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  • Which music streaming service?
  • butterbean
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    I figure it’s time I joined the real world and signed up for something, but there is a lot of choice out there, so after some pointers.

    iPhone user, with a Mini Mac that is hooked up to the TV. Avid hater of iTunes & having a look at the current version looks a bit more pretty than the last time I used it, but still amazingly un-user friendly. iTunes on my phone seems equally as rubbish, so happy to ditch that.

    The obvious is Spotify – purely as i’ve heard of it, I have dabbled with Soundcloud & 8tracks in the past but never really settled on anything.

    Is there anything that’s head & shoulders above the rest? Something that would ideally play nicely with a Sonos setup too. I guess price is much of a muchness between all of them?

    Ideas please!

    allthegear
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    iTunes. 😆

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    mudhead84
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    I got Deezer thrown in free with a Sonos product. Didn’t think I would end up keeping it but I wouldn’t be without it now. Pay £5 a month for premium. Real easy to work, good library of songs and good sound quality.

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    jambalaya
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    Be careful with Apple Music, plenty of stories of how it has deleted sections of people’s music library 😯

    (note I am a fanboi and won’t sign up for the free trial)

    P-Jay
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    Try Apple Music for 3 months for free, then sign up for a trial of Microsoft Groove, don’t take it up, they’ll offer you 4 months free.

    Take 7 months to decide.

    mikewsmith
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    Try them, beauty of online msic is you can try and then try another really easily. Currently a spotify user here and I like it, the bit where I can swap it from my PC to phone to chromecast with 2 clicks is great.

    butterbean
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    Is there import/export compatibility of stuff I have liked/built into playlists between platforms?

    I’m not one for repeatedly going over the same things, just for the sake of trying something.

    mikewsmith
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    Not sure on some of them, for spotify I use it differently though, mostly I use the radio (by song/artist/album/playlist) and let it go it’s own way, you train it by saying yes/no if there is something excellent/crap in there.

    slightreturn
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    We have Spotify. Decent. We have it our children’s nurserys plus you can have it on three or four other devices, so me n sis have it at home all on the same account. 90 quid a year I think.

    convert
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    We have Spotify. Decent. We have it our children’s nurserys plus you can have it on three or four other devices, so me n sis have it at home all on the same account. 90 quid a year I think.

    What you have there is Spotify family which is £14.99pm or £180 per year. Your half of the bill I guess is £90. Spotify family seems to take a relatively liberal idea of what a family is, or rather the users do and they don’t seem to care too much(its meant to be member of the same family who live at the same address).

    Jamie
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    Deezer here.

    For me it has the best UI and apps.

    Tried Spotify, but 2 things annoyed me.

    1. Adding an album to favourites adds all the songs to your favourite songs lists.

    2. No ability to ban artists from radio/mixes.

    Other than that I feel it’s much of a muchness between the two. Both much more accomplished than Google Muisc and Amazon music. Not tried Apple, as despite being an iOS and Mac user, I find their apps unnecessarily unintuitive and illogical.

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