Premium Music Streaming Services - Pandora & Spotify

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Does anyone actually subscribe to these services? It seems insane to me to pay $100+/year for a music streaming and not have anything to show for it afterwards. I've heard these services are desparate for money since so many people use the free service. I actually considered the $5/mon service once because I enjoyed the service... but not a chance now at $10+/mon.

Probably because I'm not concerned with listening to a specific song. If I really want to listen a certain song, I'll just find it on Youtube. Or I'll buy the song for a $1 for my phone... then I have it when I want it.

Most of the time, when I'm listening to Pandora/Spotify, it's for background, like when we're having a party or I'm at the gym. The ads don't bother me, still better than actual radio. But I'm old, so I remember the days when we were at the mercy of radio stations spamming the same 20 songs or so. So streaming radio is still pretty cool for me.

Anyway, any thoughts on these premium services or just streaming music in general.
 
I used to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on building my music collection on iTunes until I subscribed to Spotify. Now for $5/month I have all of that and more, virtually anything I want to listen to, anytime, anywhere, since as a premium member you can download your music to listen offline.

Every time one of my favorite artists launches a new record, the app notifies me and I can stream it and/or download it immediately. To me, it's a great service and it has saved me a lot of money. Also, you can stream at a higher quality than on iTunes. This is also a big plus for me since I'm a little snobby about A/V. Having no ads and unlimited FW/shuffle features are nice to have too.
 
A friend of mine has a family plan for spotify, and since I'm one of his best friends he hooked me up with an account. I also pay for Youtube premium, I'm spoiled as fuck, but is so nice not to have commercials.
 
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I have spotify premium. No ads. I can listen to full albums instead of stations or whatever. I have the option for higher audio quality.

Worth it. I can listen to virtually anything whenever I want.
 
I have spotify premium. No ads. I can listen to full albums instead of stations or whatever. I have the option for higher audio quality.

Worth it. I can listen to virtually anything whenever I want.
I'm in the same boat. I haven't used Pandora in forever but a ton of major podcasts are on Spotify now too. So if you're into sports they have the Fantasy Footballers podcast, audio version of First Take and Undisputed among other shows like PTI and ATH too.
 
I got the amazon music deal. I think it was 1 dollar for 4 months I'll probably cancel when the 4 months is up in November
 
I have spotify premium. No ads. I can listen to full albums instead of stations or whatever. I have the option for higher audio quality.

Worth it. I can listen to virtually anything whenever I want.
That sounds like a great deal. How much data would it normally take to listen to 1 hour of music every day for a month? Wondering if i would need to upgrade my cell plan.
 
That sounds like a great deal. How much data would it normally take to listen to 1 hour of music every day for a month? Wondering if i would need to upgrade my cell plan.
Premium let's you DL the stuff to your device so you barely use data after that
 
That sounds like a great deal. How much data would it normally take to listen to 1 hour of music every day for a month? Wondering if i would need to upgrade my cell plan.

Uh I don't actually know. I have unlimited data.

This month so far, I've used 1.22 gigs. Spotify is constantly on when I'm driving. For the entire month of September, used only .77. For comparison, in the same month, Stitcher used twice as much data and I don't use it anywhere near is frequently.
 
I subscribe to itunes music. I think it's time to go back to spotify though because it's just a better app. I just don't want to import my playlists again ugh

I don't care about having gigs of music on my comp anymore. Has anyone tried Tidal? FLAC files have be interested.
 
Uh I don't actually know. I have unlimited data.

This month so far, I've used 1.22 gigs. Spotify is constantly on when I'm driving. For the entire month of September, used only .77. For comparison, in the same month, Stitcher used twice as much data and I don't use it anywhere near is frequently.
Thanks mate!
 
Yes obviously, as someone who is very much into music its insanely good value.
 
Spotify is a must if you drive regularly.
 
I subscribe to itunes music. I think it's time to go back to spotify though because it's just a better app. I just don't want to import my playlists again ugh

I don't care about having gigs of music on my comp anymore. Has anyone tried Tidal? FLAC files have be interested.

Tidal has a poor Spotify ripoff interface, but quality wise it does sound really good. Of course its double the price. Qobuz is good too, sound wise its the same as Tidal. It starter off as a primarily classical service, so feels a bit more mature/classier than Tidals Jay-Z shtick. Again, expensive though. Can always get a free trial.
 
I have premium stotify. 10 bucks a month and I use it way more than other shit I pay for like Netflix and even cable.
 
I got spotify premium on my phone plan. Love it,though over never down loaded anything yet.
 
I use Amazon prime music. Also pandora let's you buy premium for $1 for a day. Ots perfect for a pool or beach day
 
I don't use none of that, I have my android wih SD card and all the music I need
 
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