IOS, Android, BlackBerry, Roku, Sonos, Amazon Echo, Google Home $4 per month for Plus, $10 per month for PremiumĦ per hour per station, 24 per day for all stations With radio, the lack of control is the trade-off for a discovery-focused, and often free, listening experience. Many services have a limit on how many tracks you can skip per hour or per day. Normally, the only controls are play, pause and skip forward to the next song. Once you start playing a station, you cannot rewind, repeat, scrub forward or select songs to play on-demand. The service uses that feedback to fine-tune the selection, aiming to give you exactly what you want to hear, including familiar favorites and new music. You can then tweak the selection by upvoting or downvoting songs: An upvote tells the service you like what you hear, while a downvote does the opposite. All of the apps on this list, save for TuneIn Radio, let you create radio stations based on a song, album, artist or genre. What they all shareįirst, let's talk about the features all of these services share, since there is significant overlap. I won't cover the on-demand streaming services that offer radio-like features, but you can read all about them in CNET's guide to streaming music.īefore we get started, here's a brief disclaimer: CBS, the parent company of CNET, also owns Last.fm, and many over-the-air AM/FM radio stations, all of which compete or provide content in this space. In this guide, I'll outline the big names in internet radio, running through their features and what makes them unique. Now there are tons of choices and nearly every on-demand streaming service has some kind of radio feature.

I remember when Pandora was the only streaming radio service in town.

Pandora radio website