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Music Streaming Services: What do you use, what do you like about it?

I have the complete opposite experience.

If I listen to a certain album - take Eminem's latest one - and I'll play it a few times in a row to listen to it while I'm at work or whatever -- then, say, change up and put on my "Gym" playlist with some harder heavier stuff, whatever

Then if I randomly have it play the "Your Mix" playlist that is SUPPOSED to be a curated list of "endless personalized music" it just fucking jumps back and forth between an Eminem song and a Tool song. LIke, the same 10 songs each.

It's horrible.
 
mikev said:
I have the complete opposite experience.

If I listen to a certain album - take Eminem's latest one - and I'll play it a few times in a row to listen to it while I'm at work or whatever -- then, say, change up and put on my "Gym" playlist with some harder heavier stuff, whatever

Then if I randomly have it play the "Your Mix" playlist that is SUPPOSED to be a curated list of "endless personalized music" it just fucking jumps back and forth between an Eminem song and a Tool song. LIke, the same 10 songs each.

It's horrible.
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Wow. That does suck. I'm a creature of habit even with music. I have 5 or 6 multi hour playlist on spotify for different moods. Booty mix #3 for company, gym pump, riding tunes, surf rock, etc. Spotify is great for making and sharing playlists. It's just "ok" for me at picking a genera and finding stuff I like. It does ok on Surf music or Hop hop but it gets my rock tastes off. YMMV. Strangely enough plain old youtube seems to get my mood accurately most of the time still. I'm on my PC at work and i'm using it now.
 
Tidal is the schiznit. Especially if you have the gear to exploit it. :2cents
 
TylerW said:
I'm aware of that feature.

It means I need to load my music library into, and carry it around on, every single device that I want to listen to music on.

I'd rather not.
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What are you doing now with those bands tracks, Tyler?
 
2legs2wheels said:
Perfect thread, what do you guys think of Pandora and SoundCloud?
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I use pandora as well when I don't want to put any effort into my listening. I also have amazon music with my prime account.

I want to hear new music and different genres, but with pandora you don't often get that.
 
Holeshot said:
What are you doing now with those bands tracks, Tyler?
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I ported my personal library over to Youtube Music, but the file handling was a shitshow and most of it is in an enormous "various artists" album with like 8000 unsorted songs.

I also downloaded it from GPM before it closed. I have it backed up in a few places, and I also added it to my plex server.

I would *really* like to have a streaming subscription service and my own music library in the same place, like I could have with google play music. But I don't think that exists anymore.
 
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It's an interesting idea if it doesn't exist...
 
That one from Apple that works on my iPhone. I must be the only one :dunno
 
Another vote for Spotify. I, like Tyler, was using Google play music and it was great. I didn't even fuck with the YouTube shit because I knew it would be garbage. My wife already had a Spotify account so she just added me to hers.

I like it well enough. I tend to just use the artist "radio" that plays music similar to a given artist, and it's not quite as good as Google music was. The interface is lacking too imo, but it's not horrible.
 
If it's music I really like and I totally want to support the artist, I just buy the FLACs on Bandcamp and play on my Linux computer using Sayanara. If it's my phone, I used VLC.

For *streaming* (like in my car) - I use Amazon Music.

If I am just working on my computer and I want to hear music, I use plain old You Tube and just make sure I am running uBlock Origen. Most of the bands I like don't monetize, so I am not screwing them. They just put their songs out there so people will learn about the band. For bands I really like (like Drudkh) - I will buy their digital music like I mentioned above.

My home office stereo is pretty cool, BTW. I am using an SET tube amp for the mains, with a small tube pre-amp, another stage pre-amp, an analog EQ, another T-amp for the rear, and a sub. I have four Klipsch speakers.
 
TylerW said:
I ported my personal library over to Youtube Music, but the file handling was a shitshow and most of it is in an enormous "various artists" album with like 8000 unsorted songs.

I also downloaded it from GPM before it closed. I have it backed up in a few places, and I also added it to my plex server.

I would *really* like to have a streaming subscription service and my own music library in the same place, like I could have with google play music. But I don't think that exists anymore.
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Spotify can manage/play local files

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/listen-to-local-files/

I haven't played with this feature so it might suck :dunno
 
Have you thought about using a NAS, like Synology, to store and play your own music? I have over 40K songs stored on my Synology NAS in both FLAC and MP3 formats. The Synology NAS has apps where I can access the music from all my devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, SmartTV, streaming device, etc)

I just check out CD's from the local public libraries. The public libraries are surpisingly well stocked with music.
 
RS250 Chester said:
Have you thought about using a NAS, like Synology, to store and play your own music? I have over 40K songs stored on my Synology NAS in both FLAC and MP3 formats. The Synology NAS has apps where I can access the music from all my devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, SmartTV, streaming device, etc)

I just check out CD's from the local public libraries. The public libraries are surpisingly well stocked with music.
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Did you read my several posts where I mention that I have my music library on a plex server?

I want a music service where I can have my music library and access to a streaming library in one place, like Google play music was.

But I think I'm learning: it ain't gonna happen.
 
TylerW said:
Did you read my several posts where I mention that I have my music library on a plex server?

I want a music service where I can have my music library and access to a streaming library in one place, like Google play music was.

But I think I'm learning: it ain't gonna happen.
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No I haven't read the entire thread, but I did see that you are using Plex. But from what I gathered, you can't access your own music outside your own network. Thus with a NAS like Synology, your music is accessible wherever you go. I can access my music from anywhere by just opening the app, but all the music is stored on my NAS. The NAS just needs be on all the time.

Plex does have a Remote Access feature and I think they incorporated Tidal. I have Plex Server on my Synology NAS, I haven't used it yet, but should fire it up and see what they have updated and what's now available for streaming.
 
Plex allows your access to your media anywhere with an internet connection - at least everywhere I've tested. The mobile app isn't awesome, but it's better than nothing. Web app is pretty good.

I also have it running on a raspberry pi, so having it up all the time isn't really an issue.
 
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