[eclein]

What music service do you use if any?? Googles service sounds thin to me so I'm curious what you guys are using, I'd prefer
premium sound quality over size of catalog any suggestions????

[murphy11]

I use Pandora One - $3.99 a month or $36/yr. Bit rate is 192kbps and sounds much better in my system than free version for a very modest price. I'm in my first month, am happy and probably will prepay for a year next month.  Although there are no ads, the connection times out approx every hour? on purpose so they don't have to pay for music playing to an empty room. It was a little annoying at first, but it's a simple mouse click to keep listening.

I kind of like that feature now in case I forget to pause at night before I go to bed.

[stlrman]

Spotify is awesomeness!! the wife and I share a premium account. Ten bucks a month. Great sound and selection. I have not bought a cd in years.

[WC]

I have been using MOG, but I have decided not to continue paying for a streaming service. I had mostly used it to listen to new albums coming out. Most of the new release albums can be covered by free album streams if you know where to look.

[geowak]

Spotify is awesomeness!! the wife and I share a premium account. Ten bucks a month. Great sound and selection. I have not bought a cd in years.

I agree totally. I was a MOG user and asked Beats to re-consider the choice they made to drop the service. I knew that the decision was made, but I am one of the many Beats knew would switch. I switched to Spotify and like it as much as MOG. They have a very large selection of music and they are keeping the home computer interface. Beats is looking for mobile users. I would give the trial period a shot. They have 320KPS as well.

[eclein]

I'll check out Spotify, quality like I mentioned is most important.....MOG was great except for the UI, and Beats is looking for a different audience like geowak stated. I used to have MOG and Google, now just Google, and at the $7.99/mo price for committing early. I'm going to let it ride now and see how much I really miss a second service. I do the new release listening thing through a tablet usually and if I really like it I buy and rip the disk for better quality...Thanks guys keep the ideas coming...

[stlrman]

With primium your getting 320 bpbs which is cd quality as I understand it.
I listen on my iPhone , iPad . In my car I have a tape player wired to my my iPhone so I can listen in my car.
Perfect for our five hour road trips!
Now i share With my wife, and we can only listen to one device at a time. So if she is streaming , I jump on and knock her off. So we text each other and let the other one know when we are finished etc...
You can try Spotify for 30 days for free. I think with commercials . Usually a 15 second Spotify add.
With primium it is commercial free. Actually I think it's free always with commercials.
I have saved thousands of dollars not buying CDs . I have found so many new bands in the past few years.
Spotify has a suggested listening bands at the top of the page. Say your listening to Bon Iver ,they recommend ten other bands you may enjoy.  I actually don't use this feature that much, as I get great bands from my wife, and the website Pitchfork.
My wife makes playlists , but I almost always listen to entire albums.
I'm not sure if you can stream at the highest bit rate while not a primium member.
I'm a huge fan !!

[robcentola]

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/offers/music-streaming-subscription and for a premium it streams 16/44.1.

[parr3n1]

qobuz, great alternative. thanks

[bladesmith]

That Qobuz looks interesting, is it available in the US .?

[parr3n1]

Yes, available in us.

[robcentola]

Great little french co. You can download any of their stuff as many times as you like. Can't beat it. Also, they have  more obscure releases I couldn't find anywhere else. Qobuz is great.

[bladesmith]

Qobuz has almost no 60's or 70's music. They do have stuff I have never heard before. I'll give them a trail, but probably not going to last.

I like itunes, but the streaming quality is not as good as mog.

[bladesmith]

I am looking at spotify,  it says, "high quality streaming". Does anyone know what that means.?

[murphy11]

320Kbps from the Spotify desktop app.  I have been trying Pandora One for a month free and their streaming is described as 192kbps - I really like the $3.99 price and sound quality.

I'm trying a free month of Spotify premium and will probably drop Pandora and pay the higher $10 price for Spotify when the trail period is over. I currently only listen like I would a radio and Pandora in hindsight sounds much like top 40 radio in that I hear the same songs in the rotation. Spotify quality sounds top notch and the variety in Spotify seems to be much better. If I pick a Pink station in Pandora I get a variety for a short time and then it seems like it repeats the same top 40 songs from similar artists. I'm getting very bored on Pandora. If I pick a song on Spotify and  click start radio it pulls songs I haven't heard from artists I've heard and artists that I've never heard.  YMMV

[bladesmith]

Murphy11,

Just started spotify last week (too).They have some very nice options. Down load at higher quality and listen off line. Nice when traveling. No stalls or pausing/play errors so far. Good quality sound.

Thx