Pandora will let you listen to whatever song you want without signing up for a $10-a-month subscription, by giving you a 15-second video ad to watch instead. The new feature is aimed to help Pandora better compete with Spotify, the biggest streaming-music service that offers free on-demand listening, by holding people’s hands to becoming subscribers. …
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Sonos has enabled voice control of Spotify via its Alexa-powered devices, including the brilliant Sonos One speaker. Now Sonos owners can ask Alexa for artists, songs, albums or playlists and have Spotify serve up the music. The Sonos One originally launched with a choice of either Amazon Music or Pandora as the default music service, but Spotify went missing. The Alexa app, which is …
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Just like sound bars, the sweet spot for Wi-Fi speakers are at the budget end. In this case, it’s under $200. Sure, paying up to $500 will get you a bigger cabinet and better sound, but at that point you are probably better off with a sound bar or stereo system. And plenty of options cost less than $200, but …
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Pandora has announced that Sonos users are now able to control their hardware directly via the Pandora app in a way similar to Spotify Connect. Unlike Spotify Connect, however, the app will let you control your Sonos system regardless of which subscription level you have — even the free tier will work. The app lets you select and play music, …
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Pandora is ratcheting up its human touch. The music streaming service unveiled “featured playlists” Monday, its latest gambit at appealing to music listeners by promising to surface music they’ll like. The playlists, which are picked and refreshed by curators, are available to people who subscribe to Premium, Pandora’s $10-a-month competitor to Spotify and Apple Music that lets you listen to …
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Music-streaming service Pandora has chosen Roger Lynch, chief executive of Sling TV, to be its new CEO and president, after a leadership shakeup in June. Lynch is the founding CEO of Sling TV, Dish Network‘s online service for live TV that launched in 2015. He will also join Pandora’s board of directors when he starts his new job next month, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Alexa, do these things on my phone 1:42 Amazon’s Alexa is coming to phones. We’ve seen it on the Huawei Mate 9 and now it’s here for the HTC U11, the phone you can squeeze. But the Alexa voice app works a little differently on the U11. There are still some things you can’t do on the …
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Pandora has put its leadership on shuffle. Co-founder Tim Westergren has stepped down as CEO, and two other longtime executives will also leave their posts, Pandora said Tuesday in a statement and in a letter to shareholders. At the same time, the streaming music company is adding a big name to its board of directors: media-world luminary Jason Hirschhorn. Tim Westergren …
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Pandora is shutting down its operations in Australia and New Zealand, the only countries where the internet radio operates besides the US. The Oakland, California-based company said Tuesday the decision to close operations in the two countries was based on a desire to focus more on growth on its home turf. The move comes amid a management shakeup at the …
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