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Let's get the first thing out of the way: Pandora Premium doesn't yet have support for devices like the Amazon Echo, though the company says it's coming soon. This leads me to my final point: the Amazon Echo. It seems like something Pandora should be capable of at least offering as an option, but right now, it gets convoluted. I love listening to classical music, and while I might have a preference for a particular orchestra, in my radio stations I would rather have Pandora favor tracks it has on-demand rights to, or let me save a similar version of the song to My Music if it doesn't. Broadly, Pandora needs a better way of bridging that divide between radio-only songs and on-demand ones. This two-version problem might be something Pandora fixes over time, but it speaks to a wider issue. What gives? What happened was that there were two versions of the song in Pandora, which likely happens if the song is released as a single, and Pandora has one marked as radio-only. So I searched directly for the song and, lo and behold, Can't Stop the Feeling was right there, with an on-demand license. That's odd, I thought, surely they have the rights to JT. While testing the service, I went into the Pop and Hip Hop Power Workout station and noticed that Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop the Feeling appeared in gray, as if Pandora didn't have an on-demand license for it. Those songs appear as gray and can only be used for radio functionality, so you can't save them to playlists or skip ahead to them. The first is that many of Pandora's radio songs are not licensed for on-demand. Pandora is betting its future on a new on-demand music service called 'Premium' - here's what it's like to use While testing the service, I went into the "Pop and Hip Hop Power Workout" station and noticed that Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling" appeared in gray, as if Pandora didn't have an on-demand license for it. And if a Taylor Swift song popped up but was gray, I wouldn't be mad about it.īut what does get annoying is that Pandora doesn't seem to favor songs that are in its on-demand library over ones where it doesn't have the license, and that creates problems. I understand why Pandora has chosen to keep those songs integrated into the Pandora Premium radio stations, even though you can't do things like save them or skip ahead. Pandora pointed to Taylor Swift as an example. When I asked Pandora about those gray songs, a spokesperson said they weren't a function of any outstanding record label deals that still needed to be signed, but rather represented songs that on-demand services generally didn't have. Those songs appear as "gray" and can only be used for radio functionality, so you can't save them to playlists or skip ahead to them. The first is that many of Pandora's "radio" songs are not licensed for on-demand. The big problem is that, in practice, this lovely interface is hampered by a few things.
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