Which streaming music service do you use?

Miura knives
Shop Knives and stones on ebay
Kitchen Knife Forums

Help Support Kitchen Knife Forums:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
dafox

dafox

Senior Member
Joined
May 27, 2017
Messages
2,251
Reaction score
1,222
Location
Northern Colorado
I've tried a few including Spotify and Tidal, I'm sticking with Pandora. Tidal does sound better but probably not worth paying twice as much plus Pandora does such a good job of anticipating what I want to hear. I can put Pandora on a station like Cool Jazz and just enjoy, Tidal's music choices for me were too random, same with Spotify.
 
I use Spotify but I use streaming so little that I wouldn't count that as a data point. While much of my listening is relatively conventional/mainstream I also listen to a significant amount of "outside" improvised music and "new music" classical/composed. To my knowledge no commercial streaming service does a great job in either area.
Frankly I miss the old industry model where musicians toured to support physical media sales. Now artists put out physical media to support touring. The internet has made it easier for new/unknown artists to gain exposure but streaming pays very poorly unless you're huge or have very modest financial aspirations. There are, of course, a few outliers but they are very rare.
 
We have Spotify. But my wife is in college so we got the discount with Hulu and Showtime. I liked Pandora. But I like being able to make personalized playlists.
 
I had Amazon for about a year, but switched to Spotify nearly a year ago. I like it better. I find the ability to get a playlist or 'radio' for any album or artist a great way to discover new music. I have 100+ albums in offline modus what is very practical (ok, Amazon had that too). The App works OK on OSX (some glitches with weak signal on phone - when going to area without internet one sometimes must switch the phone to fly modus, than start the app, otherwise the app will complain about the lack of internet connection and not start play the locally stored music).
 
I use Spotify as well. Since I'm in college as well I also get it from pretty cheap, and the library is huge, which is the most important part for me. It has everything I would listen to, and I listen to everything from jazz to alternative. Hell it has Lebanese plays recorded back in the 70s that are actually kinda hard to find anywhere else.
 
Google Play Music. Includes YouTube premium & YouTube Music. Pretty much any song I could dream of. Plus I can download full albums of any artist available, and I can't think of a single time I couldn't find what I was looking for.
 
I like Pandora which I stream when I cycle. The playlists are generally very well matched and the few outliers are easily skipped.
 
Spotify. Totally happy, my seven kids gave me the guidance.
 
I use Spotify and Apple Music, streaming from my iPhone to my Sonos speakers all around the house.
 
Stingray music. Stingray provides those music channels you get in cable tv packages. They have an app that’s surprisingly good and free to use if you authenticate through your tv. There’s way more stuff on the app than their tv channels. It’s just music with no talking or ads
 
Got Apple and Spotify ... worked in a pipe mill when I went to college so can’t comment on range or quality. I joined YouTube premium to get rid of the ads and was surprised by YouTube music. Curation is best for what I listen to. Enjoy the videos too. Mostly Apple on my iPhone.
 
Apple Music for my portable setup and Tidal on my desktop to satisfy my audiophile grade requirements.
 
TIDAL Offers 40% Military Discount

Just an FYI for TIDAL users, they offer a steep military discount of 40% off if you are active duty or a veteran/retired. You can do it online in the subscription area of account settings. Took me about 5 minutes to get the discount. The only thing you need is basic information and submit an image of your discharge certificate (DD214 or equivalent).
 
Amazon recently released their HD service which uses the original studio masters of music which they can get access to. Up to crazy 24bit/192hkz resolution in some cases, though I have not heard one at that rate, lots of 24bit/44.1khz songs though.

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=14063680011
 
bseven said:
Amazon recently released their HD service which uses the original studio masters of music which they can get access to. Up to crazy 24bit/192hkz resolution in some cases, though I have not heard one at that rate, lots of 24bit/44.1khz songs though.
Click to expand...
I'm confused. Tidal and Quobuz steam a pile of stuff in hi--rez formats. Amazon Prime is playing catch-up.
 
Timely thread.. been a long time user of Spotify premium, mostly because they offer great suggested music through playlists. Not long ago I used one song to start a radio and ended up getting to know dozens of great old music I had not heard before! Supposedly they will offer cd quality soon so waiting for that.

As an amazon prime member in another country than my home country I am encountering difficulties in getting amazon music, I don’t think it will be possible for me.. they are offering a three month free trial now.
 
I've been listening to Amazon prime music for a long time and for the last few years I've had the music unlimited. Very happy customer. I listened to Pandora One back in the day and did Spotify premium for awhile. Ultimately, it comes down to convenience. I'm listening to Amazon prime on my echo right now. Works great for me. I just tell Alexa to play a band or a genre or a "similar to this band or song" and she does really well most of the time. I have very broad tastes but I'm not into anything too esoteric.
 
Apple Music and Spotify predominantly, although the former’s largely taken over. Spotify is better at the cross’sell’ stuff, but I find Apple’s more curated selection a bit deeper in the more specialised genres (mainly electronic/dance/soundsytem/reggae stuff I tend to want to listen to new, perhaps as a legacy of Macs and logic underpinning the bulk of production until comparatively recently,

Still have a whopping room and attic’s worth of vinyl at home, plus a RAID/NAS with all the long squirrelled away CD and digital copies.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top