Big Changes for Amazon Cloud

[kennyc]

Man! This monkey is on top of the clouds!

Thanks monk!

[kennyc]

I use tune-in radio on all my devices which let's me access local or world stations with my presets. Love it, but it does use bandwidth when not in wifi range.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I haven't tried Pandora but I don't listen to rock stations. I'd rather shuffle my own music.

Give Pandora a shot. It's free and you can program any mix you like. I have stations for hard rock, grunge, alternative, classic rock, oldies, classical, soft rock, etc. Just type in the name of a group or artist and that station plays nothing but music similar to the artist you chose.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I haven't tried Pandora but I don't listen to rock stations. I'd rather shuffle my own music.

Don't really listen to any top-40 stations (rock, country, indie), but I've fallen in love with Spotify. It isn't free, but it's easy to set up your own stations around a favorite track or genre.

As far as the cloud, I've got nothing up there but what I've purchased. I've got a 16G Walkman that I rotate music through when I'm not listening to Spotify.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Don't really listen to any top-40 stations (rock, country, indie), but I've fallen in love with Spotify. It isn't free, but it's easy to set up your own stations around a favorite track or genre.

As far as the cloud, I've got nothing up there but what I've purchased. I've got a 16G Walkman that I rotate music through when I'm not listening to Spotify.

I did try Spotify as some Facebook friends use it. However, I couldn't figure it out. Maybe I'm getting old or it doesn't work with Android (my only personal computer is my Android tablet). I couldn't figure out Pintrest, either. A 16G Walkman would keep me going for a long time! I love my 4G Walkman. It is a tough little device and gives great sound.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Give Pandora a shot. It's free and you can program any mix you like.

It's only free if you're willing to see ads, right? I haven't tried it in a while but what little I did drove me crazy.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

That's what I've been using it for, only those cd's purchased from Amazon ... e.g. free. I copy non-amazon cd's to my phone and tablet as needed, but most of my purchases for the past many years are from Amazon anyway.

I hear ya. My Amazon stuff is mostly free to, thanks to $1 and $2 MP3 credits. I've been using them to build up my classical music library by getting albums with 99 and 100 song collections.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

It's only free if you're willing to see ads, right? I haven't tried it in a while but what little I did drove me crazy.

The ads and 6 skips per hour limit don't bother me. Otherwise, I'd pay the $36 per year to eliminate them. Even with ads, I hear more music per hour than I do on FM radio; plus I get to hear the music I want to hear.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Man! This monkey is on top of the clouds!

Thanks monk!

Unlike the Stones, I share my cloud

[Duze]

Right now I have over 5500 songs on my google music account.

For my portable player, I have a cheap android pre paid phone I bought while it was on sale a few months back. While near a wifi hotsphot, I have access to my complete library, and with the 16gb sd card I have in it, I can store a lot of music that I can listen to while I do not have a wifi connection. Also since its an android device, I can use it for a lot of other things.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Don't really listen to any top-40 stations (rock, country, indie), but I've fallen in love with Spotify. It isn't free, but it's easy to set up your own stations around a favorite track or genre.

They have a free ad version, just like Pandora. I'd try it, but it requires a Facebook account to register; and I hate Facebook!

[rdjack21]

Personally I just run my own server (SubSonic) no storage limits no third party monitoring what I listen to and no adds. Oh SubSonic also has clients for Android, IOS, Web. I've also found a couple of data store servers as well that I'm looking into so should have that part covered as well pretty soon. The only thing I don't have yet is a EBook server setup but that will be coming pretty soon as well in the form a calibre server once I figure out how to set alternate ports and SSL for the server.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I use tune-in radio on all my devices which let's me access local or world stations with my presets. Love it, but it does use bandwidth when not in wifi range.

I do TuneIn Radio also. I have the Pro version on my Galaxy Player thanks to Amazon's free app of the day. Great service.

[tubemonkey]

With many major players ditching flash and card slots, they're trying to force us into the cloud before it's even ready.

The cloud won't be viable for portable devices until wifi is universally available.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

With many major players ditching flash and card slots, they're trying to force us into the cloud before it's even ready.

The cloud won't be viable for portable devices until wifi is universally available.

Yeah, the only reason I took to it so well was that my phone has an unlimited data plan with Sprint, I think the last company to really have unlimited. Even so, sometimes I don't get a good enough 3G connection to stream smoothly.