Best music provider (or are they all the same)??

[Dave7]

Make a playlist and ask it to play that. Will that work?

Apparently not. If I want specific tunes I need to have Spotify prem or similar.

 

[rualexander]

My Spotify free account only plays an advert every half hour or so, I can live with that, also easy enough to select any music you like through the app.
I either use bluetooth or chromecast though and not a smart speaker.

 

[Dave7]

My Spotify free account only plays an advert every half hour or so, I can live with that, also easy enough to select any music you like through the app.
I either use bluetooth or chromecast though and not a smart speaker.

Yes, thats why its going back. I can do the same as you and my Roberts radio is a better sound than the speaker.
Ii suppose it must be nice to just say "google, play x, y or z" but I am not going to pay £120 a year for it

 

[flake99please]

ITunes makes me shudder every time I think of it.

Never had an issue with it myself. I had tried Spotify before iTunes, but found the sound quality inferior.

 

[Dave7]

Never had an issue with it myself. I had tried Spotify before iTunes, but found the sound quality inferior.

Now that surprises me.
I have absolutely how these streaming gizmos work but I assumed the 'sound' would be identical and dependant on your phone/speaker etc.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Tidal do CD quality or above (for a price), if you are that interested that is. I'm not sure that the others are quite as good quality, depends if it matters.

I have Spotify Premium which streams at 320kbps and it sounds superb. I did consider the faster services of eg Tidal but I don't think it would make any difference to my listening pleasure.

I'm a quite fussy listener with decent kit (Arcam rPlay streamer, Sugden Masterclass amplification, Dynaudio speakers) and I can't tell the difference between lossless and 320kbps.

Although maybe my old ears have a bearing on this.

 

[mustang1]

Don't you get that thing where, after downloading music, sometimes the music disappears after a while due to license expiring? I see that on the odd occasion.

BTW I use Prime most of the time.

 

[NorthernDave]

Another Prime user here. For a "free" service it's difficult to fault, although for truly exhaustive selection of what you want to listen to you'd need to pay for their premium service.

 

[icowden]

To be fair, my issue with iTunes isn't with the streaming service. It's trying to get music from my PC onto an iDevice. With a normal MP3 player you just drag and drop and a good one can play any format. Most of my music is OGG for example.

 

[Electric_Andy]

IME:

Spotify (premium): used it for a while but got fed up with it suggesting my next songs. Also didn't like the interface.
Amazon Music: Even when paying for full Prime membership, you only get limited selection of music without upgrading further to prime music. They didn't have many of the bands I like on there.

And winner is: Google Play Music. £10/month, has voice control (handy for the car), I can find 95% of the things I search for. You also get free access to YouTube Music which always has the remaining 5% of music I can't find on Google Play (and with no ads). You can download albums to hear online, and make playlists etc.

 

[NorthernSky]

Yes, I have that on my phone.
But.......
If I say to my device eg "right google, play the beatles" it/she just says "sorry, to choose specific tunes you need a premium streaming account" (not those exact words).
I can tell it "play classical music" but I cant tell it to play eg 1812 overture.
TBH.....I can do better on my phone and bluetooth it to my Roberts radio

i was going to say i use spotify a lot with the free account but not with a wifi speaker
that's a shame.i think spotify is pretty good, they have a massive choice of music and it's not too expensive

 

[AndyRM]

Spotify Premium for me too. The free version is irritating, but the family option of £15 a month represents excellent value for money.

 

[Skibird]

I never realised how many words I was getting wrong in songs until we got Amazon Echo Show, even songs I've known for years that I was 100% sure I knew...…………….……...I didn't lol.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

iTunes here.

 

[MontyVeda]

iTunes here.

Aren't they shutting down the iTunes store in the near future?

I half heard something on the radio the other day to that effect.