Pandora vs Last.fm

**muna** · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 2929 Location: South Florida

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We have probably been exposed enough to both of these websites and programs to know what they are all about. My question to you, my fellow scoreheroers is, which of these programs do you prefer AND WHY? I don't want this to turn into a poll thread without substance and I see some good potential for discussion and even some intelligent argument here.

I personally use both right now. On my phone I use Pandora, on my XBox I use last.fm, and on my computer I alternate in between the two. I am hoping to stick to one program, but can't decide which one (which is partially why I opened this thread).

I don't know if this is appropriate here as it doesn't relate directly to a specific genre of music, so if it doesn't then I apologize and kindly asked for it to be moved to General Chat.
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**Twang** · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

I'm not all that familiar with Pandora, but does it scrobble too? If not, I'm obliged to go with Last.fm. I'm a chart whore.

**thecaptainof** · Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 7571 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Last.fm gets my vote by default 'cos Pandora isn't available where I live, or at least wasn't last time I checked. That said, I honestly struggle to think of a more useful online music service than last.fm, particularly since it became available on the Xbox, so I'd probably say that even if we had both.
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**TheZ116** · Joined: 30 Jan 2009 Posts: 145 Location: San Diego

Last.fm, seeing as Pandora bends over to ads and the inability to do other stuff than listen to music.
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**ScreamingEvil** · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 726 Location: Leeds, UK

Last.fm is my choice, mostly as I can't use Pandora in the UK. Plus I find last.fm pretty easy to use and generally comes up with a good mix of bands I can just chill to when I don't really care what artists I want to listen to. I use the Recommended Radio station on there quite alot for background music when I'm doing uni work.

My only slight complaint with last.fm is the recommended station does seem heavily influenced by what you were just listening to, which can be a bit annoying.
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**lazor** · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 1079

Seeing as they have entirely different purposes I have to go with both.

**Strykerx** · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3110 Location: Pants

Pandora is mostly just for radio.

Last.fm is for keeping track of your music, discussing artists and their individual songs, and the radio is pretty much just thrown in.

So yeah, pretty much different purposes.
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**cobainage1994** · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2020 Location: Whitewater , WI

As of late, the only artist i have been listening to is the Beatles. When I do Last FM on my Xbox, I get NO songs by the Beatles. I get some songs by Beatles members, but none by the band themselves. However, when i use pandora on my computer I get plenty of Beatles songs.

So, based on my personal preference, I would have to go with Pandora.

**vanrulzz** · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 461

**ortiz1193** · Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 2227 Location: Shreveport, LA

Pandora feels way more user-friendly to me. I heard about it and had absolutely no trouble with it as soon as I found the site. When I tried out last.fm it just felt confusing to me, so I stick with Pandora.
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**TheLonging** · Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 4191

I prefer Pandora when I want to discover new music (which Pandora does for me, and it's gotten me into Green Day (you can stop laughing now) and Trivium). On the other hand, I'm a chart whore, and I've used last.fm longer. So last.fm.
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