lickerpoet

There is no free lunch; and if you are going to be playing music in your public business, there is also no free music except for broadcast TV or radio. I just moved into the current century electronically by purchasing an internet ready receiver and some quality floor speakers. Now I must subscribe to a music service or risk suit from the 3 music unions. Which subscription service is the best bang for the buck, and is their audio quality fairly equivalent?

Trollheart

I use Spotify all the time (Pandora is not available in Ireland) and have nothing but praise for it.

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lickerpoet

I don't believe Spotify has a business service. Though the music selection and audio quality may be excellent, unless they have recently added a business subscription service,that is, not for personal use only, there is no way to legally play Spotify in your business.

I personally love Pandora, because you can pick a genre of music, and then be surprised by artists you may have never heard before, or obscure songs that just don't make it into popular, broadcast rotation; but are still within this desired genre of music.

Thank you for your input.

Carpe Mortem

I use Rhapsody, ten bucks a month and a huge selection. I've only come across a few bands they don't have. You can use the radio feature too if you wanna find new stuff, although I usually just use last.fm then find individual bands on Rhapsody and add them to the library.

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Vitne Eveille

The most widely used seem to be Spotify and Deezer. I've never used Deezer, but Spotify is pretty cool. I loved Pandora living in the US, but now that I live abroad in Europe, I can't access Pandora.