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Spotify launches streaming radio

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Spotify , an online music streaming service that allows users to browse through a large catalog of music, and play any song on-demand, has announced today that it is getting the business of streaming radio. In the new Spotify iOS app, users will be able to choose a song, artist, album, or playlist, and Spotify will create a "radio" station based on that selection. The station will play songs that are similar to the selection made originally, and will alter its selections based on likes and dislikes users give to specific songs. This seems like an open attack at Pandora , which does exactly the same thing, and has been doing so for close to 6 years.  Spotify is free to use in the U.S., with premium subscriptions available, but the iOS app only offers limited features to non-paying customers. The new iOS app, which is out now, offers the new radio feature to all costumers, even non-p aying ones, however, non-premium costumers will occasionally be interrupted by audio ads

Pandora adds Comedy; Users Everywhere just Laugh

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      Pandora , the extremely popular online music streaming service, has recently added comedy tracks to it's library of millions of songs. Comedy Tracks on Pandora      The service analyzed music and artists, and was able to give users more music similar to any music track. With this new update, Pandora now analyzes comedians by their style, and will give you more comedy tracks similar to that style.       This could be a very good decision for Pandora, as it brings them slightly further away from just music, and closer to something which you could actually use to find new comedians and       Also, although you wouldn't think that this would launch with many titles, I had no problem finding everything I wanted. Best of all, all this is %100 free. Can't beat that. View the  Official Press Release .