What music services do you subscribe to?

[MeSue]

Since most of my music discovery is in my car (long commutes here in Texas), XM has been my source of choice til now. Recently, however, I've not heard nearly as much interesting new music as I had a few years ago. I'm not sure why, but I need to find another mobile alternative for my alt country and adult pop/rock tastes.

Have you tried Slacker? They have station caching for their mobile apps with a paid plan. If you look them up on Facebook, they may still have a free month promo going on.

One fun thing I like to do with Slacker is create a custom station by searching for some artists I like, then instead of adding the known artists to the station, I use the similar artists list and only add those I have never heard of. So the station is seeded only with unknown artists similar to artists I like. Makes for some interesting discovery!

[cubdog]

MOG for me. Pretty good for $5.00 a month.

cubdog

[Recoveryone]

I have been with Last.FM for about a year now and it works great and gives me nice unheard of artist (to me) since I do not listen to the radio much now days, not that their are stations that play music that I enjoy anyway

[aubuti]

MOG for me. Pretty good for $5.00 a month.

Can you get MOG streaming to Squeezeboxes at that price? I thought that the $10/month "Primo" was required for SBs.

[garym]

Can you get MOG streaming to Squeezeboxes at that price? I thought that the $10/month "Primo" was required for SBs.

good question. i have a trial for MOG, but may go for that instead of Spotify. seems about the same but 1/2 the price!

[azinck3]

I subscribed to Rhapsody for about 9 or 10 years and enjoyed it tremendously. I cancelled it a couple months ago only because now that I'm married with kids I don't use it enough (less free time).

I found the related/similar artist browsing features very helpful, and generally found their catalog quite adequate for my preferences. I always found the sound quality excellent, but then my equipment is more mid-fi than hi-fi. The feeling of freedom to explore virtually any music and any genre was transformative. When I first subscribed I remember hours-long sessions of exploring new music.

The ability to access a diverse range of music without having to amass a large personal collection was especially nice for events like Christmas parties which might require specialized music that I would otherwise never buy. I also liked the fact that I didn't have to mess with storing, backing up, tagging, and otherwise managing a large music collection. It all just worked. I still think cloud services are the future of music, but I thought that 10 years ago and feel like we're still not quite there yet, so we'll see.

[cubdog]

Can you get MOG streaming to Squeezeboxes at that price? I thought that the $10/month "Primo" was required for SBs.

I pay $4.99 a month and stream to my Touch.

cubdog

[Keagy]

I tried several services and ended up liking the SB app and catalog for Rhapsody the best.

Rhapsody has a $4.99 "basic plan" that is streaming only (no mobile device downloads) that works with SB. You have to call customer service and request the "basic plan" as Rhapsody doesn't advertise it.

[pski]

It serves well.