Pandora Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Turntable.fm releases Piki app, for music recommendations and streaming

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

Turntable.fm is one of the many social streaming music sites out there -- it allows you and your friends to stream music and even listen in together to your favorite albums and songs. The company already has its own standalone app for the App Store, but it's trying a new tactic now to grab ...

Streaming radio may be the next frontier for Apple's music efforts

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 1st, 2013)

In a rather interesting article last week detailing music service Pandora's ongoing struggle with record labels' streaming fees, The Verge says that "iRadio," Apple's rumored Pandora competitor, is being primed for a launch this Summer. "Much has been written about Apple's plan to launch a ...

Record labels laugh at Apple's proposed royalty rate for streaming service

by Steven Sande (Mar 7th, 2013)

The New York Post has an exclusive today about Apple's attempts to get rights from record labels for a proposed music streaming service, which are apparently falling on deaf ears because its offer is "seen as way too cheap." A high-level executive at one label told the Post that "Apple wants ...

Microsoft's Xbox Music to challenge iTunes, others

by Steven Sande (Oct 15th, 2012)

Microsoft has announced Xbox Music, a digital music service designed to work initially with the 67 million Xbox gaming consoles that have been sold since 2005. With Xbox Music, Microsoft wants to challenge the dominance of Apple's iTunes and services like Pandora. The service debuts on the ...

Apple is developing Pandora-like music service, Wall Street Journal reports (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 6th, 2012)

A tweet from the Wall Street Journal's Dennis Berman states that Apple is developing a streaming-music service that is similar to Pandora. The news comes six days before Apple's September 12 media event. Berman said details will be posted on the Wall Street Journal's site shortly. We'll ...

iMore compares top music streaming services for the iPhone

by Matt Tinsley (May 2nd, 2012)

iMore has conducted an in-depth comparison of three of the most popular music streaming services available for the iPhone: Spotify, Pandora and Slacker. As mentioned in the article, iTunes is certainly king when it comes to the purchase of digital music, but undoubtedly, there's an ever ...

Spotify lifts track limits on free accounts, struggles to stand out in streaming market

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2012)

Good news for European fans of the streaming music service Spotify: The company has lifted the five-track replay limit per day for users of the free service in Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain. Additionally, US users will get their current six-month free trial extended, but ...

Musicality: AirPlay popular music services to enabled speakers

by Erica Sadun (Feb 17th, 2012)

Musicality (US$9.99) offers one-app access to Pandora, Last.fm, and Grooveshark streaming music services. What's more, it adds in extra features that integrate with Growl notifications (so you can immediately see what song is playing, even when the app itself is hidden) and AirPlay. It's this ...

Slacker Radio tries to break through a flooded streaming music market

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

One of our final meetings at CES last week was with Slacker Radio's VP of Marketing, Jonathan Sasse, who sat down in a Las Vegas lobby restaurant to tell us what his company has been up to lately. Slacker Radio is one of the many streaming radio offerings that have apps available on the App ...

Nominate your favorite iPhone music app for TUAW's Best of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Spotify to challenge Pandora with Spotify Radio

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 11th, 2011)

Spotify already has proven itself a formidable competitor for Rdio, and the all-you-can-stream music service even matches up against iTunes with a subscription model versus iTunes' track-at-a-time sales approach. Now it's aiming the crosshairs at suggestion engine Pandora with a revamp of its ...

Daily Mac App: Spotify

by Samuel Gibbs (Dec 5th, 2011)

Now that Spotify is available on both sides of the pond, it's about time we took a quick look at it. Free streaming music apps don't get much better than Spotify. Right now you can stream any track in the Spotify library for free with a pretty decent desktop Mac app. It's not available in the ...

Daily Mac App: Pandoras Box

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 21st, 2011)

I enjoy integrating Pandora into my music rotation along with my iTunes library and Spotify, but doing so on the desktop either means keeping another web browser window up or downloading Pandora's desktop client for OS X. Pandoras Box does a good job in condensing the service down to a menu bar ...

Pandora Media offering IPO tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2011)

Music service Pandora is set to introduce its stock to the public tomorrow, becoming one more in a series of social networking and online service companies going with an IPO. Pandora isn't specifically an iOS company, of course, given that its music service runs both through browsers and on a ...

App developers could face US privacy investigation

by Dana Franklin (Apr 6th, 2011)

Hey app, did you just send my personal data or my phone's unique electronic identification number over the internet without my permission? Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are trying to answer this question in an ongoing investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports. The federal probe aims to ...