Advice sought - Digital Music

Crawfy

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I am in the midst of my free trial period of Apple Music, and pretty impressed with how easy it is to use. Love the playlist function and it saves me having to carry all my cassettes for my Walkman ( joke)

Heard however that it is not Sonos compatible (we're buying a new house and Sonos is on my Santa list)

Looking for advice on digital music providers re cost, user friendliness and depth of catelogue etc - Napster, Spotify etc

I'm no John Peel, but like the easy access to whatever music is floating about inside my head
 
I have Squeezebox throughout the house and use it with Spotify. It costs £9.99 a month & works really well. I can control the music from my tablet or desktop PC, as well as using the remote control that comes with the Squeezebox.
 
I was looking at Apple music the other day. How does it work? I'm not an apple person and have a htc phone, a laptop at home and the kids have a couple of Galaxy tabs. I also dj and was wondering if you can download tunes, burn them and keep them until the end of the trial period? If you can then it would be a no brainer for me to back up all my tunes and get decent quality rather than ripping them from compilations etc.

We all have spotify which is great imo if you know the artist your searching for but feel like the playlists are ok in parts but I can never find any playlists that I can listen to without having to flick past certain tunes all the time. (I could be using it wrong so it may be user error rather than the playlists or spotify)

I'm similar to you crawfy were I like to discover new tunes and artists but I always go back to house music but get annoyed with some of the tracks that are on the playlists.
 
Marshy77 said:
I was looking at Apple music the other day. How does it work? I'm not an apple person and have a htc phone, a laptop at home and the kids have a couple of Galaxy tabs. I also dj and was wondering if you can download tunes, burn them and keep them until the end of the trial period? If you can then it would be a no brainer for me to back up all my tunes and get decent quality rather than ripping them from compilations etc.

We all have spotify which is great imo if you know the artist your searching for but feel like the playlists are ok in parts but I can never find any playlists that I can listen to without having to flick past certain tunes all the time. (I could be using it wrong so it may be user error rather than the playlists or spotify)

I'm similar to you crawfy were I like to discover new tunes and artists but I always go back to house music but get annoyed with some of the tracks that are on the playlists.
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Hi Marshy,
Nope looks like you cant 'keep' the tracks after the trial.
For the playlists, you can search for an artist and it will build a "Best of" for them
It also lets you tell it what type of music you like so that it can propose artists
I am sure it is not Android or Sonos compatible but they are trying to get there for the end of the year.
I haven't checked out the House/Dance selection yet...going thru a chill out period at the moment haha
 
Crawfy said:
Hi Marshy,
Nope looks like you cant 'keep' the tracks after the trial.
For the playlists, you can search for an artist and it will build a "Best of" for them
It also lets you tell it what type of music you like so that it can propose artists
I am sure it is not Android or Sonos compatible but they are trying to get there for the end of the year.
I haven't checked out the House/Dance selection yet...going thru a chill out period at the moment haha
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Yes thought that might be the case with 'keeping' the tracks. Seems a good idea but struggle to see how the artists benefit from having there music on there and make any money from doing so but that's a totally different thread all together.

I enjoy more chilled music too just struggle to find playlists that suit, on spotify you'll have a great playlist then a few really tunes spoil it but again that'll be personal preference.
 
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