Spotify Stations: Stream radio Reviews

by BriDog 7

I really wish this worked reliably as it would be a great app for discovering new music, a Pandora substitute, but it just won’t keep playing. It plays for a bit, then keeps stopping no matter what you do. Very frustrating. When it does work, and you add multiple artists to a station, it plays 10 songs by the same artist in a row instead of mixing it up. Can’t believe SpotifyStations has not been updated in 8 months. I keep hoping they would fix these issues. Keep wishing I had kept Pandora. I just don’t understand all of the positive reviews. Ugh!

by H373738939

I think SpotifyStations is really cool and I was super excited to use it, but I had an issue with SpotifyStations that starting to really get on my nerves. Whenever my phone locks the song no longer plays. I would have to go back to SpotifyStations and start the song again, it would also start from the beginning. It did the same thing whenever I go on to another app. The song plays for a bit then stops after sometime. It’s really annoying.

by Applestinks219871

The stations seem to only play recent albums from bands that still make music. The first station I made had a band that has been around since 2007. It has only played about 4 songs each from the last two albums and nothing older or even the entire track listing from those two newer albums.

It has major problems with genres. I added a “Classic Metal” station and it keeps playing newer bands like Avenged Sevenfold. I made a station with several funny bands like Bloodhound Gang, Starbomb, etc. it constantly plays serious bands. Pandora was smart enough to know I only wanted funny stuff. It played a band on another station I didn’t like. I thumbed it down. The next song was by the same band.

by Dgdgshsgsr

First off SpotifyStations is great, but needs some work. For starters, on my favourites list there is (was) probably close to 35 songs which is great and all but after a while I began to realise it was playing the same 5 songs over and over again instead of some of the other 30 songs. I then was sadly forced to get rid of the songs that were stuck on repeat and then it went away for awhile but then the looping problem came back. Now, the songs that were looping were in my favourites in the first place so I liked the songs but then again I was forced to remove those songs. Secondly when you are listening to a station then go to your favourites the song title and album picture will be blank. Also I would love a feature to watch ads to get skips. And please add a way to un dislike things. I have accidentally thumbs downed a lot of things that I really liked. Other than that, it’s a great app.👍

by Annoyed Apple Fan

Very straight forward, clean and simple app. Nice when you don’t want to fiddle through playlists or your saved songs.

Although, when I lock my phone and unlock it shortly after to either change the song SpotifyStations is closed and I have to reopen SpotifyStations by selecting it on my home screen. It’s a minor thing but it is annoying after two or three times.

Another thing is the location of the downvote button. Why is it right in the center next to pause button. It should be (from left to right) downvote button, skip, pause, upvote. Doesn’t have to be that order but downvote button should be all the way to the left keep it out of the way. I accidentally downvoted a song I really liked 😡.

by ToyTrains

Been using this a good bit today. Seems to work like Pandora used to. Some limitations though. First it is definitely streaming at a lower bit rate. Even in my car it was obvious. Once I connected to my home theatre it was blatant, even on WiFi. Next the interface is too small when in the car. A larger playback screen with large icons would help here. It also goes to sleep. Hitting thumbs up for a track adds it to your library which is not necessarily what I want. Finally I don’t understand why this is a separate app. It could easily be part of the regular application. Also, these do not show up under “stations” in the main app.

by Jynxss

The only improvements would be maybe alphabetizing stations, while keeping the Favorites at the top, playing more songs by the artists a user has in their stations; maybe add the ability to click on stations to change them, instead of scrolling; also, maybe users could have a profile that displays their name/username and stations and the ability to either keep their profile public or make it private and have the ability to check out other people’s profiles and follow them

by Tommy Becks

I love the whole entire concept, especially just making a station and then just playing. Nothing else. Just pure music. The songs rotate lovely.

The problem that I have is the quality of the songs are just so poor. They must be coming through at 128 kb because it is terrible. Also, it is just really laggy and buggy which I am sure it will be fixed in the future. I look forward to a lot of improvements. Very promising app

by Csakid

I love almost everything about SpotifyStations but it crashes far too frequently. It also logs me out very frequently. It usually ‘pauses’ and requires me to change station or switch songs to begin playing again. Sometimes it looks like it’s playing a song but there is no audio. There should also be either a full screen view of the album art or at least enlarged text to show the artist/track.

by 7ittian

I use SpotifyStations daily on the way to work. SpotifyStations is easy to set up multiple stations that tailor towards the artist you want to listen to. One of the main issues is SpotifyStations will favor playing a select few songs/artist and never mix up your stations to add some variety to them or it will continue to play songs from artist you have continually disliked and leave some artist you have added to the station rarely played.

by Dylpickle5489

Honestly I love this idea and I always tried to use stations in SpotifyStations but it wasn’t the best. Now that there is a whole dedicated app to it it works much better and helps me find new music much easier. One thing tho is that there should be an a button to where if you like the song it automatically adds it to your music library that way you don’t have to switch between apps. Other than that is great!

by Moondogrison

Love this new stations app. So easy to use. Only a couple of changes I would like to see. I would like to be able to sort my stations. And I would like to toggle between stations without it auto changing. I would like to have to make it play or leave current one on. Along with that I would like to be able to add/remove artist without it switching to that station when I am done.

by Chainblade84

I’m a very passive music listener so my preferred method of listening is with stations. The main app is very busy. I just like to thumbs up and down songs and keep listening. I’m liking this new app.

A few things I’d change is the main view. While interesting and fast, I’d rather have the usual full screen album art and name of the artist and song. I’d also prefer to have crossfade. I do like that it doesn’t take out the top iOS bar with signal, battery life, etc. that drives me nuts on the main app.

by Hitmeonemoretime

So adding artists to previous stations is possible now, just tapping/holding the existing station. Wonderful. Although there isn’t a way to select/combine all stations, it is sufficient the way it is now.

I think a last missing feature is an off timer so people can listen to music for 20 or “x” minutes and then it automatically stops. Useful for listening before sleeping, pandora has this setting.

by Bgr5000

I’v been trying to eliminate as much distractions out of my life as possible. One of those being how cluttered every music app is. Now it’s not just music. It’s podcasts, books, video, etc. etc. then you make playlist after playlist and search for more and more. SpotifyStations is great for someone like me.

by FVJONES

This is the best music listening way that I’ve ever experienced in my life I so much enjoy picking out the songs I like and then listening to them over and over and then finding new ones all the time I am grateful to be able to do this. I wish I could put in a search for songs that I do know. Thank you for allowing us to have great music to listen to all the time soothing the soul and reminiscing of times past.

by Hushero

I love SpotifyStations a lot; in fact, it’s my go-to daily music app when I don’t feel like going through my messy playlists! It’s pretty convenient, fast, and simple to use! I know it’s been seven months since you have updated it, and whatever are your plans, please don’t kill SpotifyStations ! Or at least keep it to premium subscribers! You’re the best music platform, and you are way ahead of other wannabes competitors!

by Rhymingartist

I have a studio along with 30 other artists in a large art gallery in Tequesta FL. We don’t have a professional sound system so we use our cell phone connected through Bluetooth to a speaker near the front door.
The artist that is “on”, working in the gallery, chooses what ever music they would like to play, appropriate for a gallery, and I get to pick exactly the kind of music I like that I think others would as well because I use this site. The commercials are short so nobody minds at all and we have great music playing all day long.

by Scorpio 30

Works once in awhile. Even with a strong signal, all I usually see on the screen is “Loading Stations.” Then after about 30 seconds, a message pops up “Unable to load your stations. Try again later.” So far, trying again later has not worked. Stations app deleted....problem solved!

by Geeohhdee

okay i has low expectations bc i liked the other app so much but in all honesty i’ve been using Stations exclusively for a few weeks now and i LOVE it. i wish in some of my stations there was a wider variety of songs played (sometimes i just get the same few songs on rotation) but otherwise i really enjoy it. the layout is simple and very appealing to look at and there are just enough buttons to make SpotifyStations useful but not cluttered. i totally love this and i don’t wanna go anywhere else for music

by Dockaiz

1. The list of songs should be made available, with our being able to Blacklist songs so that they they do not play. Alternatively we can select our favourite songs which would only play.

2. If an artiste is associated with more than one language, one should be able to select which ones. For that, it would be best if the song is given an indication of the language.

3. When playing that music, one should be able to select more than one artiste and music should be shuffled from the selected.

4. The order of artistes is how you add them. One should be able to reorder them at any time.

This is such a great app that people would be willing to pay a small sum with the refinements suggested.

by Dannymq

Mostly works like pandora but the music selected for a station is not as good as pandora.
But the biggest problem for me is that it doesn’t work well with Apple CarPlay. SpotifyStations doesn’t appear on the CarPlay UI, the only way to open it is to either open SpotifyStations in the phone or click on now playing which requires you to go home first and then click now playing which is too many clicks for CarPlay

by Animalover024

I love SpotifyStations to listen to music with especially since its free. However I do feel like SpotifyStations is getting progressively worse, first they added a limit to skips which is sometimes nice but sometimes I want to listen to only a few certain songs, or I’ll be looking for a certain song to add to my favorites so I’ll want to skip through the rest, after then added the limit of skips then they added ads to it which is very annoying and makes me consider deleting stations to find a different app for my music, the ads aren’t often but still it’s very annoying. I swear the next time I hear he fricking vaping ad I’ll throw my phone out a window

by MKonovalova

I’ve been using Stations for a few days and been impressed so far! Easily accessible list of customized stations makes the musical experience much more various and enjoyable, however I would love to get the opportunity of editing the list and move stations in order to customize it. Also I would like to give a feedback by using a “thumbs up” button without a track adding to my main playlist!

by Mango Birkie

I primarily listen to jazz, and I like listening to artists I’m not familiar with, or who might not be in my personal music collection. SpotifyStations is great for that. One suggestion for improvement: while SpotifyStations is integrated with CarPlay now, it rarely can be started from CarPlay if you were using another audio app before you get in the car. You have to use your phone to get out started.

by Jy.photos

- Make it easier to add a song to an existing playlist: I barely use the "Likes" feature but always add to my main playlist
- More moods: morning, angry, roadtrip, sexytime, etc.
- reorganize order of stations
- album art is so small :(, holding on it does make it bigger but seems not ideal
- option to preload a few stations for a few hours of offline use

by Bangsmith

This is a good concept, as long as they expand the capabilities of SpotifyStations beyond those of the main app. More sound quality choices, album info, the ability to stop it from playing automatically on startup, and being able to have more than ten artists on a station will be developments I look forward to seeing!

by Kvharder

My experience with Stations has been great. As a long time Pandora user, Stations does a lot of things right. The UI is clean and efficient. It doesn’t have bloat and is quick and snappy. Creating custom stations is a pleasant process. Please develop CarPlay functionality so I can continue the experience in the car.

by 👨🏼‍💻ReviewKing

This is by far way way better than any of the other free music apps loaded with ads and with limitations. You can pick all your fav artists and then like the songs you like to form a favorites playlist. The best part is, its free and there no ads! Highly recommend