Spotify Radio feature becomes an app, offers Pandora-like stations with unlimited skips

While Spotify has had little trouble cranking up its subscriber base to this point, one feature that has notably been lacking is its radio / auto playlist feature. Today (tied in with an appearance by CEO Daniel Ek at LeWeb 2011) that’s been upgraded, because the freshest preview builds move the Radio section down most of the new Spotify Apps , where it now allows you to drop in any song out of your library for it to automatically create a radio station of comparable music around. Subscribers not keen on upgrading yet can find similar functionality tied to Spotify’s library with the EchoFi tool, but this venture represents the service’s debut of an “all-new intelligent recommendation engine” meant to dig the tracks you would like out of its millions-deep library. Advertising “unlimited skips” is a transparent jab at Pandora, but it isn’t immediately clear if you’ll still desire a premium paid-up account for truly unlimited listening (well, maybe not ). Hit the source link to seize a Radio-enabled preview build and notice if some algorithm can defeat even the mightiest Yacht Rock playlist crafted by our own Brian Heater.

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