Pandora vs songs on phone

[Dice144]

Let me start off with that I love Pandora radio. However, with a good set of headphones it really is horrid audio quality. Transferring songs to my micro SD and playing them without streaming.

Anything similar to pandora with less ads and better audio quality (will not pay monthly fee I am cheap!)

Slacker Radio was to buggy on my Win 7 phone.

 

[Yuriman]

Have you considered Google Play Music? Will that work for your purposes?

 

[wirednuts]

low quality ad driven free isnt good enough, op wants free hd streaming. hmm...

theres always youtube...

 

[exdeath]

Google Play = stream 20,000 of your own songs at 320 kbps

 

[bigrash]

That's why I don't like to stream music on my phone.

 

[Wingznut]

Anything similar to pandora with less ads and better audio quality (will not pay monthly fee I am cheap!)

It's actually a yearly fee ($36/yr) and well worth it, imho.

 

[Mopetar]

Sorry, if you want less ads and higher quality, you're going to need to pay one way or another, unless you just want to pirate all of your music. The only other option that I can think of off of the top of my head would be to see if anyone you know has an Ampache server with music you like to listen to. That would be free, ad-free, and potentially higher quality unless the person who runs the server doesn't have quality rips.

Edit: Not sure if there'a an Ampache app for Windows Phone, but the web client might work fine.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Google Play streaming with HQ turned on. Uses a ton of data though if you dont have unlimited.

 

[RedRooster]

8tracks is alright.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Seems as though there are those that recommend streaming and others, like myself, that can't stand the crappy quality of most streaming music and don't want to burn through tons on bandwidth if you stream higher bit rate music.

With flash memory/storage as cheap as it is today there's no reason to not have lots of storage and just playing music from that instead of streaming. That way you get high quality music without wasting data/bandwidth.

OTH, some of the streaming proponents will accuse you of hording...


Brian

 

[Anubis]

Google Play = stream 20,000 of your own songs at 320 kbps

i 2nd this, google music is excellent. however you need to own or steal a ton of music to make it worth while. but for those with large colections its great


slacker is higher quality than pandora if you want pure streaming

 

[vi edit]

You said WP7 so I'm assuming you are still on that OS? If you aren't on that then give it a chance again. Slacker is pure rubbish on WP and one of (among a lot of other) reasons why I tried and left WP8.

On iOS it's an awesome product. The $4 a month offline caching is awesome. The sound quality is great and not having to worry about reception and data useage is a huge relief.

Plus what I like about slacker is the ability to listen to predefined stations (classic rock, comedy, christmas music, ect) along with being able to define my own.

 

[Anubis]

really the OS version makes that large of a difference? would not have guessed. been fine on android quality wise, the app used to be coded like sh*t but its gotten much better

 

[Red Storm]

Google Music. :thumbsup:

For WP7, I have no idea what to suggest...

 

[ControlD]

iHeartRadio also has much better sound quality than Pandora and it is free.

 

[Brian Stirling]

The problem with streaming high quality music is that it eats through a ton more data and it can be real easy to go over your monthly allotment -- way over.


Brian

 

[Mopetar]

The problem with streaming high quality music is that it eats through a ton more data and it can be real easy to go over your monthly allotment -- way over.

Brian

If he's at work, he can probably just do it over the WiFi there. I'm assuming that's what most people do, at least. Might also live somewhere with good municipal WiFi.

 

[KentState]

Spotify is only $120 a year. Pony up the $10 a month and get 320kbps streaming, local playlists and access to millions of songs.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Google Play streaming with HQ turned on. Uses a ton of data though if you dont have unlimited.

yeah I definitely have quite a few 224kbps or 256kbps or even 320kbps MP3s. It drains my data like mad. I put up with Pandora or Slacker because at 64kbps AAC I can get quite a bit of audio with decent quality.

 

[exdeath]

I might be confused with Google Drive, but I'm sure you can mark songs and albums for offline use as needed when you can't stream.

A neat option would be to have the device stream X hours of random music to a cache for seamless use when data isn't available.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I might be confused with Google Drive, but I'm sure you can mark songs and albums for offline use as needed when you can't stream.

A neat option would be to have the device stream X hours of random music to a cache for seamless use when data isn't available.

That is exactly what Google Music does automatically. My most played tracks stayed in a cache.

You can mark certain songs you want for offline play too.

 

[maniac5999]

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microS...=64gb+micro+sd

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[Oyeve]

Buy a 64GB MSD card.

 

[Brian Stirling]

If he's at work, he can probably just do it over the WiFi there. I'm assuming that's what most people do, at least. Might also live somewhere with good municipal WiFi.

Or, you could just put high bit rate music on you phones storage and not have to worry about wifi at all...


Brian

 

[Brian Stirling]

Buy a 64GB MSD card.

I have a 64GB uSD card in my 7.7 inch Sammy tab -- gives me 80GB total.

I'm hoping the HTC DLX will have a uSD slot and the larger 2500mAHr battery that has been rumored -- that woud be pretty sweet with 80GB of storage...


Brian