Each one of us loves music and we use more than one application to create, discover, listen, organize and share music. Which ones do you use? Are you satisfied?
I use Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, and iTunes, and no, I'm not satisfied. I'd like to see a cloud music service that finally gets it right. Completely right. I had high hopes for Google Music, but their interface is lacking and their features aren't rolling out quickly enough.
Pandora has the best auto-track selection, but that should be expected, it's their core service.
Spotify is nice in that I can upload and sync my local library, but I have to pay a premium to stream to my iphone. No deal, Spotify.
Grooveshark is great, although their auto-track selection in Radio Mode can't compare to Pandora. Downside, App store won't let me Groove on my iphone.
Finally, iTunes would swoop in FTW if it weren't for all the DRM BS. I can't even migrate my music to another laptop without a 3 hour iTunes fight. Plus, syncing takes forever. Apple needs to step up their cloud music game.
I'm interested to hear about your hopes for Google music, and the kind of features you are/would be expecting. I'm asking because currently working on a similar service :)
I use last.fm for discovering and listening to music.
I also like grooveshark if I want to listen something specific and share tracks on social media.
I don't really organize music because I don't have time for it. But I do have an old iTunes collection that needs organizing and there is no proper tool out there to clean the collection up automatically. I tried tuneup but it doesn't really work well and the software is not very robust or fast.
Regarding creating music - I'd love to see more comments about that here - most of the above comments are about listening to music :-) what about music creation?
Personally i grew up playing the piano but then dropped it after years of suffering and starting using hardware and software for semi-pro music production .. and eventually became a developer of hardware/software for music making :-)
I am very happy with how easy it is to use and don't think about using anything else to listen to music. The only thing I think it needs improvement in is discovery. I have listened to the same tracks probably 100 times each at least. I don't know how/where to find more good music, nor do I have the time to spend a lot of time researching and finding.
I was using spotify this summer at my internship but I have recently switch to just turntable. I have been able to find much more music there then from any other place so far.
[+] [-] Bishop6|14 years ago|reply
Pandora has the best auto-track selection, but that should be expected, it's their core service.
Spotify is nice in that I can upload and sync my local library, but I have to pay a premium to stream to my iphone. No deal, Spotify.
Grooveshark is great, although their auto-track selection in Radio Mode can't compare to Pandora. Downside, App store won't let me Groove on my iphone.
Finally, iTunes would swoop in FTW if it weren't for all the DRM BS. I can't even migrate my music to another laptop without a 3 hour iTunes fight. Plus, syncing takes forever. Apple needs to step up their cloud music game.
[+] [-] chetane07|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] bschiett|14 years ago|reply
I don't really organize music because I don't have time for it. But I do have an old iTunes collection that needs organizing and there is no proper tool out there to clean the collection up automatically. I tried tuneup but it doesn't really work well and the software is not very robust or fast.
Regarding creating music - I'd love to see more comments about that here - most of the above comments are about listening to music :-) what about music creation?
Personally i grew up playing the piano but then dropped it after years of suffering and starting using hardware and software for semi-pro music production .. and eventually became a developer of hardware/software for music making :-)
[+] [-] ohashi|14 years ago|reply
I am very happy with how easy it is to use and don't think about using anything else to listen to music. The only thing I think it needs improvement in is discovery. I have listened to the same tracks probably 100 times each at least. I don't know how/where to find more good music, nor do I have the time to spend a lot of time researching and finding.
[+] [-] EgeBamyasi|14 years ago|reply
http://rateyourmusic.com/
To listen to my finds I use spotify, youtube and blogspots and if I can I tend to buy the stuff I like on vinyl/CD.
[+] [-] adrianwaj|14 years ago|reply
of interest (php only so far): http://cashmusic.org/ "builds open source digital tools for musicians and labels"
[+] [-] danest|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] WalterGR|14 years ago|reply
I'm satisfied with a big exception: Rhapsody has lost my music library a few times. That's pretty unforgivable.
[+] [-] litmus|14 years ago|reply
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