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Mentions personal use of Pandora.

1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

“And then in Spotify, it just seems just effortless. But it helped me discover all kinds of artists I never would have discovered otherwise. And Pandora, I used a lot. Pandora is more prioritizing on the discovery part versus organization part. And that was really wonderful.”

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Lex Fridman
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1 Mar 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…CDs, yep. And then, and then you upload them into your computer. And you save them. And then how do you put it? Allegedly, a friend of yours pirates some extra songs. And puts them on the computer. So, you have… but you have your stash on the computer. You’re like, “This is my finely selected stash of greatness.” Uh, sometimes organized by album, sometimes not. And the big moment for me that was really difficult to do, really difficult to do, is throw away that stash and switch to Spotify. Switch to streaming, and basically, rebuild the stash of playlists and all this kind of stuff. And that, it was heartbreaking ’cause so much love and effort went into that. Both the CD, the stashing of the CD, and the stashing of the MP3s in the computer. And then in Spotify, it just seems just effortless. But it helped me discover all kinds of artists I never would have discovered otherwise. And Pandora, I used a lot. Pandora is more prioritizing on the discovery part versus organization part. And that was really wonderful. So, one of the things I… I’ll start with a positive that I like about Spotify, is that they show view count, they show play counts. Whether they’re real or not, that’s another question. But they show how many plays songs have, and that’s how the charts are based.…

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