Pandora's changing their billing terms
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Pandora is changing how they do billing by dropping the $36/annual subscription in favor of a $3.99/mo subscription for being a 'loyal' member, or $4.99/mo subscription for new members. There will be no annual pricing plan.
I am sad. Looks like pandora has started to venture towards netflix pricing. (Though to be fair, they are due a rate increase, and they aren't as bad as netflix yet. But why would you remove my annual billing!)
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Pandora is still around? I thought Spotify had killed them?
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Pandora is generally my primary radio station provider, though I'm not sure after this because I have a lot of music sources, and paying --anything-- monthly chafes. I'll happily pay an annual subscription fee at cost or cost+some, but seeing money drain out of my account every month when it's not takeout food is psychologically frustrating for me.
No it doesn't make sense.
But fucker, you took away the annual subscription that I pay once and forget about for a year. That's your fault!
I blame WOW and Netflix monthly debit services for this psychological trauma.
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Both Pandora and Spotify:
Dear valued customer, we are currently unable to provide our services in your poor-ass country. Please... <snicker> leave your email... <snicker>... so we can notify you.... BWAHAHAH! Who are we kidding? Why don't you just go torrent your mp3-s and leave the nice folk alone.
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Which country is that?
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I presume anything that's not USA, Western Europe or Australia. In my case, Serbia.
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I presume anything that's not USA, Western Europe or Australia. In my case, Serbia.
ProxMate is your mate, mate. No really, it works flawlessly, and since I live in a God-forsaken land, and need to get those Doctor Who episodes somehow...
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Both Pandora and SpotifyAlmost every online service that's worth paying for:> Dear valued customer, we are currently unable to provide our services in your poor-ass country. Please... <snicker> leave your email... <snicker>... so we can notify you.... BWAHAHAH! Who are we kidding? Why don't you just go torrent your mp3-s and leave the nice folk alone.
FTFY
And then people wonder why µTorrent is a part of almost any Windows install 'round these parts...
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FTFY
And then people wonder why µTorrent is a part of almost any Windows install 'round these parts...
Well, it's a convenient excuse anyway...
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I only use Pandora in my car, and only then, because it integrates with my head unit.
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And also apparently Sirius, which almost no one uses.
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I like Pandora. No ads. They're good for background music when I don't feel like managing a playlist or anything.
I'll use Spotify if I want to listen to something specific that isn't in my library, but their ad model is particularly heinous. It can tell if you reduce your system volume or mute it, then it pauses the ad until you change it back. I refuse to be annoyed into spending money on a Spotify subscription, so after a couple ad cycles I'm frustrated and gone.
Spotify is pretty good for listening to an album before I go buy the real physical CD.
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Maybe your country should develop its own damn video games industry.
... no seriously. More diversity in games would be awesome.
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Pandora has ads if you do not buy a subscription. Really annoying ones, at least in my area.
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I'm pretty sure they drop the quality of the music as well.
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@Intercourse said:
Pandora has ads if you do not buy a subscription. Really annoying ones, at least in my area.
I don't think I've ever seen an ad in Pandora, and I'm certainly not a subscriber.
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They insert audio ads in their stream.
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Serbia.
+1
Dear valued customer, we are currently unable to provide our services in your poor-ass country. Please... <snicker> leave your email... <snicker>... so we can notify you.... BWAHAHAH! Who are we kidding? Why don't you just go torrent your mp3-s and leave the nice folk alone...
I presume anything that's not USA, Western Europe or Australia.
More like any country the USA treats like Russia or the Middle East. Maybe you can proxy into neighboring Greece to get around it?
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Adblock will skip the ads.
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Maybe you can proxy into neighboring Greece to get around it?
You mean like just roll out an extension cable and I'm good to go? :-)
Not worth the effort.
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Maybe your country should develop its own damn video games industry.
... no seriously. More diversity in games would be awesome.
We tried that once - it turned out that we've made pretty much one single good game series (The Witcher), and a gazillion $3 bin fillers.
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Things kinda moving here, have a few now.
Still pissed about not being able to find Serious Sam in Croatian anywhere. Not sure if they voiced the entire game, maybe it was just a demo, but that thing was freaking hilarious, the English translation has nothing on it!
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voiced
Oh goodness, we've had our share of hilarious dubbing.
http://youtu.be/-XJ7gPTxPZ0?t=23s
Filed under: and that's not even mentioning our translations themselves
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Can't watch atm, but from the title... it was bad? I'm actually commending the Serious Sam one, it was funny! Intentionally funny.
Filed under: and that's not even mentioning our translations themselves
Wait... Poland... Oh $DEITY, is it Poland where all the dubs are monotonously read by a single guy?
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Can't watch atm, but from the title... it was bad? I'm actually commending the Serious Sam one, it was funny! Intentionally funny.
Ours are funny too. Teeth-grindingly funny.
Wait... Poland... Oh $DEITY, is it Poland where all the dubs are monotonously read by a single guy?
No, it's where we get high-profile, mostly TV series actors and miscast them horribly. Think Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sam Fisher. Or that guy who played Al Bundy, because why the hell not.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ah, yes, Arnie... Ultimate hilarity: watching an Arnie movie on German TV: an Austrian with a thick Austrian / German accent talking in English, dubbed back to German...
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The Witcher was the (unintentionally) funniest game I've ever played.