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by komali2 2996 days ago
Pandora radio started in 2000 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Radio

Myspace was a popular way to share music, if limited.

Youtube, again though this doesn't fully fit the definition.

Anybody know about soundcloud? I know I was using that before I heard of spotify but I'm not sure if it came out beforehand.
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unethical_ban 2996 days ago
Pandora wasn't on demand until very recently. It was "station only".

Myspace def. was limited and didn't have full catalogs of all music in any scope approaching Spotify.

Youtube is video that has music, and can't be conveniently used on mobile or used for music discovery explicitly.

Soundcloud is actually the closest to what I meant, but it obviously isn't used for record-label music distribution en masse.

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dragonwriter 2996 days ago
> Youtube is video that has music,

True.

> and can't be conveniently used on mobile

I disagree, but that's highly subjective.

> or used for music discovery explicitly.

It can be, but the YT Music app only was launched in 2015.

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lazerpants 2996 days ago
Spotify was light years ahead of Pandora when it launched in Europe. I used to VPN through Europe just to use Spotify before it launched in the US. It was a popular work-around for the tech literate in the US circa 2006. People went nuts for the service, though the cachet of it being difficult to access may have helped.
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