Pandora is a streaming radio service available for both the iPhone and iPad (not to be confused with on-demand style music locker services). Pandora focuses more on music discovery and curation. For folks who don't like to listen to the same things and prefer a more traditional radio like experience, Pandora is one of the best options currently available. By liking or disliking songs, Pandora gets to know your tastes and will play music that it thinks you'll enjoy. The more information you give Pandora, the smarter it gets.
Apple Podcasts automatically downloads episodes from podcasts that a listener is subscribed to (and listens to on a regular basis), while Spotify only begins downloading when a listener presses “play.” Unless Spotify changes the app's behavior, it's likely that Spotify will always average fewer downloads per unique device. Pandora's Apple Watch app will soon stream music without an iPhone. As long as you have a WiFi or data connection, you won't need your phone close. The likes of Spotify and Deezer still. However, today Spotify is finally rolling out a new update to the Spotify watchOS app that brings standalone streaming to your Apple Watch. With this feature you will finally be able to leave your iPhone behind when you go out for a run, for example, and stream Spotify songs from your Apple Watch straight to your Bluetooth earphones or AirPods.
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Basic radio streaming through Pandora is completely free. You can create up to 100 radio stations based on your favorite artists, songs, and albums. The basic model of Pandora is also ad supported and only provides so many track skips at a time. Pandora's paid subscription model, Pandora One, currently costs $3.99 per month. Paid subscribers enjoy an ad free experience along with even more skips per hour and unlimited stations. Other features of the Pandora for iPhone and iPad app include bookmarks which allow you to save tracks you really like so you can either purchase them on your own or start a station based on them. You can also tell Pandora when you're tired of a track so it doesn't keep looping it into a playlist you're listening to.
Apple recently released their own radio streaming service, iTunes Radio, to compete with offerings such as Pandora. Both services focus on providing a curated listening experience while encouraging users to actually buy the content they like instead of rent it, which is what services such as Rdio, Spotify, and Beats Music offer.
Aside from providing a universal app for both the iPhone and iPad, Pandora also provides a free Mac app for Pandora One subscribers, web listening, integration with Sonos, support for the Pebble smart watch, and integration with many more platforms and services.
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Spotify has finally started rolling out support for standalone streaming on its Apple Watch app. So, you don’t need an iPhone for listing to the Spotify library on your Apple Watch.
This feature arrives around two years after Spotify brought a dedicated app for Apple Watch. You need Apple Watch Series 3 or later with watchOS 6.0+ to stream Spotify directly on your Apple Watch.
Users only need a Wi-Fi or cellular network on Apple Watch with Spotify app and listen to via Bluetooth headphones or speakers. So, you don’t need to carry your iPhone if you are going for a run or walk. Simply go with Apple Watch for listening to your Spotify Libraries.
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This feature is a server-side update and the company has already enabled it for all users. However, offline listening is still not available.
Reports suggest that there is no search function on the Spotify app and users need to use Siri for the search.
Spotify is not the first Apple Watch app supporting standalone streaming. Apple’s own Apple Music service and Pandora support standalone playback on Apple Watch.