Best music service?

amdhunter

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What's a good - unlimited streaming - music service for not too much money? I am looking around but I want something that carries the most popular music and a decent library. (For example, a service that is guaranteed to have the top billboard 100 artists at any given time.)

Any suggestions? I'd like to burn the occasional CD but it's not important. It'd be cool if they had a trial or something too.

And yeah, I can pirate stuff off of usenet, or p2p, but I am not interested in that much anymore. It's too much of a PITA to track down what's popular, track names...etc. I'd rather just click a mouse and listen.
 

nobody554

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Pandora's pretty decent. You can't play a song on demand, but they're pretty good about playing the styles you like.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
rhapsody
zunepass...

Do you use either one? I can't believe how little info there is on these music progs lol.


Originally posted by: nobody554
Pandora's pretty decent. You can't play a song on demand, but they're pretty good about playing the styles you like.

I used Rhapsody for about 20min once. I used to use yahoo music for about 1.5yrs when I got a discount was was okay. For the most part services like Pandora and last.fm have supplanted them quite well even on portable devices:)
 

amdhunter

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Originally posted by: nobody554
Pandora's pretty decent. You can't play a song on demand, but they're pretty good about playing the styles you like.

Yeah, I use Pandora on my iphone while driving. The music repeats too much for my tastes though.
 

amdhunter

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May 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
rhapsody
zunepass...

Do you use either one? I can't believe how little info there is on these music progs lol.


Originally posted by: nobody554
Pandora's pretty decent. You can't play a song on demand, but they're pretty good about playing the styles you like.

I used Rhapsody for about 20min once. I used to use yahoo music for about 1.5yrs when I got a discount was was okay. For the most part services like Pandora and last.fm have supplanted them quite well even on portable devices:)

Yeah, I don't want to put in CC info to try out the libraries. I guess I'll stick to how I've been getting music...lol
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: nobody554
Pandora's pretty decent. You can't play a song on demand, but they're pretty good about playing the styles you like.

Yeah, I use Pandora on my iphone while driving. The music repeats too much for my tastes though.

I like to switch up between last and pandora...good enough for me.