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Feb 14, 2014 4:36 PM
Anyone use this? It seems like a good deal if you buy a lot of music. Just wondering what the music selection is like?
Feb 14, 2014 4:36pm
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Feb 14, 2014 4:37 PM
I haven't really looked into it other than the commercials, but why would one use this over spotify? Spotify is cheaper and/or free if you can handle a commercial every 30 min. Plus they have pretty much most of the music I look for.
Feb 14, 2014 4:37pm
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Feb 14, 2014 5:13 PM
Commander of Awesome;1580838 wrote:I haven't really looked into it other than the commercials, but why would one use this over spotify? Spotify is cheaper and/or free if you can handle a commercial every 30 min. Plus they have pretty much most of the music I look for.
Spotify is only free on the computer, not on your phone. Plus, Beats is cheaper for the family plan option...unless of course you just give your login info to people to share it. But with Beats doing this, my thinking is that other streaming services will start to offer family plans and will not allow an account to be streaming on two devices at once.
Feb 14, 2014 5:13pm
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Feb 14, 2014 5:24 PM
Beats is the old MOG. MOG is fantastic - for about $4/mo you get high quality streams at 320 bit rates. The music selection may not be quite as good as other services (but I've only discovered a handful of top artists not available) but you can create playlists and play a song as often as you like.

The new Beats is going to be a little different. I think it's $10/mo, but believe that allows you to cache music for offline play (in other words, for $120 a year you can basically "own" whatever music and as much music as you want). There are some other tweaks that may or may not be beneficial, but the bottom line is for $10/mo you play what you want as often as you want.

I still like Pandora as a free service for discovery. Now due to bandwidth and storage space, maybe 320kps songs don't work for you, but that's generally considered cd-quality.
Feb 14, 2014 5:24pm
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Feb 14, 2014 5:31 PM
sherm03;1580846 wrote:Spotify is only free on the computer, not on your phone. Plus, Beats is cheaper for the family plan option...unless of course you just give your login info to people to share it. But with Beats doing this, my thinking is that other streaming services will start to offer family plans and will not allow an account to be streaming on two devices at once.
I stream spotify to my phone all the time without a premium account.
Feb 14, 2014 5:31pm
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Feb 14, 2014 5:39 PM
Commander of Awesome;1580851 wrote:I stream spotify to my phone all the time without a premium account.
Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.
Feb 14, 2014 5:39pm
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Feb 14, 2014 6:02 PM
Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.
Exactly. Streaming on demand is a premium only service. Which is what the Beats Music is offering. There's also unlimited skips on the radio when you are paying for the service (whether it's Spotify, Beats, Google Music, etc.). You don't get that when you are on the free option.
Feb 14, 2014 6:02pm
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Feb 14, 2014 6:20 PM
Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.
Ah maybe, I just stream my starred list.
Feb 14, 2014 6:20pm
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Feb 14, 2014 6:59 PM
se-alum;1580836 wrote:Anyone use this? It seems like a good deal if you buy a lot of music. Just wondering what the music selection is like?
It's just a Spotify/Google Music clone.

I use Google Music and really like it
Feb 14, 2014 6:59pm
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Feb 14, 2014 7:03 PM
dlazz;1580874 wrote:It's just a Spotify/Google Music clone.

I use Google Music and really like it
Actually Google Music is the late comer. This is just re-branding MOG - Beats bought them and is "shuttering" the MOG service.
Feb 14, 2014 7:03pm
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Feb 14, 2014 7:39 PM
gut;1580877 wrote:Actually Google Music is the late comer. This is just re-branding MOG - Beats bought them and is "shuttering" the MOG service.
I figured some smartass would come along and say this, but was too lazy to edit my post. What I was moreso implying they're all very comparable.
Feb 14, 2014 7:39pm
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Feb 14, 2014 7:44 PM
dlazz;1580888 wrote:I figured some smartass would come along and say this, but was too lazy to edit my post. What I was moreso implying they're all very comparable.
Haven't explored Google Music since they added the subscription streaming service. Sure, they are all comparable but I thought MOG was the best value at $4 per month (computer only), play what you want in high quality. Maybe that's why they got bought out, and apparently their smarpthone apps were garbage.
Feb 14, 2014 7:44pm
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Feb 15, 2014 9:10 AM
Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.


You can now shuffle an artist or listen to a playlist for free on spotify mobile.
Feb 15, 2014 9:10am