How to Enjoy Internet Radio with Sites like Pandora in 2023

by Dan Sullivan

Pandora is greatly known for its music and internet radio services. It has its ups and downs. Pandora is known for its great audio quality. It is a free platform to enjoy your music streaming. But as time evolves, many developments have been made to give you various features for you to enjoy your music streaming related services. So, this post is dedicated to you enjoying your music in your best way. This post deals with various alternatives that also gives you similar or more features like the Pandora.

Listen to Internet Radio and Music from Best Pandora Alternatives

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Spotify

Spotify


Spotify is one of the famous Pandora alternatives and it is coming as the first on our list. It opened for operation in 2008 and served as a platform for streaming music in Sweden. With its growing number of users, it is proving itself worthy. It is also Sweden's most popular website for streaming music. This music outlet has grown over time, and has now extended its reach across the world's different countries. Some of those nations are, to mention a few; Germany, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. This website works well on various devices and operating software like Android, Mac Windows, iOS. It can be installed on your various devices as an application. It is easy to use for browsing your desired song by record label, album, genre, artist and many more search filters. Spotify has 2 versions. These are the free and the Premium versions. Its free version has some limitations; it only fits well on desktops. It is not free of ads. Like Pandora, Spotify also provides premium service that helps cut-out the restrictions. The premium version operates on any computer with a $10/month subscription fee. This on-demand music web site focuses on social media and collaboration with Last.fm. It makes the music easy for users to share and track.



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Jango

Jango



Another lovely alternative to Pandora is Jango. One supreme feature about this platform is that it is accessible from anywhere in the world. It also works well on various platforms such as Windows, iOS, Android, Mac. Though Pandora and Jango's way of operation seems similar, they do have different recommendations. Jango's recommendation is defined by the actions of its users while the Music Genome Project decides songs choices on Pandora. Founded in 2007, Jango is a free music known for its custom radio stations. It allows users to create and customize their music stations, skip tracks with no limitations.

Jango's radio station service allows users to create their own radio station, share it in no amount among friends on the Jango platform. This service gives users access to pick any song or artist they want. Jango, then auto-fills music and choice relevant artists in the blanks. It then provides an outlet for users to rate artists and songs as they perform to impact the pace at which they play. Jango is also known for its social network, which links people on its website with the same musical choice. It has no premium version but relies on music sales, banner ads and advertising. Though free it includes one-per-day display ads, in particular audio ads.




Slacker

Slacker


Slacker is another alternative to Pandora. It runs on different devices like iOS, Android, and Windows. Slacker is segmented into three different levels of account. These are the free version, level two / plus version and premium version. The free version is supported by ads while the plus version eliminates all ads and also allows some extra features. The premium version eliminates all limitations and entitles users to select songs on demand. This platform allows users to create their own radio station by genre, artist or individual songs. It also offers plenty of potential for customization. Slacker has many customers; over 25 million regular users, and almost all brands are in licensed deals with Stalker. It is also rooted with a lot of expert designed radio stations.




Musicovery

Musicovery



Musicovery is yet another Pandora's alternative. It is known to be a custom web radio platform. It focuses on individual choices of songs rather than artists and genres as the basis for discovering music. This site likely gives users more freedom to find more music than sites that concentrate on matching artists.

Musicovery works in a manner that relates to Pandora. It also allows site users listen to and rate songs to personalize their listening experience. It works well on many devices like iOS devices and mobile phones. It also allows users to search by date for songs and also to delete genres in which they are not interested.


Deezer

Deezer



It is an alternative platform for Pandora. It is an easy platform to use though it may seem difficult in the beginning. Deezer enables you to listen on demand to different tracks, and also create custom playlists. It works well on Android, Mac, Windows and iOS. This platform is also built with "radio stations" and is called "Flow" and "Hear". It gives users the opportunity to listen to custom music mixes. The catalog is packed with over forty million songs in over twenty-four genres. This is more than many other music apps. Deezer provides its services in three models: Discovery, Premium and Elite. The discovery model is supported with ads. The premium model costs $9.99 and the premium model is filled with unlimited streaming music services for $14.99.



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iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio

Popular online radio service, iHeartRadio has been running since 2008. This website provides users with music recommendations, as well as a radio network aggregator. This helps to put together content from various stations. It is one of the largest online radio streaming platforms that exists. Like many others, iHeartRadio does not allow users from rewinding or fast-forwarding tracks. You can build your own radio playlist, conduct artist searches for songs. You can also play music according to your mood, and listen to live radio broadcast stations.


Last. FM

Last. FM

Last.fm is very common alternative to Pandora. It has access to recommend songs and concerts depending on the genre of music you listen to. It allows users to find music. It also allows users communicate without difficulty with people with a similar taste of music. This great website offers suggestions and factions to users. This makes it stress-free to discover songs and connect to other users with the same music interest. Xbox lovers or users may use Xbox live subscription to link to Last.fm paid features. It offers it services in two versions. The free and premium version. The premium version has a lot of interesting features. Last.fm has a large music library. Users can build a music profile by listening to their song selection from their device or using the Last.fm Internet radio service. This process is referred to as scrobbling which involves music tracking and log formation.

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Google Play Music

Google Play Music

Google Play Music is one of Pandora's leading alternatives. It provides a lovely interface of any current streaming music service. It has about 35 million albums, on demand as well as on-air. Google Play Music and Pandora offers almost similar services. Google bought the amazing Songza engine that auto recommends good mixes of songs based on day time, mood, and even action. You can upload your music and stream the songs from anywhere, to the benefit of your very frequent streaming.

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Amazon prime music

  Amazon prime music



Amazon music is one of the popular services for music streaming, too. It is an alternative to Pandora. Apple Music, like iTunes, is yet another application owned by Apple. It cannot be used for free but it offers a free trial that lasts for three months and costs between $10 and $15 a month. After subscription you have unrestricted access to different music without commercials. It offers quality music streaming platform. It has an ad-free on-demand downloading of songs system from a very large music library. It allows you arrange your music into custom playlists. You can use songs as starting pads for custom radio stations, like on Pandora. And with the 'Connect' function, you can listen to radio stations compiled by popular DJs and artists. You also get to see what's coming out next from your favorite bands and singers.



Grooveshark

Grooveshark

Grooveshark is one of the well-known music streaming sites like the Pandora. This offers users with all the core functions and facilities, plus adds a few more functions. Owing to one of its added features (music upload) option Grooveshark is currently working on some situations. It is facing some problems, fights and controversies. Users get an uncommon opportunity to upload their own song(s) using this app. And because of this functionality, they are currently facing copyright problems. Grooveshark also provides some other nice features such as tracks, playlist, user follow-ups. It allows users to connects music lovers from various other music streaming websites.

 

After reading through this post, you must have chosen your choice among these alternatives to Pandora. Which one is your pick? Which one do you find satisfying to your needs? Have you been using it before? If yes, what are those features that you like about it? If no, then make your choice, give it a trial and enjoy your music as you so want.

Drop your answers and comments and let's hear about how you enjoy streaming your music.

About Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is a renowned professor and esteemed education writer with a passion for inspiring students and transforming the field of education. With a diverse background in academia and practical teaching experience, he has become a leading figure in educational research and pedagogy.

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