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Pandora vs songs on phone

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Dice144

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
exdeath said:
Google Play = stream 20,000 of your own songs at 320 kbps
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
Brian Stirling said:
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
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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.
 
Spotify is only $120 a year. Pony up the $10 a month and get 320kbps streaming, local playlists and access to millions of songs.
 
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.
 
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exdeath said:
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.
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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.
 
Mopetar said:
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.
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Or, you could just put high bit rate music on you phones storage and not have to worry about wifi at all...


Brian
 
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