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Posted: 12:02 - 28 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Well for a start you can create as many personalised playlists as you want for yourself or anyone else that uses the account.
There are a ton of free tools that allow you to keep your Spotify music if you're too cheap to continue paying the subscription.
Cancelling the subscription is about 2-3 clicks, such a PITA
Buying digital albums seems to be working great for you so far! I guarantee you apple is not the issue, the problem originates elsewhere...
You should just go back to buying CD's and then ripping to digital, although something tells me that might cause more problems that will no doubt be the fault of the disc publisher.
Clearly we're never going to convince you otherwise as you obviously know better than everyone else. Good luck. ____________________ Observation is the greatest source of wisdom. |
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Posted: 13:17 - 28 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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vice wrote: | Clearly we're never going to convince you otherwise as you obviously know better than everyone else. Good luck. |
I do know what would suit me better than everyone else, likewise you seem to think you know me better than I do...
I don't want to start faffing about even more with free tools, I've had my time doing that and quite frankly prefer spending time with my family and being out and about.
And I've already put all of our home CD's onto my laptop, which is why I can also have it all on an SD card playing in my car. Just need to keep doing this instead of relying on Streaming sites.
Thanks for all the tips and ideas though. ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
Current: Yamaha TDM 900 (Comfy, light but big, power when needed). |
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Posted: 13:35 - 28 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Feasty wrote: |
- Hardly besides the point, means I waste my mobile data streaming, and what if I live in a bad signal area or go on holiday somewhere without a signal (which is what I'll be doing for 2 weeks in a short while). |
You can download playlists to your device with one-click, if you have a pov-spec data plan, then just sync stuff before you leave the house.
Feasty wrote: | Yes but having to use the same account on each device, making it more difficult to personalise. |
Personally, I use Google Play music these days - but it's very similar to Spotify. I can have six distinct users on my account which can all operate independently from one another, but if I use the same user across my own personal devices then all of my stuff is there, as I want it.
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- but that's just it, I don't really 'own' it do I |
But ultimately, so what? I used to be like this, I was a one-maybe-two-albums a year kinda guy - I used to listen to the same collection of songs in different orders - but since I took the plunge and signed up to Spotify (before jumping ship to Play Music) I now listen to _far_ more music than I used to. The system learns the types of music that I like and suggests music that I may like, which actually works really well.
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- Nope, coz I never signed up for it, just did lots of research. The good news is I don't have to mess about cancelling everything when they try to start charging after the first month |
It isn't 2005 any longer, all mainstream firms wised up to this a long time ago (Netflix/Play/Spotify et al) - if they make if hard for you to leave (like they did yesteryear), then they'd maybe gain an extra month out of you, but you're not going to go back, ever. They now make it _extremely_ easy to leave and re-join as and when you want, they do not want a bad taste left in the customer's mouth. Try it. ____________________ '12 NC700S & '12 CB600F Hornet [Stolen by some dickless twat] Suzuki GT500 shed |
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Ripping music from CDs?
srsly? |
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srsly... so after having paid for all your CD's, you'd then pay even more every month to have those very same songs and albums available on your devices.
Each to their own eh! ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
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got about 100gb of music that I "own" sitting on a NAS that I haven't touched in about 3 years, been putting off going through it all trying to find stuff that I can't get through music services and get rid of the rest, it's a monumental job ____________________ Observation is the greatest source of wisdom. |
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Hmmm, okay, okay I get it - I'm an old git with an old music mentality!
I like listening to the same albums over and over again, maybe go back to ones I bought years ago and go - 'Oh yeah, they were great!'. I'll buy the odd album through the year 1-3 perhaps, but generally I either listen to what I've got or if I want to listen to something different - I'll turn the radio on. I certainly don't feel the need to pay to be spoon fed music I might not like, I'm capable of finding music I like myself, or from word of mouth.
Music isn't my life though, I listen to the local radio to and from work and occasionally an album or 2. And I don't get time to listen to music at work - that's when I work. My wife is the same.
So whilst you continue to push Spotify, streaming etc to the hilt regardless, try to bear in mind we don't all have the same interest/passion for it. ____________________ Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
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Figured I'd butt in here.... I haven't downloaded any music for a few years now, but I started back when you had to upload a song to an FTP site to download 2, it could take up to a week for 1 song too (good ol' dial up).
I've used Spotify on a friends mac and didn't get on with it (spotify or the mac), if I want to listen to a particular song (that I don't have), then I'll watch it on youtube usually.
My current MP3 folder contains this:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/andy36586/MP3s_zpslel05x0k.jpg
One of my ex's got an ipod, which I downloaded itunes to transfer music to it.... it started converting the above collection to .aac files.
The thing that got me though was trying to remove itunes.... after a couple of hours fighting with it, it was easier to just format the C: drive and start over.
Since then I've had a hatred for cr-Apple products. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 1 day ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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