i heart radio



Does anyone else have this app? It's the absolute best way to listen to the music you love with zero commercials.
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Haven't tried it yet. I've tried Pandora and Slacker. They are both good but Slacker has a many commercials.
The link you provided does not connect.
iheart is good, but for anyone who is willing to "splurge" three or four bucks a month, Pandora One rocks. iheart allows 15 skips per day, Pandora skips are unlimited. iheart let's you seed your station with just one artist; with Pandora it's unlimited, and you can remove them if the station takes a wrong turn. You can also seed Pandora stations with individual songs.

But the biggest difference is that iheart tends to deliver songs based on the artist, while Pandora does it based on the actual music content. For example, on iheart up-rating William Shatner's "Common People" would probably lead to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and other awful songs by novelty singers. Up-rating it on Pandora would probably lead to actually similar music by Pulp, Joe Jackson, and some obscure bands you never heard of. If you're open to new music, I think that's better.

You can "seed" your stations through a song title.
I really don't agree with much else you argued.
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Originally posted by: treegirl
You can "seed" your stations through a song title...
No you can't. This is how Pandora and iheart are functionally different:

If I'm a fan of both Shooter Jennings and Christina Perri, in Pandora I simply seed with both of them. Done! But with iheart, if I start with a Jennings station, I will never, ever, EVER be able to up-rate a song by Perri, because one of her girly songs would never show up on the Shooter Jennings station.

If your musical tastes fit into one of those narrow categories designed by radio programmers, this is not a problem. But if your tastes are more eclectic and have not solidified, it is a problem. My Pandora just went from a song by Colbie Caillat to one by Steve Earle. And every once in a while, Pavarotti may show up. Try doing that on iheart.
Pandora = devil

iheart = Good!
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