Launches for Creators
Pandora for Podcasters, as the name suggests, is a new platform that lets people submit their podcasts to Pandora. All you have to do is submit your RSS feed URL, answer a few questions, and your episodes will be added.
Podcasts on Pandora is powered by the Podcast Genome Project, which helps listeners cut through the overwhelming clutter of available podcasts to simply, easily find the podcasts they love…Starting today, creators who are new to the platform can submit their shows via Pandora for Podcasters here and start connecting with listeners ASAP.
Pandora Desktop App for Mac is Now Available
Pandora announced today that the Pandora desktop app for macOS is now available to download, giving you full-featured access to the streaming service.
Waze for iOS Gets Pandora Radio Integration
Pandora Radio announced today that Waze for iOS and Android will integrate with the streaming service.
Pandora Now Lets Users Pick the Algorithm That Selects Their Music
Pandora is now letting users select which algorithm their music is picked by. The music streaming service added 5 choices on top of its classic algorithm, The Verge reported. The new options, called Pandora Modes, are available to both free and premium account holders.
There are now 6 listening modes: My Station, which is Pandora’s original algorithm; Crowd Faves, which will favor the songs that get the most thumbs-ups by other users in that station; Deep Cuts, which will serve up lesser-known songs by an artist or in a genre; Discovery, which will play more artists that aren’t usually on that station; Newly Released, which will only pick the newest songs from an artist or in a genre; and Artist Only, which will let you binge entirely on a single artist’s catalog.
Pandora Launches its Podcast Platform Today
There are over 100,000 episodes covering a wide range of topics.
Pandora Podcasts Engine Launches in Beta Today
It will mix human curation and algorithms to suggest podcasts for you.
The Hackindog Episode - TMO Daily Observations 2018-08-10
Dave Hamilton and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to look at Apple’s ongoing problems with the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, and Pandora’s plan to improve podcast discoverability. John also inspires Jeff to coin the term “hackindog.”
SongShift Lets You Transfer Apple Music Playlists to Other Services
There’s an app called SongShift that lets you transfer Apple Music playlists to other services. Supported services include Apple Music, Deezer, Discogs, HypeMachine, LastFM, Napster, Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube. You can “shift” complete playlists from one streaming service to another, and automatically keep all of your playlists synced with each other. I’ve heard some Apple customers say that when they unsubscribe from Apple Music, then re-subscribe later on, none of their playlists and content is saved. I’ve never unsubscribed yet so I haven’t run into this issue, but it sounds like SongShift can help in these cases. App Store: SongShift – Free
How Many Songs Are Available on the Top Streaming Music Services?
We did some research and figured out how many songs are in each of the big music streaming service libraries such as Apple Music, Spotify, annd Amazon Prime Music.
Enjoy Your Music Without a Smartphone
The Streamz headphones are getting funding on Kickstarter now to free your music.
Pandora Plus Offers Unlimited Skips, Offline Playback for $5 Per Month
Pandora Plus is a new streaming radio plan which offers unlimited skips and offline playback for $5 per month, a price the company hopes will entice users who haven’t been convinced to pay $10 per month for full on-demand streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify.
Pandora Inks Deals with Sony and Universal as it Prepares to Take on Apple and Spotify
Apple Music is about to get a new, yet familiar, competitor. Pandora today announced that it has secured licensing agreements with two major music labels, positioning the company to soon enter the on-demand music streaming industry currently dominated by Apple and Spotify.
Sonos's Future: Opening Up Control to Alexa and Third-Party Apps
On Tuesday, wireless speaker manufacturer Sonos summoned the press to Manhattan to show off some new software features they’ve been working on and, in doing so, painted a picture of a more open Sonos experience. Demonstrating Amazon Alexa voice control and Spotify app integration, Sonos showed a not-too-distant future where customers have the ability to control their Sonos products in a variety of new ways without sacrificing any of the existing benefits of the Sonos platform.