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Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Out of curiosity do you listen to much music at 'the PC'?
Zune/Xbox Music pass, Spotify Premium etc. Just make it so easy to have playlists etc syncronised across all your devices.
I never really had much media on my phone until I switched to the all you can eat rental system.
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Problem for me with those systems is that they're quite expensive (£120/year in some cases) and you've got the double hit that if you start really streaming "toons" then you're going to rapidly use up your bandwidth allowance.Plus when I've looked at those sites they tended to focus pretty much on the dross currently in the charts, with the odd "classic" Stones, Who, etc track.
What's needed is for the carriers to stop messing around with having limits or, failing that, do some kind of partner deal where downloads from that partner music site didn't count against your allowance.
My S3 has a 64GB card installed - and a 40GB+ music library taking up a goodly portion of that, (the rest for app storage). I could certainly manage on less, I've figured out that a 32GB fixed memory would be eminently usable for me. I'm a lazy pack rat - but my largesse does mean that I'm able to dive into the dusty corners of my collection (e.g. Morris Minor and the Majors a couple of days ago, and currently listening to the Fat Boys) when the mood takes me.
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My problem is the selection, im not a pop music person at all and there is never enough of what i really want available on the streaming services. The cost actually isnt that high IMO, if you consider thats the price of about 12 full DRM free albums and i reckon you could easily listen to more than that over the course of the year. I am a bit concerned over how much of it actually gets back to the musician though :/Problem for me with those systems is that they're quite expensive (£120/year in some cases) and you've got the double hit that if you start really streaming "toons" then you're going to rapidly use up your bandwidth allowance.
I used to, but that was all steamed through my various Squeezeboxes. Right now I'm reliant on good old CDs in various small CD players round the house. I need to re-build my server (and get a RAID array looked at having data recovered) to get all that going again. Never really fancied any of the streaming services, just don't appeal to me. I don't even buy MP3 downloads, just CDs and rip.
The Stststststststutter Rap!Problem for me with those systems is that they're quite expensive (£120/year in some cases) and you've got the double hit that if you start really streaming "toons" then you're going to rapidly use up your bandwidth allowance.
What's needed is for the carriers to stop messing around with having limits or, failing that, do some kind of partner deal where downloads from that partner music site didn't count against your allowance.
My S3 has a 64GB card installed - and a 40GB+ music library taking up a goodly portion of that, (the rest for app storage). I could certainly manage on less, I've figured out that a 32GB fixed memory would be eminently usable for me. I'm a lazy pack rat - but my largesse does mean that I'm able to dive into the dusty corners of my collection (e.g. Morris Minor and the Majors a couple of days ago, and currently listening to the Fat Boys) when the mood takes me.
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
I still buy a lot of CDs, but mostly if its classical or orchestral. The days of people like Pink Floyd pushing the boundries of mastering technology are gone. Something which has been autotuned sounds the same at MP3 or WMA (I find WMA providers better quality to my ears than MP3, and no one is selling OGG!).
That is how the rental thing got me, no hassle setting up my own RAID, just use a bunch of UPnP goodness from a cloudy service. I have had one storm on that cloud front, but thats because I was stupid enough to buy Sonos... Never again.
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Couple of guys at work love sonos and rave on about how everyone should get it, what was your issue with it?
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I posted a thread about this a while ago, luckily best buy's reciever ship helped me out a bit, but....
Sonos pushed a mandatory update.
Madatory update killed MS-DRM playback support. Meaning all my rented music is un-playable. They simply suggested using Spotify, which Sonos have now a cosy relationship with. When you consider it costs me £6 a month for the Zune Pass, or £10 a month for Spotify which doesn't have the benefit of say, working on my xbox, or working as seemlessly on my phone, Sonos are now on my ultimate **** list. The damn setup was only 3 months old. When your paying for convience (the audio quality is really crap for the dosh, my £120 hifi is much better.... as you'd expect!) to pull such a move is just not acceptable.
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Really don't have that problem on Zune, thou they do lack a lot of Live Albums.Problem for me with those systems is that they're quite expensive (£120/year in some cases) and you've got the double hit that if you start really streaming "toons" then you're going to rapidly use up your bandwidth allowance.
In fact the only artist + album I've found I can't rent is Californication.
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Wow, have you seen the prices on the 16gb nexus 4? I thought it is pretty good - for sim free (under 300)
https://play.google.com/store/devices?feature=corpus_selector
Just dont order from the play store... wait till you can get them in a UK based shop
any reason why biscuit? Are they late to fulfil orders?...I didnt really follow how things went with the nexus 7 launch
The nexus 7 launch was a nightmare, after the order went through you couldnt cancel it or have the address changed, even though it was weeks away from being posted. People pre-ordered them weeks before the launch, they others were able to walk into their local store and buy one before the preorders were filled. After getting so many complaints they actually closed the telephone line completely for a couple of days!
They also charge £10 or so for postage when you can get them postage free from a lot of other e-tailers.
I wont be ordering hardware from the google play store again, thats for sure!
oh that sounds rubbish then. hopefully they learnt from it...
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