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Skip all you like with Spotify Radio

The good folks of Spotify are certainly changing things up. Last week they announced the addition of music based apps to their service, and now they’re taking on Pandora. “We’ve built a radio app on top of our platform,” said Spotify co-founder and Chief Executive Daniel Ek during his announcement at LeWeb. “It’s kind of like Pandora, but with unlimited skipping and unlimited stations.” Up until now, Spotify has only allowed subscribers to play the specific songs or albums they chose. With stations, users can now choose a category and let Spotify do the picking. And, the unlimited skipping is likely to be a big draw. In contrast to Pandora – where skipping is limited due to the fact that they pay music labels by the song – if subscribers dislike the Spotify song choice they can skip to the next one as many times as they like. According to the company’s official blog post: “Starting a radio station is easy. Click ‘Start Artist Radio’ at the top of any artist page or just drag a track to ‘Radio’ in the left sidebar

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Skip all you like with Spotify Radio