I've tried Spotify ($4.95/mo or whatever), Grooveshark (premium), and the god-awful service that is Pandora. I haven't been very happy with any of them. Is there one out there that doesn't suck and recommend something else besides Drake and Lil' Wayne?
I do like some of the features of the paid subscriptions with Spotify and Grooveshark, like unlimited skips and virtually unlimited songs to choose from. With spotify, it seems like they recommend too much mainstream stuff. Grooveshark's recommendations hit their mark about 0.5% of the time, which is to say almost never.
I like the radio option on Spotify where you can pick numerous styles and find something. A lot is mainstream but to find the good stuff I search pitchfork and then search it on spotify
Do searches on google for blogspots with mp3s. Don't list bands you like, but types of music you like. Then, take a chance on listening to something that comes up.
Try Last.fm Same concept as Pandora except it recognizes what you play on your itunes and will use that to recommend new music.
A friend recommended Spotify... and I thought it was free... is it? I don't need to BUY any music if I can just find it and play it from any browser on Grooveshark, but we can use different services while at different modes of receiving the data to your devices: At work, using a PC: grooveshark While walking, without wi-fi: my music on iPhone In the car: iPhone through FM transmitter At home: radio or whatever I feel like at the time etc., etc.... also, you can't see grooveshark on iPhone.
Spotify can be free. Spotify costs money if you want to listen on your mobile device. (Same thing with Last.fm.) With free Spotify, you are limited in the amount minutes you can listen in a week, the number of times you can listen to a song or an entire album.
I turn on the radio and then BOOM, music. I am so not music downloading ninja itunes whatever trendy.
I use it every morning, but it does tend to repeat a lot of tracks. Even on my most obscure playlists. I wish there was a service/app where you could just put in a band/artist and just have it play songs by that band/artist all day long.
I just started to download again and didn't realize that services like Limewire,Frostwire are the dinosaur days of d/l.. I don't need whole albums but just 1 off singles... I'm getting into the whole smooth/contemporary jazz genre.. So what I've been doing is going to IsoHunt > Type Artist,Name of Song, or Album and when I d/l the torrent I don't d/l all but just that single song inside that torrent I was looking for. Takes a little bit more time but I haven't found an alternative that works.
I'm interested in streaming some of my personal music. I have over 35k mp3s (I know FLAC ftw) that I'd like to integrate with Alexa. Given the hardware I have, there's no easy/free way to stream my stuff to Alexa. I typically stream Pandora and let the Music Genome Project take me down a rabbit hole. I pay for Pandora Plus which removes ads. However, at Plus I can't just listen to a catalog of a specific artist's music strike me. I think with Pandora Premium I can get access to 40m songs and play whatever I want. It's $10/mo With Amazon Music Unlimited, I can get access to 70m songs and also play whatever. It's also $10/mo This would solve my streaming my own music issue; both services are bound to have almost all if not all of the music I have. There's also apple music w/ apple match, so I can 'upload' my songs to the cloud and stream them. Anyone have any experience with these services and want to comment?
