Spotify, streaming music and backup storage questions

In regards to your first question, I would suggest you just download Spotify on your PC. You can then see exactly what their selection is and decide from there. In my experiences they have a great selection with a lot of music you probably are looking for. To me it's worth the money to be able to stream whatever, whenever.

 

Have you looked into Pandora? You can create your own 'stations' and stream music at no charge. With that basic plan, you may have an occasional commercial and you have a limited number of "skips", but it works fine for me.

 

Who are "both"?

I believe the paid $4/month gives you "higher quality" music and no commercials, and unlimited skips. I use the free version but the ads aren't annoying.

 

Grooveshark, then. No commercials between songs. You can listen to entire albums.

 

My issue with grooveshark is that you will create a playlist, but then someone will delete their song (or some copyright issue I guess) and the song just disappears from your playlist...and it doesn't tell you. So over time, any particular playlist just shrinks! I had the paid account last year but didn't renew it because of this incredibly annoying aspect of it. Not sure if it has changed as I haven't logged onto it in months...

 

Spotify is amazing. I have saved so much money this year thanks to that. I love waking up on a Tuesday morning and adding the new releases to my 2012 playlist to listen to at work.

 

^ How do you "save" money? Do you have the regular Spotify or do you have the paid version? I'll hang up and listen.

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Dream Sequence, I don't think songs in there belong to any one particular user... do they? I've never had the issue you bring up. I use the regular account (Grooveshark).

 

Swoly,
The songs on Grooveshark are uploaded by users - which is why the same song shows up 10x - at least this is how I thought it worked. I've seen songs disappear all together, especially if it was an artist not supported by grooveshark (I think coldplay and beatles were a couple that kept getting pulled).

 

By not spending money on cds or downloads.

 

Another +1 for spotify. 10 bucks gets you mobile streaming but also I share it with my gf using the offline mode. She gets on at home and picks all the songs she wants and then syncs it offline to her phone so she has it locally w/o interrupting my service. That alone for me is worth the 10 bucks. Teaching her how to do that was so much easier than me downloading songs and having to sync it to her phone via itunes.

 

I use Spotify too. It has the option for Offline listening but I don't use it mainly because my iPhone is already filled to the brim with games. The streaming is great and has most of the songs I like to listen to. The app is not the greatest but it does the job.

 

That is exactly what I do with my gf haha. You can have offline playlists for up to 3 mobile devices I think. Works out really well...

 

spotify is great, i prefer MOG. either are great choices. if you don't care about lossless files and don't have great gear, this is basically all you need.

 

backup solutions are many. need more specifics to help in the least bit.

 

I had the paid version of Grooveshark, but now use the paid version of Spotify.

Keep in mind that Grooveshark is driven by user uploads, so you may be able to find obscure artists that aren't on Spotify. But because Spotify doesn't allow user uploads, you won't have to sift through the low quality files or incomplete albums you might get on Grooveshark.