
That's a far better approach than simply stopping the music without warning as most other services do when your connection drops.Īccording to TechCrunch, Pandora Plus only has a catalog of around two million tracks - not all that much when you consider on-demand competitors regularly offer up 30+ million songs. When the service detects that your connection has dropped, it'll play an audio alert before seamlessly switching you over to one of your four top stations based on what you've been listening to lately.

Pandora Plus also has a new offline listening mode that is quite clever.

It also eliminates ads and dishes up higher-quality streams just as One did. The new premium tier, which will replace Pandora One (its existing $4.99 ad-free option), allows users to skip as many songs as they'd like and also replay tracks they've already heard.

While it's not quite the Spotify killer most were expecting (that it coming at a later date), the new option - priced at $4.99 per month - does afford a wider range of features including the ability to listen offline. Pandora on Thursday launched a new premium streaming music tier it's calling Pandora Plus.
