When TTH moves to a new forum and the volume of activity is a pitiful shell of its glory days.
When TTH moves to a new forum and the volume of activity is a pitiful shell of its glory days.
I remember thinking that doing surveys would be the path to monies. Then I realised they were boring as hell.
The glory days have been and gone unfortunately.Originally Posted by Mert
Why are music streaming aeevices almost twice the price of Netflix?
I'd pay about a fiver a month for one but I wouldn't get enough use our of it for a tenner a month. It seems like you get a lot more for your money with Netflix but I maybe I just place more value on TV and films.
I usually just click the middle option without reading anything.
I still think Netflix's selection is just too gash, even when you fuck around with the regions and stuff.
Isn't Spotify free? That's what I use once in a while.
Netflix has fuck all on it. For me anyway, wouldn't pay a euro for it.
Yeah but on mobile it's full of ads and you can't choose the songs you want and you can only skip so many times.
I managed to get WhatsApp working on my phone. What's the point?
Being able to make international calls for free I think.
Sending media other than just text, and what Pepe said. Whatsapp to whatsapp calls over wifi or unlimited data cost not more than you're paying for the plan.
I'm going to switch away from Google Play Music soon as I'm just sick of the shitty UI on the app and the fact that non-US subscribers don't see the Youtube benefits it brings. The main reason I kept it is that it's preinstalled on the Nexus Player and works but I just never listen to music via the TV any more. It'll be Apple Music or back to Spotify, most likely the latter as the former is only of benefit if you have iTunes music, but both look infinitely nicer than the Google one.
So there is no way to stream music for free on a phone? That's disappointing.
Spotify is free but with ads.
But can't choose the songs you want according to Boydy. Tried that with Pandora and it was a 'mare with them choosing nothing but shite.
Yeah you can only choose artist or album which is tedious.
Yeah, you can't. You can only go onto an artist's page or whatever and use shuffle play. And you can only skip songs a few times before it won't let you any more.
I'd probably just waste my data allowance if I had something that worked properly anyway.
You can create playlists on Spotify free too so you can pretty much listen to whatever you want.
One of the big advantages of the subscription on Spotify or GPM (and probably Apple) is that you can download songs for offline play. I usually keep a few 40-50 song playlists I've made offline on the phone so I can play them in the car and not use data. They can also download to the watch on the Google one if you like, which is handy for walking.
Regarding downloading, is there a convenient way to download music to your computer nowadays, Napster style? Torrents are an option I guess but I would prefer song by song downloads as opposed to full albums.
I had started a thread on this before as I was looking for a certain selection of songs but the legit ones are far too expensive (around 99c a song), so I ended up converting Youtube files to mp3's.
I take it you mean free downloads, rather than the Spotify Premium option Giggles described above?
With the exception of a handful of artists refusing to have their music on it, Spotify has created an app that makes listening to music far simpler than messing around with torrenting sites or other illegitimate avenues. That just doesn't stand for Netflix and that's why I'm happy to pay a tenner for Spotify but not a fiver for TV streaming.
Pricing is tied to what music labels expect as minimum revenues from a service in return for licensing their catalogues. A tenner a month is fuck all really, considering you have access to every song in the universe near enough. You can save offline (around 3000 tracks) and swap them at will, if you don't want to use your data allowance. Just save them at home on wi-fi.
Pandora's a radio-like service, but will have a streaming service soon as they bought Rdio.
I find Spotify very good value - I would have spent more back in the old days of CD/iTunes buying anyway.
I think Pepe wants actual audio files. The disadvantage of something like Spotify is that there's no actual file so it can only be played through their interface, though something like that doesn't bother me personally as all my music is played from the phone or tablet through bluetooth devices or the chromecast audio.
Their interface is far superior to anything else I've used so I've never seen that as an issue.
Yeah it's excellent. I've just downloaded it to my phone again there in the last hour and it is so much nicer than the Google one. I see there's Cast support on it now too finally.
Do you want new music Pep? It's pretty rare these days I've found to only like one song on a record.
Not new music, old stuff. Also yes, I want audio files so that they can go in Ms. Pepe's iPod and yes, I want them for free.
Basically, bring back Limewire!
Doing the Youtube conversion is best regarding handiness and selection. If higher quality is more what you're after then the usual methods may do.Not new music, old stuff. Also yes, I want audio files so that they can go in Ms. Pepe's iPod and yes, I want them for free.
Basically, bring back Limewire!
Don't_look_back_in_anger_oasis_p1ss1ng_squ1rting_x xx_horse_sex_porn.mp3
Just download the full album and take the one song delete everything else.
I liked it when you'd get "[whatever you'd searched] cute girl has orgasm on webcam.avi" as the first hit for anything on limewire, and it was a 5kb exe file.
@Pepe, soulseek is excellent. Ridiculously comprehensive - I found the album my old fucking lodger made on there, not uploaded by him either. Barely any viruses or anything too.
I'd had a look at that after it was recommended when I'd asked (the name escaped me) and it looked really good.
Obviously Netflix isn't anywhere near as comprehensive as Spotify but I watch a lot more TV and films and it has a far superior interface to any illegal option. I've got Kodi now and I still go to Netflix first for films or TV. Plus it's like £6 a month, for the amount of TV and films I watch, that's very good value. Which brings me on to the point below.
A tenner isn't that much, no. Although its value is going to differ between someone working full-time in London and someone working part-time in the backwoods of Northern Ireland. But it also depends how much you actually listen to music. I don't all that much. Not enough to justify paying a tenner for. I'd probably use it on my phone on the train perhaps twice a week.
Some kind of cheaper, limited version (as in you can only stream, say, 2gb of music a month rather than the limitations they put on the free version now) would be good. Maybe 2gb would be too much, 1gb? I dunno. And let me save like 100 tracks offline. I'd pay a fiver a month for that.
I feared that would be the best option.
What is that exactly? Will check it out later.
I don't really like its interface. It's no easier to find what you want than to find relevant torrents, its discovery stuff is rubbish and its "new releases" sort of stuff usually has the same stuff for months on end. Spotify has done well on all that extra stuff so that it actually gives you something that downloading doesn't. Obviously it also helps that it has nearly all new releases and that downloading music is generally harder than downloading TV or films.
I just think video streaming channels still have some catching up to do. The fragmentation doesn't help either.
Netflix's interface fucks me off. Really hard to find anything worth watching.
I like the organisation of the genres and sub-genres. That's much better for browsing than browsing through heaps of shit on torrents. Even Kodi's browsing, which isn't bad, is a long way off it.
Also, the ease of it remembering where you are in a series or episode. I had to download the third season of The Bridge as they didn't have it and remembering what episode I'd last seen was a pain. Another thing - the reliability of subtitles on foreign shows and films. Downloading/streaming can be a bit of a pain for that.
Anyway, on to something else. I was in town earlier. I don't like the word 'chavs' much (thanks Owen Jones) but there's not really a better way to put it. Ballymena is full of fucking chavs. Or just generally awful, haggard people. I saw someone in Tesco who actually looked like Waynetta Slob.
Old school p2p thing like limewire or napster but actually good.
I'll be balls deep on that one tonight then.
That's because their catalogue is that shit that there's very little worth watching to actually find. Films especially.
Mostly true, yes.
The countless times we have decided to watch a movie only to call it off after fifteen minutes browsing the Netflix catalogue... Glad I have Kodi now.
My TV is arriving today btw. First time I own a TV in 8 years.
@Boydy - check out Amazon Prime Music - it's part of Amazon Prime (obviously). Smaller catalogue but comes with the benefits of quick delivery/Amazon Instant Video (their Netflix competitor). £79 a year.
Cheers but the other stuff isn't really much use to me.
Actually I remembered during lunch why I haven't downloaded shit for a while: Our ISP sends letters threatening to sue us when we do and they scare my GF. Guess soulseek is a no go.
My favorite letter was one we got for a couple of porn videos I downloaded (and a Madonna song, fuck know where that one came from.) Luckily the names were not too obviously porn and the .mp4 ending made her think they were music. I blamed it all on her colleague we hosted for a few days and left the episode unscathed but I must admit I was bricking it a bit, don't even know why.
Soulseek is great but it's like trying to use IRC these days. You know exactly how to do it but it's fucking tedious.
The collections of music some people have is amazing though. I'd search for a popular album and end up downloading about 6 mixtape b-sides.
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