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Weekend Open Forum: Your favorite music service?
Apple's iTunes is widely regarded as the service that spawned the legal music download industry. At a time when music piracy ran rampant on p2p networks, the platform served as the prime example that customers are willing to pay for content as long as they get a good buying experience at reasonable prices. Today there's no shortage of music services, with most recent launches falling in two camps: digital lockers or streaming services.
The first group includes the likes of Amazon, Google, and in a few weeks Apple, which basically let you upload your music collection to a server and access it from wherever you have an Internet connection for a yearly fee. The second includes companies like Spotify, Rdio, and MOG, which do away with the whole notion of owning songs altogether and just offer you access to anything in their catalog for free (with restrictions) or a small monthly fee.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages depending on what you're willing to pay, how you want to access music, and how big your music collection is. Today we want to know: where are you getting your music from these days? Have you subscribed to one of these services or at least tried out their free plans? If so, tell us which one and what has been your experience so far.
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Hankhendrix
on September 24, 2011 3:03 AM |
Grooveshark is my last resort, after the demise of Dizzler. |
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Burty117
on September 24, 2011 3:43 AM |
Well i'm always using iTunes if I find a song I like, but for finding music I use grooveshark, I used to use spotify when it first came out but all the ads and restrictions have become too annoying so grooveshark Is the way to go! |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 3:53 AM |
None of them. You find more music on Youtube. And it's free. |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 4:08 AM |
youtube ftw |
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Burty117
on September 24, 2011 5:31 AM |
But YouTube is generally rubbish quality and takes up more bandwidth? |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 5:54 AM |
Burty117@ Well, the quality varies yes, but you can change the quatity on most of them, but then again, the downside is it does takes more bandwith. but what can you expect? its free. |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 6:03 AM |
I use this superb service called 'The Pirate Bay' to try out new music, then buy the good stuff as mp3s. I hadn't bought new music in 10 years before this site because of the cost/dross ratio. The music industry must love all the free marketing, I wonder why I haven't seen any TV adverts for it yet? |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 6:08 AM |
Guest above@ Uhm, the News? articles here on Techspot? and btw, please don't mention pirating here, ok? |
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Lokalaskurar
on September 24, 2011 6:16 AM |
YouTube generally has all the interesting music, in my opinion. I tried Spotify, but it offered none of my favourite music |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 6:28 AM |
Lokalaskurar@ +1 |
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ihaveaname
on September 24, 2011 7:00 AM |
"Music is wasteful and stupid." -Patricia Tannis, Borderlands. |
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mrtraver
on September 24, 2011 8:30 AM |
CDs. |
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gwailo247
on September 24, 2011 8:33 AM |
I use Pandora for random music, as far as specific stuff, I amassed quite a hoard back in the day, and can usually find what I need there. |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 8:47 AM |
The radio is my favorite music service :p |
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dedparrot
on September 24, 2011 9:46 AM |
youtube! |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 9:50 AM |
Spotify rocks |
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Kibaruk
on September 24, 2011 10:09 AM |
That wooden box with a couple of dials in it, rocks big time though. |
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---agissi---
on September 24, 2011 11:52 AM |
Pandora does it wonderfully for me, Im happy with what comes on my channels |
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TomSEA
on September 24, 2011 12:33 PM |
Spotify for now... |
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yowanvista
on September 24, 2011 2:37 PM |
Spotify |
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GunsAblazin
on September 24, 2011 6:39 PM |
Pandora is my favorite. I hate finding songs to listen to, or making playlists. Pandora does the work for me and it knows the songs I like even if I never heard it before. |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 8:12 PM |
As wasteful as your quote? |
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Guest
on September 24, 2011 8:21 PM |
tunein.com internet radio. Always new always fresh with the latest in any genre. |
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Tekkaraiden
on September 25, 2011 6:23 AM |
I still buy cd's. |
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klepto12
on September 25, 2011 9:41 AM |
youtube has everything and its free but i do use Pandora on my phone and have tried grooveshark |
- guess I'm just unlucky.
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