And speaking of Bezo's Bozos developer team, I'm very frustrated with playing Pandora radio stations on my Echo. On the Echo, my Jack Radio station, which contains nearly 100 artists, gets stuck on playing just a few artists. It will play the same artist as often as 4 songs out of 10, and it rarely plays more than 5 or 6 different artists in a 2 hour period. That sucks! When I play my Jack Radio station on my Pandora app on my iPad Pro or iPhone 6+ it does a really good job of playing a variety of artists and very seldom repeats an artist within 10 or more songs. It also does a good job of transitioning between the various genres I added (via artists). It will play similar songs clusterd together for a while then transition into another genre. The Echo though, well not so much. And to be honest, even though my Echo has pretty good sound, I think my iPad Pro 9.7 with its four speakers sounds better, at least on the soft rock and pop music I listen too. And the Pandora app does a much better job displaying what is currently playing as well as the history. The Alexa app just plain sucks, and it reboots a lot. "Bad Bezos, bad, bad Bezos!" he says while rolling up a newspaper.
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