Goodsounds;330116 Wrote: > Pandora has a revenue and business model problem, the article > acknowledges this is their main focus. Most venture-backed start-ups > don't have 8 years (as Pandora apparently has had) to get to any > semblance of break-even, the plug gets pulled much sooner.
And they've had almost a year and a half to figure out a response to the SoundExchange rate increase: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33447 Pandora's such a nice idea, but its suggestions have always struck me as heavily weighted toward RIAA stuff I've already heard, and often already own. Today they not only played a 16 year old song that not only was a relatively big hit back then, they also identified it as coming from the Greatest Hits compilation. That's no way to introduce me to new music. :-( Perhaps if Pandora played truly indie (non-RIAA) material they could work out some royalty deals outside the expensive SoundExchange licensing. And I'd have more reason to try them again, and perhaps subscribe. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51180 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
