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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/

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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

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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.

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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

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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.  

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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.

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