After learning that MOG wasn't supported on SB, I resigned myself to accepting 128K streams. The fidelity isn't great, but at least I could build a personal catalog of music. I listened to Pandora, Slacker, and Last.FM over several months. I settled on Last.FM because they have a large catalog and I like their user interface. But, yesterday Last.FM announced they will begin charging $3 per month for SB and will not increasing the bitrate. I thought, if I have to pay, I might as well get a better bitrate.
Goals 1) Internet radio & music discovery service that allows songs to be liked or disliked. Creates personal station that gets better as more songs are voted on. 2) Get highest bitrate. 3) Get a large catalog of songs. 4) Allows multiple custom stations per user account (e.g. Jazz station, Lite Rock station, etc.) 5) Would be nice to store a few hundred songs on MP3 player. 6) Not concerned about Smart Phone support. This table from CNet is helpful, but I can't determine how current the information is. http://www.cnet.com/1990-7899_1-6396943-1.html Please see attched jpeg for a comparison table from Details Magazine. At this link, a Rhapsody employee says it streams at only 128K. http://forum.rhapsody.com/rhapsody/topics/streaming_bitrate_question_client_and_com?from_gsfn=true Please see my table attached below the one from Details magazine. It shows only the option for the highest quality stream on a SB. Last.FM is currently free, but will begin charging $3/Month for SB. Spotify is not available in the US. I'm really attracted to MOG's 320K stream, large cataglog, and they have a great user interface. It looks like I'll have to use my laptop as a controller and the SB WAV plugin to stream to the SB player. I got the WAV plugin working last night. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Table.JPG | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11335| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- jeffwdc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffwdc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38983 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85518 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
