Anyone nab a Spotify? It's an awesome music streaming service. Also, maybe this could be a little G+ - Spotify trade off thread. Like someone has a G+ and not a Spotify and someone has a Spotify but not a G+. Also, if anyone could confirm the Spotify Android app working on the Nook (I can't test, my Nook is not with me).
There is an easy workaround at Gizmodo on how to get around the lack of an invite. You basically use a proxy to fool the UK spotify site into signing you up for.a free account and then you switch back to US and edit your profile. All the steps are easy to follow.
BTW, spotify itself invites new users, not the new users themselves (Ala Google+)
I took a look at Spotify earlier today. Maybe I'm missing it, but what's everyone so excited about? It looks like Pandora/Slacker mixed with a dash of Google Music for good measure.
The G+ streams are all atwitter about Spotify tonight.
$10/mo for mobile app use makes it DOA for me.
I'd do the free service or maybe the $5/mo if it had mobile app support, but I'm not even going to bother for $10/mo.
The main "advantage" of spotify seems to be the ability to offload the music for when you don't have wifi and the ability to stream your own music from your PC. Since the NC doesn't have 3G, the mobile app isn't really all that limited with the free service except when you are somebody else's wifi.
I haven't messed with it too much but I wonder if you set up a VPN back to your home network whether you can stream that way.
I do like the way you can make playlists for streaming.
Been using spotify since it was released in sweden 3-4 years ago. It's awesome in every way. Completely replaces any kind of illegal and legal way of getting music. If only a similar service of the same quality would come for movies and series...
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Right. The only problem is that I have a Free account and no upgrading for me..
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Does anyone know of any "all-you-can-eat" music subscription service that will successfully stream to a WM6 device?
I have a subscription with Rhapsody. There are two ways to use it: with their software client installed on your desktop harddrive, or stream directly from their website. However, if you stream from their website, it installs a very small player app on your harddrive. If you try to stream from their website on a mobile device, it brings up an error saying that the player app must be installed and can only be installed on XP/2000, etc. And there is no mobile Rhapsody client available, in fact, no mention of one even in the works from Rhapsody.
As far as other services go, for a short time last year I used AOL Music and it was able to stream b/c their streams used WMP. I was so excited... I paid the normal 10 bucks a month and could listen to any song, any time, any where on my phone as long as I had a data connection. Unfortunately, AOL music subscription service shutdown late last year.
As for the other guys, Napster, Urge, and Yahoo all either use their own players or their own clients, so none of them work on mobile phones.
Any suggestions? Any of you genius-smart app writers out there think you could come up with something that could stream any of these services?
I'm listening to sirius right now on my tilt. It uses tcpmp. go ask the guys at geekstoolbox.com and maybe they can throw something together real quick for ya. they're working on an all in one right now i think
Hey thanks for the info kireol. Yeah I listen to XM and Sirius on my phone as well. Great feature. I'm looking to get a subscription service going as well.
Thanks for the site suggestion... going to check it out now.
Looks like geekstoolbox is geared mainly toward smartphones and Sirius. They're hard at work on their latest project which appears to be a complete overhaul to their Sirius software, but it's only going to add XM and internet radio stations. Don't think they'll be doing anything related to subscription services (outside of satellite radio) anytime soon.
Any other thoughts about how to get a subscription service to stream? Alternatively, have you looked at trying to get Pandora to stream to a WM device?
AT&T Tilt
Samsung Blackjack
AT&T 3125
The Nokia 810 has a mobile rhapsody client, and that also runs on an arm processor. I am sure a concerted effort could be made to port that code to WM, but I dont think there are enough rhapsody subscribers to care.
Surur
Add one to the "I care" list. I also have a Rhapsody To-Go membership & I would love to be able to take advantage of that on my Tilt.
Any progress?
Any progress?
Mundu Radio
So far I tried Resco Radio, XM and Sirius. And lately Mundu Radio. The best so far, and BTW it is free, is the Mundu Radio. You can download the Cab file from the following link:
http://radio.mundu.com/download/download.php
Enjoy.....
Has anyone got this? Or tried it out?
I've been trying it for the last couple of days and it's opened my eyes to the world of PodCasts! I've subscribed to 26 feeds, some of which are simply RSS, and some of which are "proper" PodCasts. It's awesome. Automatically downloading PodCasts over my WiFi connection, and then letting me play them back using the Smart Playlist option is amazing. Anyone got any hints or tips, or any recommended PodCasts?
James
Podcasts
Anything from the Twit network and "Are We Alone", the Seti podcast, are great.
I've been using BeyondPod on Windows Mobile and have purchased it on Android.
Are you using the scheduled updates ? Mine is set to check and download updates at 5am every day, so I have fresh podcasts ready for me when I get up.
For all the fuss about the new Doggcatcher app and it being a features app in the market, I find BeyondPod a much better app.
Thanks!
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I was considering looknig at Doggcatcher, but it seems a bit redundant really as BeyondPod seems to do everything I want it to
Hi Im new at android but beyondpod is a must have.
Is Beyondcheduler a seperate app?
How do I set it to download at 5am? The instructions here don't match my menu's -
http://www.allshadow.com/2008/08/04/beyondpod-goes-above/
I'm looking for an app to stream music. But I can't seem to find anything that works. Like I want to be able to stream for say something like, Edge 102.1 (Toronto). Or something similar and free to XM Radio.
I use Pandora and I love it. It's sort of... genre-based internet radio. I do have force closes once in a while when switching channels a lot but the app is worth it to me.
Edit: Does not pull in AM/FM if that is strictly what you're looking for. You search for a band you like and it will play similar music to the band you chose. Each search creates a "channel" you can switch between.
Hmm. Pandora sounds great and I've heard a lot about it. But, I can't seem to download it in Canada Any suggestions on how to get it or other apps?
you can try iheartradio but i had problems with it not streaming very good
Such a bummer that the markets are not the same across countries. Since it's a free app I think I could post it to the forums without it being warez, right?
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Such a bummer that the markets are not the same across countries. Since it's a free app I think I could post it to the forums without it being warez, right?
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I hope so lol
here it is
for future reference, check out market enabler to unlock the market. i've never used it though so i'm not sure if it works.
edit: these are both free apps but if a mod feels like i shouldnt post these, please delete this post
I use an app called AOnlineRadio, it's free in the marketplace. Only plays shoutcast-style streams, but has directory and search functions. Doesn't seem to support Ogg, afaik.
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Doesnt last.fm do the same thing? maybe that will work
Awww. Pandora won't work in my country it says (Canada).
I'm trying to use Last.fm in my browser, so I'm on the mobile site, but I can't seem to play any music. I don't see any option to play song or anything.
search the market for last.fm, but I bet it won't work in the great white north either. You could try Slacker, and there is another that I know works in europe but requires a subscription and I can't for the life of me remember it's name, sorry - 5 AM here.
Pandora and Slacker are US-only due to licensing restrictions by the recording industry. I'm not sure about last.fm since audioscrobbler was pretty popular years ago even in Europe.
You could try some of the shoutcast streaming apps or maybe do a market search for "<country> radio". There may even be something available for Canadians that we don't have in the US market.
I just found one and it's great: "A Online Radio"
It's streaming though, so you'll probably want 3G I'd imagine. (USA here)
I just really want a good streamer to use in Canada since I have 6GB and I'm not using it all up. Bluetooth streaming to my car stereo would be a nice replacement to my actual radio.
i use stream furious
works pretty fine for me (in austria)
there where even the radiostations installed that i downloaded it for. and you can add them yourself too
OK so Google Music Beta is out and a lot of people are getting burned by fake invite offers.
1. Go to music.google.com and login using your Google account and ask for an invite.
2. Wait..... took me about 5-6 hours to recieve an invite from Google.
3. Be sure to pick some genres you like and select "add free music" Google actually gives you some very decent music to listen to for free.
4. Download the music manager to your laptop or desktop and install.
5. Choose which folder you want Google Music to sync with. This was My Music on my laptop may be different for you. Also I set it up to automatically sync anytime I add new music to the folder.
6. Be patient as your music is synced with your Google Music account. This can take a long time depending on amount of music and upload speeds.
7 If you have a large collection you may want to copy a portion of your music to another folder so it doesnt take hours to sync and slowly move your whole collection in chuncks rather than one huge sync.
8. Go to market and download Music by Google. Music should automaticlly log in on your phone and you will see your music collection ready listen.
If you are still syncing then certain music wont be there but, if you selected the free music, check out some bands you havent heard before.
Google Music is a great way to have a huge collection of music with you wherever you go without taking up space on your phone or lugging usb drives, ipods or whatever around. Your music can be accessed from any android device or desktop/laptop that has internet service. Not only that you can make tracks available offline! If you know you are going somewhere with no data.... make some songs offline. They will be able to be played whether you have a connection or not. How cool is that?
So far the only problem I have found is when on shuffle some songs dont skip to next track which isnt a big deal for me and im sure will be fixed in an update.
I recommend everyone go ask Google for an invite soon before they stop handing them out and before the service goes paid. You never know, they might just let us beta testers use it for free indefinitely.
DO NOT ASK ANYONE BUT GOOGLE FOR AN INVITE ANYONE SAYING THEY HAVE INVITES TO HAND OUT IS PHISHING FOR EMAILS TO SPAM.
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Also just an FYI for when you Put the client on your PC or Laptop. If you let it stay running 24/7 when it goes to sync it will Slow your internet down like you are Downloading a Torrent. Which for me is unacceptable considering I have Cable Internet and no way should that slow me down that bad but either way just thought I would let yall know that in advance.
Being nice, I have 8 invites left. If anyone is interested, I will send a few. PM me your email address.
I went to site to Google site u posted at it works thanx
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Anyone having issues with this running on the Thrill?? It never works. Everything works up to the streamimg part then it just continues to swirl forevr then it says it failed. Any ideas??
I already tried deleting the devices from the website. Didnt work. Works just fine on my Atrix though.
It works great on my Thrill. It worked great on the Thrill I had before this one. ON the last Thrill, I had to occassionally make sure sync was on but no problems other than that and that was only twice when I had to reclick the sync button.
I'm really enjoying google music as it's cleared a ton of space and I don't have to worry about my sd card being corrupted and losing music.
For me it's always worked quickly and with very few hesitations.
Just got my invite... took three days... lol gonna try it now...
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I love having lots of music on the go!
Right and its nice to not have to rely or use your own data connection at home to stream the music like orb or vlc.
Hello Folks,
I am trying to find a way of keeping most of music available to me across my devices,
Android Tablet (Nexus7)
Android Phone (MotoX)
Various PC's
I have messed with Google Music and something about the interface doesn't do it for me.
MyMusicCloud is limited to 250 songs and other cloud services like Skydrive don't offer streaming services but just storage.
The idea is to stream, not really download to play, ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.
Pete
I used subsonic server for over a year. Works insanely well if you are willing to run a server from your PC. they're are raspberry pi solutions as well. Also, some use Plex, instead. Both are great options. As for cloud services, you can pretty much do Google music or amazon. Google gives you 20k songs free. Amazon gives you an unprecedented 250k songs for $25 a year.
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pasta1234 said:
Hello Folks,
I am trying to find a way of keeping most of music available to me across my devices,
Android Tablet (Nexus7)
Android Phone (MotoX)
Various PC's
I have messed with Google Music and something about the interface doesn't do it for me.
MyMusicCloud is limited to 250 songs and other cloud services like Skydrive don't offer streaming services but just storage.
The idea is to stream, not really download to play, ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.
Pete
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Just a heads up that if you are not into the Google Music app, you can now use third party software as the interface, but still use Google Music for its free storage capacity. I saw the article somewhere on this site, I will take a look for it.
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JustROLLIN said:
Just a heads up that if you are not into the Google Music app, you can now use third party software as the interface, but still use Google Music for its free storage capacity. I saw the article somewhere on this site, I will take a look for it.
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Boom!
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...cloud-streaming-to-third-party-music-players/
This should solve all your problems.
metaljr81 said:
I used subsonic server for over a year. Works insanely well if you are willing to run a server from your PC.
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I used Subsonic for a while too, seemed to work well. As mentioned, you need an always on computer if you want access whenever. I remember it being a little tedious to set up. Subsonic also lets you stream video files, pretty neat, worked alright. I stopped using it when I discovered that my home Comcast internet usage was over the 200GB limit one month, but I can't verify it was Subsonic or something else on my network... I'm tempted to try Subsonic again, seems silly to upload my music to Google's server when I could just stream from home, provided your upload is fast enough and you have a static IP or DDNS.
I've had good luck with Cloudaround. The free version lets you stream from dropbox, and the paid version uses Box, GoogleDrive, Skydrive and others, as well as your local files.
I have used Amazon MP3 with good luck
I appreciate everyone's suggestions...
I guess one of my large pet peeves with Google Music is its inability to sync music to a folder, unless I am not seeing it.
When i use there music manager software and direct it a folder path it just copies everything over, if a file is deleted or renamed it does nothing, its not truly a sync piece of software, any work arounds ?
Pete