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I play both, and upright bass too. If you just want to learn a different instrument, then fretless is mo' different. if you actually want to play bass in a live context, then get a fretted bass.
Fretless is very very cool, and way more expressive than fretted, but it's much much harder to play. Partly this is the obvious intonation issue--it's easy to slip out of tune. But the tone is also harder to control--it tends to be "bigger" and looser. A fretted bass note is plucked and then pretty much stays in character as it decays--pretty much the same overtones and timbre. A fretless note will do all sorts of cool/odd stuff before it decays, abnd in some cntexts it just sounds too busy and dstracting. if you're walkng a blues line you want a really fosued, consistent sound, and if your fretless is "mwahhing" all over the place no one will be happy
So it depends on your goals. if you wnat to play with people, get a fretted unless you're ready for a steeper learning curve
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