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Old 11-07-2012, 19:28
Treble
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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could reccommend Spotify alternatives?

I find it annoying that there isnt a way to just browse the catalgue of music - unless I'm missing something?

Any reccommendations. It's just to use on the PC (I don't need access on my phone etc.)

Thanks!
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Old 11-07-2012, 19:32
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I use Last FM which is brilliant. They have a huge library of music and at £3 a month can't be beat on price
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Old 11-07-2012, 19:39
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How about Deezer, Grooveshark and We7 and I understand that all of them pay royalties to the artists concerned?

Spotify quite rightly came in for a lot of criticism when they made their controversial changes (i.e. sold out) and a lot of people have moved to other sites now. I'd rather that listeners went to other legitimate sites instead as opposed to torrents, file sharing, etc.
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Old 11-07-2012, 19:56
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Rdio is REALLY good. Been using it for a month now.

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Old 11-07-2012, 21:54
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It does annoy me that these services (or at least Rdio and Spotify) charge double for mobile. It is exactly the same music with, if anything, a slightly poorer application - a purely artificial distinction.

It'll be interesting to see how they deal with Windows 8 which will be a full-blown operating system on a (relatively) mobile device. I'm not sure how they'll differentiate then.
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Old 11-07-2012, 23:33
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I use Last FM which is brilliant. They have a huge library of music and at £3 a month can't be beat on price
Last FM is good - well for their audio quality (probably one of the best sounding sites of this kind) but you cannot build a playlist of your own...
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Old 12-07-2012, 11:30
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I wouldn't be too critical of services "selling out".

Here are both sides of the revenue story from the artist's perspective...

http://www.cultofmac.com/38097/infog...han-at-retail/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...-is-bunk.shtml

...of course, both can be true. Depends if you compare playing on Spotify with CD purchases or listening to the radio. IME it's somewhere between the two in our house.


The "see also" at the bottom of Spotify's wikipedia article is a magnet for other services...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

Cheers,
David.
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Old 14-07-2012, 01:28
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I've tried most of them out, and it seems like Grooveshark is my preffered one.
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Old 17-07-2012, 01:54
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I've tried most of them out, and it seems like Grooveshark is my preffered one.
Ewww.... not to my liking as such regards audio quality...but a nice site for random music on shuffle.

Have a listen to 'Led Zeppelin' - 'Trampled Underfoot'...it sounds like an old TDK D-90 tape...then listen to 'Frida' - 'I Know There's Something Going On'...very bass light and albeit sounds better than the Zeppelin track... with a touch more treble, the audio is still poor quality.

Having listened to futher tracks, every track sounds different, and at a different volume level.

It is similar to someone downloading tracks at different bit-rates with absolutely no concern for audio quality.

This is ok for someone who is un-fussed about audio quality and is ok through a pair of small cheap PC speakers...
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Old 17-07-2012, 08:20
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TuneIn

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Old 18-07-2012, 00:10
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i use vtuner, it came with a subscription with my musicpal - which despite having a replacement knob still works. love scrolling through millions of stations or just randomly pawing at the buttons
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