iTunes Radio VS Pandora

Internet Radio has gone a long way from playing the list of your favourite songs and has become more commercialized playground for all the Apple users with big tech and media companies. So for the management of your Music collection into more comfortable with delivery of digital Music there comes an iTunes Radio and Pandora which have proved a big hit with listeners. So have a look to the their features and importance of using this program in real life. Here we will give a full introduction about iTunes Radio and Pandora.

• Part 1: iTunes Radio
• Part 2: Pandora
• Part 3: iTunes Radio VS Pandora
• Part 4: How to Listen to Pandora or iTunes Radio Offline and Free?

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Part 1: iTunes Radio

iTunes Radio is a free and ad supported services that are available to all iTunes users, featuring Siri integration on iOS where the users are able to skip the tracks, customize station and also purchase the songs from the iTunes store. iTunes radio lets you create personalized station based on one or more artists, songs, genres of your choice that makes an attractive alternative to your iTunes library. It you are driving and you have got a big album at front and center you can call Siri to do things like play, pause to play any track. You can also ask Siri to give you song title or skip a song.

Features:

•    iTunes Radio stations are great for discovering both new hits and lesser known songs.

•    If you want to purchase music from within the service is simple and seamless process.

•    iTunes Radio’s clean and intuitive layout will make an easy control playback with fine-tune stations and even make purchases.

•    iTunes radio has sizable music catalog that audiophiles’ finds attractive.

•    You can create a new station in an easy way from your Home screen and running a search.

Pros:

•    The music library is significantly larger than Pandora.

•    There is availability to personalized playlist and download it and keep it offline.

•    iTunes Radio will automatically allow you to purchase the currently playing song from iTunes store.

•    iTunes is integrated with iOS7 Music App.

Cons:

•    There is no music options like talk radio, news or sports and there is no access to live internet but iTunes radio is the best way to listen to programmed radio on iOS.

•    It has a minor difficulty to navigate through, but once you have learned how to navigate you’ll not face this difficulty.

•    You can’t manually select the song just you can hope that iTunes radio gets it right ads auto playlist selection is also very lacking.

Part 2: Pandora

You can get free and great music discovery effortless with free Pandora by just starting with the name of one of the favourite artists, songs, genres or composers. Here in Pandora it’s easy to create and personalized stations and play music that you love to listen. You can tap into entire world of music including old and new and can create up to 100 personalized radio stations with your free account.

Features:

•    Pandora has a simple platform which encourages voting songs and sounds by using the smart algorithm which takes the work out of picking music.

•    It’s one of the best free music streaming services since it was available for US.

•    It’s cool to see the lyrics for most of those songs with full length Tracks so here you can read the lyrics.

•    You can track all the activities like leaving comments, sharing a station, or else any public activities while listening songs.

•    You can now share your whole station or any single track to twitter and Facebook as well as Pandora profile.

•    Pandora is a social networking site where you can make friends, follow people, comment on profile page and more other activities can also be done.

•    Other than computer browsers, you can also listen to Pandora music anywhere in your mobile phone, cars, TV and more.

Pros

•    Users can refine their favourite channels by clicking thumbs up on the songs they enjoy and thumbs down on the songs they don’t want to hear it again.

•    Pandora does a really good job of keeping up to date with the current music that perfectly matches your taste. The app can directly sense what kind of music you like to listen.

•    Basic mobile app version is free with ads.

Cons

•    There is a limitation in selection of music with only 1/20th of the song.

•    Rewind and repeat is not possible as they do not nearly allow enough skips.

•    Pandora has a comparatively minuscule 1 million tracks.

Part 3: iTunes Radio VS Pandora

iTunes Radio will give an audio ad accompanied by an image in album art box whereas Pandora seems to bombard not only audio ads but will also show pop-ups and full screen interstitials that will annoy you. Undoubtedly iTunes Radio will offer a less intrusive experience.

Comparison	iTunes Radio	Pandora
Music Library	27 million	1 million
Mobile	iOS	Android, iOS, WP, BB
Free Version	Yes	Yes
Premium Offering	$24.99/year	$4.99/month
Year of Release	2013	2005
Platforms	iOS, Apple TV, Mac OS, Windows	iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Mac OS, Windows
Skip limit	Not applicable	6 per hour per station, 24 per day for all stations
Offline Listening	No	No
App Availability	iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Roku, Sonos	iOS, Android, Windows Phone, PlayStation, Xbox
Country Range	U.S (coming soon to UK and Canada)	U.S, Australia, New Zealand
Web Based	No	Yes
Premium Tier	$24.99/year	$36.00/year
Service User	Not Specified, 11 million	72 odd million
Audio Quality	Not specified	192 Kbps
Radio Stations	Custom and featured stations	Custom and genre station
Discovery of Music	Based on iTunes library	Based on person music preference
Music purchasing	Easy purchase on iTunes	More taps for purchasing on iTunes/Amazon
Social Integration	Twitter and Facebook	Twitter and Facebook
Bonus Features	Siri integration	N/A

Part 4: How to Listen to Pandora or iTunes Radio Offline and Free?

Pandora is a free music service which enables users to listen to music anywhere they want. There is no enrolment needed and discover music based on the tastes. Improve the tune by voting on the melodies that you like. If you want to get the Pandora or iTunes Radio and listen to offline, you can use Keepvid Music.

Features

Download Music & Videos from 10,000+ Sites

Organize your Entire Music Library

Manage Music without iTunes Restrictions

Use iTunes with Android

Share Your iTunes Playlist

Transfer Music Without Device Limitation

Fix id3 Tags, Covers

Delete Duplicate Song & Remove Missing Tracks

Burn Music to CD easily

Backup with one click

Convert to compatiable format automaticlly

The Perfect Music Downloader for iOS & Android

Step 1 Start Keepvid Music

Download and install Keepvid Music, then start it on your PC

Step 2 Choose Record Option

Choose Record option button at bottom.

Step 3 Record Pandora Music

Click to play Pandora music and Keepvid Music will automatically record the music in just one click by using record button.

Step 4 Locate the music in iTunes

As soon as the recording process is finished, choose iTunes library and click on icon to view the recorded songs and save the songs in Recorded Playlist. If you want to listen on the mobile, you can right click and add to your device.

We can conclude by saying that regardless these two services examines their qualities, but iTunes Radio and Pandora are so different from each other. Choose one you like!