January 21, 201412 yr And spotify recently removed time limits from their free offering - still ads though http://mashable.com/2013/12/11/spotify-free-faq/ https://www.spotify.com/us/free/ Begun the streaming wars has! http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2014/01/21/beats-punches-spotify-counters-let-the-streaming-wars-begin/
January 21, 201412 yr Will MOG allow you to export all that "value" you added to their system for you .... A lesson for relying on any "closed" service. what's your music listening continuity plan for when they wink out of existence?Though to be fair there is no real open service to rely on for the other 95+% of MOGs value either. Anyone know if there's anything similar to the below for moving between services?http://resp.in/ Edited January 21, 201412 yr by blessingx
January 21, 201412 yr According to this, 320 kbps streaming is only for premium customers. https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/What-bitrate-does-Spotify-use-for-streaming You also have to be a premium member to use it with SB Touch. https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/Logitech Edited January 21, 201412 yr by shellylh
January 22, 201412 yr Author At least Beats claims they'll still stream at 320 Kbps. But the cringe factor touching an app that says "Beats" Ouch. And then there's the Squeeze box issue. Does anybody know if Spotify is actually delivering the claimed stream rate? They weren't early on.
January 22, 201412 yr Shelly, it doesn't help your SB need, but just saw Rdio has a 50% off price for those with an .edu address. Gets you back to $4.99 for streaming across most platforms, including mobile. That said the bitrates are unknown. Edited January 22, 201412 yr by blessingx
January 23, 201412 yr Author If anybody wants a giggle, go read the Beats Music app reviews on the Play Store. Health care.gov meets the final days of Singlepower. Oops.
January 23, 201412 yr Ugh, the first Beats reviews on each... App Store: "MOG users will be disappointed."Play Store: "If you love MOG you will hate this."
January 23, 201412 yr Shelly, it doesn't help your SB need, but just saw Rdio has a 50% off price for those with an .edu address. Gets you back to $4.99 for streaming across most platforms, including mobile. That said the bitrates are unknown. Thanks, I'll look into it.
January 24, 201412 yr For what it's worth.... Hey MOG Listeners, We owe you an update. We wanted to give you more details and clarification about what you can expect over the next few months. If you’d like to try Beats Music, please sign up for a free trial and check it out. You don’t have to wait until we send you the free month code – you can add that credit to an existing Beats Music account in March. We wanted to allow as many of you as possible to take advantage of the AT&T offer first.We’re also building a playlist transfer tool so you can bring your playlists over from MOG to Beats Music. Favorites will not transfer because Beats Music’s feature “My Library” works a bit differently. We wanted to take a moment to highlight how Beats Music has incorporated some of the best features of MOG. The 320kbps high quality audio streams across platforms, competitive 20+ million track catalog available to search-and-play on-demand, and killer personalized recommendations are still essential to the new music experience we’ve built. New releases are also available on Beats Music, but now we divide them up so you can browse by genre — we got this feedback from you back in the MOG days, so we hope you like this change. You can browse them by genre from the “Find It” section. “The Sentence” is a powerful way to create a practically never-ending radio station based on your chosen mood and the genre you’d like to hear. We think it’s a big improvement on artist radio. Also, artist radio fans please check out the “Intro to…” and “Deep Cuts” playlists for artists instead. We’ve found them to be just like human-curated artist stations. More to come! Lastly — we really want to highlight our expert curation. Please check out our playlists. They’re really, really good. “Find It” and “Just For You” are two great places to start. Like we said before, MOG will shut down on 4/15/14. Thank you for being a part of it, and thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback over the last few weeks. Seriously. We are humbled by how much you care and we hope this makes the transition easier. Ian
January 29, 201412 yr Author Notice the here to fore unspoken reference to a free month of the new service. Nice of them to mention that. Assuming they can actually make the app work, of course.
January 31, 201412 yr So it's obviously more Pandora-like than MOG, but been using iTunes Radio a bunch since its launched and it's a lot of fun. Some have done bitrate analysis. Considering the $25 Match to remove commercials (and backup). This post probably doesn't mean much, but I can say creating the following stations produces some nice music. Ike Quebec & Lester Young Art Tatum, Dave Brubeck & Bill Evans Johnny Hartman & Nat King Cole Giving Songza a try next.
January 31, 201412 yr Moss reviews MOG. Berg reviews Beats. http://recode.net/2014/01/21/beats-music-streams-with-a-human-touch/ video: http://videos.videopress.com/wqRfYZjB/recode_waltreview_beatsmusic_hd.mp4 Worth a glance just to see the UI.
April 1, 201412 yr Author Today I got an email that said they were going to slip the shut down date for MOG. Didn't say by how long. Very odd/interesting.
April 2, 201412 yr Author Apple Buys Beats The streaming music service, not the headphones. I just noticed that in the first post in this thread I mourn the demise of Lala at Apple's hands. Now this weirdness. Lefsetz has the story, with his usual mix of brilliance and bullshit on display: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/
April 2, 201412 yr Author Could well be. Google comes up with stories about Apple wanting a streaming on demand service, but nothing about any deal. The bullshit portion of that Lefsetz post is a little thicker than normal.
April 2, 201412 yr It got me yesterday too. I woke up, read the email, and it was plausible enough. Then I searched around a little later, and realized what day it was.
April 4, 201412 yr Author It doesn't look like he got any traction on the internet with it. That must be ego-crushing. But it's lucky for him, really. If he had moved a stock price I can assure from experience that the consequences could be really, really bad. Forget the SEC flapping its gums. We're talking being perma-banned by the Google bots! That'd suck, ego-wise. (It almost happened to our entire company over something that was a complete accident on our part. That would have been considerably worse than a blow to the ego.) I did find one hip-hop blogger who, a couple months ago, cited an unnamed source who claimed that there were negotiations.
April 30, 201412 yr Rdio is moving to 320 AAC - http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/29/rdio-improved-audio-quality/?ncid=rss_truncatedInsane video - http://www.cnbc.com/id/101614359 - but you may be already seeing the Pono-effect in play. Edited April 30, 201412 yr by blessingx
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