Rolling Stones Radio - One song out of 10 is a Rolling Stones song, all other songs chosen are the opposite of the Rolling Stones! has anyone else experienced this? With Pandora If I choose an artist I want to listen to Most are by that artist and the o

Streaming services that are not licensed to play songs on demand use different algorithms to feed up songs that they guess you might like. Some surely do it better than others. If you like the way Pandora does it, listen to Pandora.

Bud Warren wrote:

So, if you were in a restaurant and from the menu you ordered the new house specialty, Salmon, and they brought you Chicken you would be OK with that.

No I would not. In fact, I would stop going there and start going to a restaurant that served the food the way I like it, which is exactly what I recommended to you in my previous response.

If you don't understand the question you should not respond.

To play the songs as you like exact from the same artist you must purchase the albums. Pandora bases the choices as Ed has said on algorithms to play songs similar in that genre just as Genius in iTunes picks out similar songs in the same genres in a similar process.

iTunes radio or Pandora is not a record player!

Thanks!

Again, If you don't understand the question you should not respond.

Again if you don't understand the logic behind the technicalities you shouldn't ask!

Go out and buy a record player if you can understand what that would entail!

Thanks!

WOW! Get a Life.

I have one. Have you understood if you have woken up yet? Oh no, you wouldn't because you were out to begin with.

Don't you understand what it entails go out and purchase a record player?

The "problem" Bud74/Bud Warren is that you are hearing correct answers but you don't want to listen to them. It was never stated that by selecting a radio station by a single artist that all or even most of the songs would be by that artist. iTunes algorithms will select "similar" songs to the type that artist makes.

As was pointed out if you prefer the way that Pandora does their stations, then listen to Pandora.

And BTW - your "example" of the restaurant is completely from left field IMHO.

The only problem is no one has answered the only question in my original post. Gotta be brainles to not know what a question mark implies. - The only question I asked was - has anyone else experienced this? Noone wants to read mindless rants from people not smart to read.

Have I "experienced" only 1 in 10 songs by the selected artist - sure. But since you don't explain properly what "opposite of the Rolling Stones", how are we supposed to know if we "experienced" the same thing?

No I have not had the same issue as you - there it has been answered in a way that you hopefully can understand.

If you have nothing nice to say then please go elsewhere for your rant.

Radio is about variety regardless of what the title of the station implies. If you only want to hear one artist then go buy their music and play only their music.

MJ

In order to get results closer to what you want add more artists of the same flavor that you are looking for. If I wanted a classic rock 60's and 70's station I would add The Rolling Stones, Guns and Roses, Led Zepplin, The Who, and maybe later add The Animals, The Beatles, or The Allman Brothers Band depending on how I wanted to shape my station. More artists in your station = more fine tuned station to your tastes. It is illegal for companies offering this kind of service to play back to back music from the same artists as defined by the RIAA, but in short loading your station with artists that have the style you like will help you get more of the Stones than other artists, especially if you choose "Play more like this" on every Stones song, and the options to Variety or Discovery to get some of their great songs that weren't played on the radio or didn't make it into the Billboard Top 100. More is what you want.