Diasfora
General Category => Music => Topic started by: 8ullfrog on February 16, 2013, 11:13:20 PM
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A few years back I was listening to pandora and thinking it was the best poo since napster. It didn't take up space on my hard drive, and it was tunes for the background while I was shooting people in video games.
So I made an account, and like most accounts the first 30 days were magical. Everything worked great, nothing went wrong, I could skip songs that sucked or downvote them to oblivion.
About two months in, I hit their "free listen limit" which I believe was 20 hours total in a month.
I game pretty compulsively, so I hit that limit fairly early in the month. I didn't like this, so I contacted their support department to cancel my account. At first they tried to retain the account and tell me to just not use it, but I didn't want to be counted as part of their user base.
Their support department was surprisingly understanding, and closed my account as requested.
Since then, they have removed the limit. I signed back up, and am very happy with the current performance. I'll post back in this thread in march if things go shitsville.
I've yet to hear an ad, and the only limitation I've ran into is that they stop the music every once in a while to check if a human is actually listening. This is easy enough to fix between respawns, so it's a good choice for the gamer.
Plus, you decide the content unlike slacker. On slacker you're using a predefined set list made by a DJ. That's fine if you get a good DJ, but their dubstep DJ, "Party Ben" doesn't really seem to understand what he's doing.
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How have you not heard an ad???
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OH, it'll get em. Pandora certainly has adds, it just takes about 7 or 8 songs into a station.
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Necromancy power!
Nah, still no ads. Worst thing that happens is it asks if I'm still listening. Sucks in sims 3 because you can't alt tab from sims 3. Or shoot the repoman in the face.
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I find it loads like hell on the ps3.
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A music site I visit regularly began incorporating Last.fm into its features last December so I have been using that a lot lately. The recommendations are pretty well done and I have found some stuff that is pretty cool that I had not heard of until now. I like it, but I only started visiting right about the time streaming to a local media player was disabled so to use it I have to keep a browser tab open, which is no big deal really, but I would rather use my media player.
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Why not just compile playlists in iTunes or another media player and play those while you game? No ads, no interruptions, etc...
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Though I have yet to check out Pandora, a friend of mine back east swears by it.
I tend to listen to my CD collection which I've placed on SonicStage.
Slightly off topic... I used to tape stuff like mad and have hundreds of old compilation tapes--mixed from CD's, the radio, and other tapes. A few years ago I found a device which allows me to edit tapes onto CD's.
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Neat! I'm still missing my music. Hdd is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, I bought Florence and the machine's ceremonials on iTunes. Because its amazing. First music purchase since the nineties. Kinda proud. :D
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love florence and the machine when I first got their cd I listened to it none stop.
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I pick up a lot of CD's at goodwill, but I use Pandora to find new stuff.
I like having my music in hard copy.
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^ That's true. One massive solar electromagnetic pulse and we lose all of our digital stuff. lol
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well I'm pretty sure a CD player would be bent in that situation as well.
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Yep. But that would've complicated the gag! ;)
Best to keep a live band in your basement at all times.
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I suppose I could take up guitar. I've had one for years it's mostly gathered dust.
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^pfft. I would have used that sucker long ago. My stepdad let me keep his acoustic in my room for a year when I was growing up. I made a lot of noise.
I love Florence and the Machine too Mishca.
tarascon, I spend a ton of time recording off the radio and making my own radio shows as a kid. Still have a few of my oldest cassette tapes. I certainly have a plethora of VHS tapes.
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I had some good cassette compilations that I attempted to reconstruct on iTunes. It shouldn't be too hard, really.
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just got the notification of approaching my mobile limit. :(
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Email: "Pandora, extend my mobile limit for free. You monsters."
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I certainly have a plethora of VHS tapes.
I've found those have a shorter "shelf life" than cassette tapes.