The thing with Pandora was that you enter a song title or artist and Pandora takes it from there and tries to match that type of music. Not too far down the list and the type of music was varying from what I wanted. Unless I was using Pandora wrong??? Anyway, what I find with iTunes radio is that each station has a description of what they play and I haven't seen any variation from that type of music. But, in the end, I guess it becomes a matter of taste and truthfully, I wasn't as impressed with Pandora. Just my $.02