{"id":844,"date":"2016-10-13T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/pandoras-new-imessage-app-lets-you-text-your-favorite-music.html"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:33:52","slug":"pandoras-new-imessage-app-lets-you-text-your-favorite-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/pandoras-new-imessage-app-lets-you-text-your-favorite-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Pandora\u2019s new iMessage app lets you text your favorite music"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tucked away inside Pandora\u2019s rebranded app, launched yesterday<\/a>, the company was hiding its first iMessage app<\/a>, too. In fact, it\u2019s the\u00a0first third-party party streaming music service to launch its own iMessage extension, the company says.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s the only music-focused iMessage app, of course.<\/p>\n

Apple Music already lets you share your favorite songs within iMessage, and Shazam recently launched a similar tool<\/a> to both detect and send songs directly in iMessage.<\/p>\n

However, Pandora\u2019s app <\/a>works a little differently.<\/p>\n

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Shazam and Apple Music\u2019s iMessage extensions both point users to Apple Music and iTunes after a\u00a0track preview is shared with the friend.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pandora\u2019s app also lets\u00a0you send a 30-second sample\u00a0within a chat thread, but if the\u00a0recipient likes the track, they can tap it to start a Pandora artist station based on that shared track instead.<\/p>\n

The experience works better if both parties have the Pandora app installed, though the recipient doesn\u2019t need to be logged in to hear the track (just start the station.) \u00a0And if the person you\u2019re sharing with doesn\u2019t have Pandora installed, they\u2019ll be prompted to download it, the company notes.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, kicking of artist radio stations\u00a0via a shared music clip isn\u2019t as useful as being able to go directly to that artist and listen to their entire song, album, or catalog, as with an on-demand service. However, given that Pandora\u2019s install base tops 78 million users, it\u2019s more likely that your friends\u00a0have Pandora on their phone rather than\u00a0any other third-party music service, including Spotify, which has 40 million subscribers as of September, or even Apple Music, which announced at its iPhone 7 event that it had grown to 17 million subscribers.<\/p>\n

In order to share songs, you simply launch the iMessage app while playing a Pandora station on your phone.<\/p>\n

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    The current track will immediately pop up under \u201cNow Playing\u201d in the iMessage extension. Pandora\u2019s curators will also handpick tracks that are good for sharing, including the current top hits and\u00a0those that are trending.<\/p>\n

    As a bonus, the\u00a0app includes a dozen stickers you can use to annotate your message. These are fairly basic \u2013 a thumbs up and thumbs down, a heart, lips, sad and happy emojis, and a few that say things like \u201cFire\u201d or \u201cJam Alert,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

    There are also a couple of versions of the new Pandora logo included in the sticker pack. Why? Uh\u2026because branding?<\/p>\n

    The iMessage extension\u00a0arrived in yesterday\u2019s app update<\/a>, but like all iMessage apps, it only works if you\u2019re running iOS 10.<\/p>\n

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