Comments on: Pandora vs. Sirius: what's your online music listening style?

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:26:28 +0000

I quit XM since it stopped providing me with online radio and switched to listening to Pandora, CDs and other world radio stations. Soon I will also cancel XM in my car as well. XM also made numerous promises to me that were never kept. Such disrespect of customers will end up in demise of XM-Syrius.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:22:22 +0000

Yes, that's a huge downer, you're right !

By: schilke

schilke — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:54:31 +0000

Pandora has just one downside (from my perspective…): it stopped servicing a lot of countries outside the US for legal reasons

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:01:48 +0000

I will do, thank you!

Area does play some Oakenfold, but I'm definitely looking for the stuff with a harder edge to it. There's also a new station called BPM, but it's much more “dance” than electric music.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:45:34 +0000

When they renamed Area 38 to just Area (post merger), they changed the style completely. It used to be serious techno (Paul Van Dyke, Paul Oakenfold, Chemical Brothers, etc), now it has a much “lighter” or “dance” feel. Maybe they combined it with “The Beat” or something. For electronic music, take a look at my pandora or last.fm accounts, as well as louis gray on last.fm. That should give you a good start

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:39:34 +0000

I was deeply disappointed that Boombox and Backspin were dropped, though as I noted Backspin is apparently coming back. Area 38 is now called Area, and I actually listen to it quite a bit as a weak substitute for electro-rock. Electronica, I've only just recently discovered, is great in helping me to tune out distractions and focus on work.

I just noted on the FriendFeed thread that I probably should have mentioned that The Howard Stern Show puts Sirius over the top in this debate. If/when he leaves satellite, may be time to pull the plug on my subscription.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:18:37 +0000

I canceled my sirius subscription for financial reasons. The merger killed my 3 favorite stations, boombox, area 38 (which changed its style) and 36 (the beat?). It just wasn't the same, so dropping it was not a big deal. I do listen to Pandora most days and I would hate to lost that.