Digital music service?

FoxyRedLa

AT&T's Beats is no longer. I gotta find a new one. Which one?

2-feign-reluctance

Apple

Loving Apple Music. The catalog is deep. Great playlists. When my free trial ends next year I will be paying to continue.

2-feign-reluctance

Apple

Has nothing to do with my allegiance to Apple either. Though I believe they make superior products - Mac user since 1998 and yet to have a problem outside of my first 2002 iPod finally dying. I used the Spotify web player & that thing hung up too much. Same with the app on my phone. Streaming through my work PC, home Macs & iPhone I've yet to have any drops or interruptions with Apple Music.

JimmyV

Other

Amazon Prime Music is the one I go to. It's a service added onto a product I was already paying for so win-win.

FoxyRedLa

2-feign-reluctance said:

Loving Apple Music. The catalog is deep. Great playlists. When my free trial ends next year I will be paying to continue.

I'm on a free trial with Apple as my Beats turned into Apple. Some what slow. I hate hate hate watching the "swirl" ugh!

Other issue with Apple is I cannot find the family option. When I switched and moved my music Apple reported they had some glitches because of the new launch to just simply change this to family in my subscription in the app - still don't have this option.

But considering staying as I'm sure Apple can upgrade me to a family subscription - and I actually just had an ipifany as I type this that I need to explore - and my music moved so I wouldn't have to re-find it all.

Thanks!

JimmyV said:

Amazon Prime Music is the one I go to. It's a service added onto a product I was already paying for so win-win.

Reasonable price?

Empty Glass

Apple

I love Apple Music. Dropped Sirius I like Apple so much.

A single subscription is $9.99 / month

A family plan exists for $14.99 / month

I can get you an answer on how to get a family plan in the morning if you haven't found it. I'm off to bed, long day

ldent42

Other

I don't use streaming services often, but when I do, it's usually Amazon prime. I use Google music too, but only for my own stuff so I can't comment on their selection. For some reason, I can listen to Google music underground when I have no signal.
I was pretty blown away with the selection on Amazon prime though.

FoxyRedLa

Empty Glass said:

I love Apple Music. Dropped Sirius I like Apple so much.

A single subscription is $9.99 / month

A family plan exists for $14.99 / month

I can get you an answer on how to get a family plan in the morning if you haven't found it. I'm off to bed, long day

Thanks EG, but it appears I need an iOS device or MAC to upgrade and I don't have either of those anymore so Apple may be out.

I still have my old iphone. Wonder if I could use that on wifi.....?

FoxyRedLa

Well just finished firing up my old iphone and the apple music app is non existent in the store. I'm going to bed.

PJ_Soul

Spotify

I would actually recommend just keeping your own music library so that you can keep it forever without big brother actually owning it. But if you must stream... I recently signed up to Spotify (to take advantage of the 4 month trial at least) and it's pretty fantastic.

FoxyRedLa

I thought about that too. Between my husband and I it gets used. I'm still thoroughly contenplating.

JimmyV

Other

FoxyRedLa said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Loving Apple Music. The catalog is deep. Great playlists. When my free trial ends next year I will be paying to continue.

I'm on a free trial with Apple as my Beats turned into Apple. Some what slow. I hate hate hate watching the "swirl" ugh!

Other issue with Apple is I cannot find the family option. When I switched and moved my music Apple reported they had some glitches because of the new launch to just simply change this to family in my subscription in the app - still don't have this option.

But considering staying as I'm sure Apple can upgrade me to a family subscription - and I actually just had an ipifany as I type this that I need to explore - and my music moved so I wouldn't have to re-find it all.

Thanks!

JimmyV said:

Amazon Prime Music is the one I go to. It's a service added onto a product I was already paying for so win-win.

Reasonable price?

Prime is I think $99 for the year. Maybe a little more. But it includes a ton of different stuff. Streaming music, streaming video including some really good original/exclusive programming, free two-day shipping on all Amazon orders, to name a few. Worth checking out if you do a lot of business with Amazon.

Amongst the Ani

Other

Big fan of amazon music as well. Less than Apple music for a year and you get the free shipping and everything else mentioned above.

FoxyRedLa

Thanks Jimmy! Thanks Ani!

tempo_n_groove

If it's strictly streaming I use Pandora. It's free.
If I'm downloading I use Apple lossless.

jeffbr

Other

PJ_Soul said:

I would actually recommend just keeping your own music library so that you can keep it forever without big brother actually owning it. But if you must stream... I recently signed up to Spotify (to take advantage of the 4 month trial at least) and it's pretty fantastic.

I use Spotify and Pandora free streaming services for checking out music or playing random playlists. But I do what PJ_Soul suggests and keep my own music library. I recently installed Plex (https://plex.tv/) on a server and have my music and videos there. I can stream it to any of my devices wherever I am. So I have access to my library at all times. I also have most of my music uploaded to Google Play for the same purpose. You can upload 50,000 songs to your Google Play account for free, so your music library can be available where you have a connection to the Internet.

ldent42

Other

JimmyV said:

FoxyRedLa said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Loving Apple Music. The catalog is deep. Great playlists. When my free trial ends next year I will be paying to continue.

I'm on a free trial with Apple as my Beats turned into Apple. Some what slow. I hate hate hate watching the "swirl" ugh!

Other issue with Apple is I cannot find the family option. When I switched and moved my music Apple reported they had some glitches because of the new launch to just simply change this to family in my subscription in the app - still don't have this option.

But considering staying as I'm sure Apple can upgrade me to a family subscription - and I actually just had an ipifany as I type this that I need to explore - and my music moved so I wouldn't have to re-find it all.

Thanks!

JimmyV said:

Amazon Prime Music is the one I go to. It's a service added onto a product I was already paying for so win-win.

Reasonable price?

Prime is I think $99 for the year. Maybe a little more. But it includes a ton of different stuff. Streaming music, streaming video including some really good original/exclusive programming, free two-day shipping on all Amazon orders, to name a few. Worth checking out if you do a lot of business with Amazon.

There's ways to get it cheaper though. They've got Amazon mom and Amazon student. I pay $50/year for Amazon student and it came with a six month free trial. The only thing you need is a .edu email.