Top 5 Sites like Pandora that Can Let You Happily Enjoy Music

Rdio is a nice looking site with several features, on demand listening is one worth discussing, rather than finding a station that includes the genre or artist you want, you can simply search for a track you like and play it. This offers great flexibility, however it is only part of the premium fee paid service. It is worth noting though, that all features are enabled for 6 months even on a free account to let you try everything before having to pay, something Rdio should be commended for.

Sound quality for Rdio is amongst the best and the music library is huge, with 20 million different tracks available there is something for everyone.

Updated recently to be perhaps the nicest looking site for streaming audio, Slacker offers a clutter free and easy to use interface that allows you to enjoy the music without any fuss. The free option includes ads, whilst there are two levels of paid for service, the cheaper bringing an ad free experience, the premium level adding on demand music play to its list of features. Free versions are restricted to 6 track skips per hour, whilst the paid versions benefit from unlimited skips.

Although small by comparison to some, Slacker's 13 million track music library is huge in comparison to the 1 million of Pandora itself, and it produces excellent sound quality at all times.

Last.fm uses aspects of both social media and streaming to create a service that is very different to the others. It keeps a record of all the music you listen to (called scrobbling) and this can in turn be viewed by all your friends on the site, you can listen by station or import playlists from other services such as Rdio or Spotify. Last.fm also offers on demand music direct from artists and publishers for certain songs, usually part of promotional campaigns. The basic free service is ad supported, with the paid for version being the cheapest of such services.

Last.fm doesn't have an official music library track value, and sound quality is comparable to slacker.

This is a service that has been around a while, formally called MOG, Beats Music sells itself with its collation algorithms, claiming to provide the best music curation in the industry, and it also includes on demand paly of individual tracks and full albums too. It also has one of the largest music libraries around at over 20 million tracks. The interface is a step up from anything seen before, and it is clear that much effort has gone into presentation, even something as simple as selecting artists you like is done very well, and the service even allows you to download songs from within the interface itself.

There is no free option for Beats Music, although all users get a free trial to try it out before paying, but even in comparison to other paid for versions of its competitors it does have a huge number of features.Sound quality is another area where Beats Music differentiates, if your connection is fast enough it is exceptional, offering CD quality 320Kbps.

Jango is a free service, offering no paid for upgrade, and is again ad supported, although it does only show a single ad per day which is most welcome. Jango includes the familiar stations amd builds on them with on demand features, allowing you to choose specific tracks to play, and includes optional videos of the tracks within the interface where they are available.

Jango does not give information about its music library size, and it looks quite dated against some here in terms of usability and design, with the interface being somewhat awkward to use. However, it does have some nice options and has no regional restrictions.

Sound quality is about average for the group, although they do not disclose bitrates.