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pandora offer a free service
Pandora took over Rdio so you might wish to look at this and see if they
have what you want.
I have two goals in mind with the subscription services I have.
Radiotunes for the sheer variety of radio channels they have, that's
more a background thing for me depending on what I want to hear, just
select a channel - say Classic Christmas - and that's what I'll hear, no
extra intervention required on my part.
On the other hand I've made my own playlists and - for want of a better
description - done my own programming with Spotify.
Its a wonderful backup to have, say you've heard a song on a radio
station you've never heard before, you can look it up on Spotify and add
it to your collection straight away, if the song grows on you then you
might decide to buy it from iTunes or your local CD store if available.
I've programmed my Pandora with various radio channels that reflect the
types of music I'm likely to want to hear, the problem with Pandora for
me is that - whilst the concept is very good - the quality of the audio
isn't anything special and I doubt whether Pandora are even at all
interested in changing this.
On 13/12/2016 7:56 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
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I don't use any of these services, because although I do listen to
music from time to time, I don't listen to it enough to make it worth
10 bucks a month. If someone had a service that was a couple bucks a
month, I might use thatjust because I don't generally use online feeds
all that often, (maybe 3 or 4 times a month), roughly once a week, and
that's just not worth 10 bucks a month to me, especially considering
there's all kinds of free stuff out there that I can pull down anytime
I like. Admittedly, I don't get to choose what gets played in that
case, but most of the time, when I use these services, I'm not really
looking for specific stuff, just background noise. When I want
specific stuff, I'll listen to my own collection. Nobody is offering
a service for 2 or 3 bucks a month, and so I don't use any of them.
However, I do have to say I liked rdio, and did subscribe to that
service for a month, but it just so happened I subscribed just before
they went belly up, so a month is all I could have gotten out of them
anyhow. Kind of sad that, as I really liked their service. When I
said I wanted to hear an artist, I got that artist, and not 50 million
other artists that have no relation whatsoever to the artist I wanted
to hear. I don't know another service that does that. I hear some of
the pay services offer artist only feeds, but they still throw in
other artists from time to time, and that's just not what I'm after.
When I choose to listen to a particular artist, I want just that
artist, and nothing else. If I want random music, then these services
are fine, but I can't see paying for a service that doesn't offer what
I want.
On 12/12/2016 12:47 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
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I guess the point here is that Pandora are concentrating on quantity
over quality.
I too gladly subscribe to Radiotunes, not just for the quality of
streams but the excellent variety of material available.
The disdavantage of Radiotunes here is that I cannot specifically
tell Radiotunes what I want to hear, I have a few hundred music
channels to select from and that's that, more than enough music.
I am also a subscriber to Spotify and they opffer me - not only high
quality audio streams - but the ability to hear my audio offline.
On 12/12/2016 4:03 PM, Iaen Cordell wrote:
Interesting, the article shown did not talk about any increase in
the quality of the streams.
I am a paid subscriber to radiotunes and they have a 320K stream.
Cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 11:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Article: Pandora Premium to take on Spotify,
Apple, early next year
The more options out there for music subscription and streaming then
the better I'll be pleased, I like Pandora and Spotify though I've
never gotten into Apple Music, with Pandora and Spotify around I see
little point? <smile>.
http://www.radiotoday.com.au/news/whats-new/10170-pandora-premium-to-take-on-spotify.html
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