How Do You Listen To Streaming Music?
 

How Do You Listen To Streaming Music?

01. AM/FM Radio
02. iTunes Radio
03. iHeart Radio
04. Pandora Radio
05. Spotify
06. YouTube Playlists
07. YouTube 1Hr Mix Videos
08. Mix Cloud
09. Sound Cloud
10. TuneIn
11. Other

I barely listen on Spotify but I miss not being able to post my last.fm lists.

I voted other because Groove Music wasn't up there.

I like to use this radio station app called slacker (I have no idea if any of you have ever heard of it). Though, for album listening I use spotify.

Mostly YouTube, sometimes SoundCloud.

I didn't know about Groove Music, thanks for mentioning it, I'll look into it.

Since when is radio a streaming service?

How does Spotify work?

Does it have commercials?
Can you upload any music that isn't yours?
Do you have to pay to use it?
Can you watch music videos on it or is it all audio only?
Can people rate and comment on individual tracks?
Do artists really get paid when their songs get played?

Spotify has commercials but there's a browser add-on version and Ad-Blocker kills the ads. ****in' life hack, bro.

You mean AM/FM Radio? Well, streaming is defined as anything continuous and I didn't specify the exact type of streaming.

Oh oh...... I just realized I forgot to add SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

I use YouTube, but I rarely use their playlists or comps. I usually throw on a full album or live performance or something, usually ones that aren't on Spotify.

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I just remembered another one.

AOL Radio

Does AOL Radio still exist? Anyone still use it? I think you have to have AOL to use it. Does AOL even exist anymore?

I just did a search for car internet radio, and Slacker came up. Now I'm looking over their website, and it also works on computers.

Thanks for mentioning it. I'll look it over.

Are you doing some kind of market research or is it just a thing that interests you?

(I don't stream btw)

I stream a lot - mostly Apple Music (which isn't on your list) as I'm a subscriber and can stream my own collection together with new releases etc, I use both Spotify and Pandora at times, as well as streaming from bandcamp and SoundCloud for less mainstream releases.

Yeah Groove Music showed up with the Windows 10 update and I used to use Zune Software for streaming before that. So I just kind of rolled over and started using it. I even bought a pass so I can use it on my phone and tablet.

I stream exclusively from my own server. The painfully limited libraries of commercial services like Spotify and Pandora are paltry at best, and are inherently inferior to personal libraries as they are limited by licensing restrictions, severely crippling the scale of recordings they offer.

And the idea of entrusting the public's access of media content to a corporation is alarmingly dystopian, especially given the censorship we've already witnessed with content revoked at will or even added when unwanted like in the case of U2.

I'll stick to my own server, thank you.

Mostly just an interest of mine. Before YouTube and everything else, I think my first internet radio experience was with AOL Radio. I was also hunting down individual websites that had their own private streams, and I would use iTunes to stream them. Both the AOL Radio and individual private streams were free and had no commercials, and for AOL Radio, you just had to have AOL, and the others relied on donations.

Then later when I tried SecondLife, all regions in there had internet radio streams, so anything that could be streamed in iTunes could be streamed in SecondLife. So I found even more cool stations to listen to when I was in there.

Then I found out about TuneIn, where every single internet radio stream ever in existence, is all organized and made easy to find and play, and most can be played from TuneIn without iTunes so it made it easier for those unable to use iTunes.

I've been around some people to use Pandora Radio and iHeart Radio, and I absolutely hate them. They have way too many problems.

I love YouTube, but it's been a huge mess since Google bought it. Anyone can flag any videos, and because everything is automated, flags mean instant removal, and there are no records of who flagged what, so that is being abused. Also, copyright owners are claiming ownership over stuff they don't own, stealing money from other copyright owners, and even blocking their viewers in certain countries without their knowledge. Also, copyrights can be sold and traded, meaning permission to use something can later come back as a copyright strike without any warning. Then videos that were allowed to be up, are eventually hit with copyright violations when the owner decides to upload their own copy.

I do love youtube, but I do find myself constantly replacing deleted and blocked videos, and that also includes ones uploaded by the artists and record labels themselves. Even the country region blocks on half the videos is annoying and it makes it difficult to share them.

The best way to share music other than a private personal stream, is MixCloud. You just need professional music editing software to be able to use it.

At the moment, I'm into music videos, but I do have a huge list of internet radio streams to pick from, and I have them set in my iTunes so I can just tune in anytime.

So I've always had an interest in internet radio, but my reason for making this topic was to see what others use and know about. I like to know everything, so if there is something I don't know about, then that interests me.

I agree. That's actually what I meant when I listed iTunes Radio, except now that I think about it, there might be two versions of iTunes Radio. The first one, you insert your own personal private internet radio streams by inserting their addresses. The second one, I never tried so I'm not sure, but I saw iTunes recently added a Radio button. Does anyone know if that button has preset stations or does it just ask you to insert a radio address?

If you're not an Apple Music subscriber you have Beats 1 (different programs with DJs like traditional radio) and a handful of others such as news stations. For subscribers there are on demand curated shows as well as the other types of stations typical of any subscription or ad based service (based on a genre or a track).

You guys are morons, download it illegally like a real man.

Then how do you discover music that you want?

Streaming is not to get it, it is to discover it.

Also, YouTube is the largest pirating company of music, because the videos can be saved to desktops as mp3 files. They don't want anyone to know that though, because then YouTube would be shut down.

You are just a dinosaur, no one downloads music anymore to just take up space on their hard drive then go through the trouble of deleting it to make more space later on.

I haven't deleted anything in years. Hard drives are pretty big lately, haven't you noticed?

Hard drive cost 1980-2009

http://i.imgur.com/cHxntcjl.png

...and to the present.

http://i.imgur.com/FBgDjIcl.png

You are just a dinosaur if you're still worrying about deleting things.

*broke and lazy

But you can download things through Spotify and Apple Music. It's like, best of both worlds.

I know you of all people aren't talking. Don't you organize everything? Do you randomly leave music on your HD that you don't even like or know you won't listen to? :nono:

I always ended up deleting things even if it wasn't a space concern. I rather just stream things and try them out there without having to download. Streaming is far more convenient.

I do very little "randomly." Yes - I meticulously organize my HDDs. And just because I have more media than I could consume in the remainder of my lifetime doesn't stop me from persuing more great music.

Archivists are completists by their very nature. And as I've demonstrated, storage space is a non-issue even for maniacs like myself.

Buy me a 2TB drive then please since you are overflowing with cash. :tramp:

What the hell are you going to do with only 2TB?

All I have is a 1TB hard drive and a 2TB external and that does me just fine.

2TB should last me ages since I stream most of my music anyways.

^

*scoffs* It would compromise my strict moral code to support the media consumption of a man who doesn't have the decency to steal.

I used to store stuff on my hard drive, but now there's no need for it. Though I do like to have some stuff on my hard drive for those stormy days when internet connection goes out. Then I have something to get me by till the internet connection comes back.

Spotify ftw

OK, I should start another survey and ask
"What Kind Of Commercials Do You Enjoy Listening To?"

In the 50's, a T.V. Show would be 25 minutes with 5 minutes of commercials. Then in the next 10 to 20 years, that stretched to 10 minutes of commercials which shortened the T.V. Shows to only 20 minutes. By the 80's, T.V. Shows had become only 15 minutes with 15 minutes of commercials. Now, some T.V. Shows are only 10 minutes with 20 minutes of commercials!

This is the same for AM/FM Radio as well. If you listen to 5 minutes of music, you are also going to be listening to 5 minutes of commercials.

Who has went to a dance club or a music concert, and in the middle of the music, the music stops to play commercials? Have you ever been dancing to music at a club on a dance floor, and then all of a sudden the music stops to tell you about a car sale, then how you can save on home heating costs, and then about a weekend sale at a store that is happening soon, and then about a politician that needs your vote?

How many of the commercials repeat and how often? Do you seriously enjoy listening to the same commercials over and over and over like a psychotic person that has already had a mental break and enjoys the brainwashing?

Spotify is crap, and eventually, everyone will see it for what it really is. It is just another Pandora Radio and iHeart Radio. People only go to it now, because it is the most advertised, but as with anything that is over advertised, it is the worst and uses brainwashing to make itself popular.

Since, I watch a crapload of TV i will comment on this section. I dvr everything so that I can just skip through the commercials. Shows are nowhere near 10 mins of show and 20 mins of commercials. It might not be exactly 25 mins of show and 5 mins of commercials but it's more around the 23 mark and 7 mins of commercials.

I love watching sports with the DVR at home because I can pause the game if I need to use the bathroom or grab food instead of waiting for half-time/commercial breaks. I don't mind streaming my sports, but if I could afford cable I would have it just for that reason alone.