sake
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Well, there's the basic principal of supporting what you want to see survive...:scratch2:
Mog shut down April 15. Where will you go?
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Well, there's the basic principal of supporting what you want to see survive...:scratch2:
tomlinmgt
Lunatic Member
uofmtiger
Addicted Member
Pretty much all tech has people that could care less about it. If he doesn't hear a difference and doesn't care for albums, then Pandora seems perfect for him.
Since I got Mog, I rarely listen to Pandora. Mog is just as good as Pandora in discovering music and actually has a better way to do that with their radio slider. It also sounds much better than Pandora to me. The services will cut you back if you don't have the bandwidth to support their "hi rez" stream, so that may be an issue for some.
If I want to hear all Dylan or any artist on MOG all the time, I can. If I want to listen to Dylan (or any artist) with an incremental increase in other artists that I can decide, I have that option as well. It really works perfectly for my needs.
I could care less about the sharing features. I don't need my friends knowing what I am listening to every hour of the day. However, there are obviously a lot of companies touting this as a benefit.
I am working with Spotify, but I prefer MOG. :sigh:
Since I got Mog, I rarely listen to Pandora. Mog is just as good as Pandora in discovering music and actually has a better way to do that with their radio slider. It also sounds much better than Pandora to me. The services will cut you back if you don't have the bandwidth to support their "hi rez" stream, so that may be an issue for some.
If I want to hear all Dylan or any artist on MOG all the time, I can. If I want to listen to Dylan (or any artist) with an incremental increase in other artists that I can decide, I have that option as well. It really works perfectly for my needs.
I could care less about the sharing features. I don't need my friends knowing what I am listening to every hour of the day. However, there are obviously a lot of companies touting this as a benefit.
I am working with Spotify, but I prefer MOG. :sigh:
Vistance
Super Member
I don't, but I also don't have ads everywhere that generate revenue for me either. It's the same idea behind YouTube videos, they're free to watch but they generate the people who make them money (based on views). Lots of these online services don't directly get paid, but make their revenue from advertisement. The alternative is to not get advertisements, and pay for the monthly fee. Either way they make their money, and the idea with the latter is that the ads are so annoying to you that you'll pony up the extra cash to be rid of them.
I'm not faulting anyone for paying for these services, just to me I don't see the point. I'm not going to start feeling bad for these companies as though they are a struggling artist who needs support to keep doing what they're doing. Pandora for example, has next to nil risk of going anywhere in the near future.
lico
Super Member
Looks like Google got its act together, by partnering with Sonos. It would appear that Sonos makes a lot of sense, after all, to Google and millions of others.
Yes, it's good news for Google, since they realize they can sell Play music to millions of Sonos users who don't mind overpaying for something like an overpriced Sonos box already.
lico
Super Member
That or just hook it up to a TV and use the audio out or coax digital out from the TV as input to a stereo. But some folks still think it's just for listening to music on TV speakers....
uofmtiger
Addicted Member
I wanted to mention that I saw an article the other day that RDIO is moving to 320K AAC files. That will give people that care about sound quality even more choice.
I can't tell exactly when this change will take place, but I may send them an email when MOG goes under. I haven't been in love with Spotify, so Rdio may be a better option for me.
I can't tell exactly when this change will take place, but I may send them an email when MOG goes under. I haven't been in love with Spotify, so Rdio may be a better option for me.
Condorsat
Audio Enthusiast
Now that's some interesting news ... I love RDIO PC user interface ... but not the sound.
chicks
Lunatic Member
Thanks, will give them a try. $10/month, 20 million songs, should have basically the same catalog everyone else has. Hope they have some sort of radio emulation...
+48V
hi-fi or die
They do indeed.
You can create "radio stations" based upon an artist, your collection, others' collections, record label, and a multitude of standard genres. From there you can tweak/massage the station to varying degrees (5) of adherence to the source....from strict to adventurous. It does an admirable job (frankly far better than Pandora IMO) as far as discovery.
RDIO's clear cut & clutter free UI on both the desktop and mobile platforms makes all aspects (particularly radio) of their service extremely effortless and tremendously valuable. The record label station feature is quite handy & fun.
Access Cost--
$5/mo. PC
$10/mo. Everything else (their phone/tablet app can be used as a remote control)
[footnote] Since Spotify acquired EchoNest (music mix algorithm engine) a few months ago it's unclear who/what rdio will use once their contract with them expires. EchoNest is pretty dang good...so my fangers is crossed that 'the new guy" doesn't botch things up on that front.
chicks
Lunatic Member
I tried the free version on my work PC. Nice clean interface. However, I tried finding several '50s jazz albums that were all available on GPMAA, none of them showed up. Linking to them from allmusic.com, which showed all of them available in Rdio, resulted in grayed out boxes, with a "not available in your region" message, or something similar. So, despite claiming a huge catalog, none of the first (somewhat obscure) albums I searched for were actually available. Will try some more over the next few days.
+48V
hi-fi or die
I'm confident these service's "huge" claims are valid. I can pick cherries all day long across all the services. Due to the individual licensing requirements placed upon on-demand music services; it's pretty common to find "holes" in one catalog vs. another-->Despite each have the same (20M) sized library.
One service may have more of what appeals to you in their library. But it's a moving target. What one has today may be gone tomorrow and visa-versa.
Sadly and conveniently it's just where the business is right now and the foreseeable future. Choosing one over another based upon content (however pigeonholed) can be rectified quite easily (if it's worth that much to you) thanks to our month to month "contracts" with said services.
To each his own for validating and picking a ship. For me and my musically eclectic soul...ease of use and functionality trump all. rdio wins bigtime right now.
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cubdog
banging through drywall
jlc76
Well-Known Member
Exactly, I've already been using Spotify in anticipation of the demise of MOG. My wife really hates it because she knows how to use MOG on her phone (both in the car and on her Bose bluetooth speaker) and on the Squeezebox Touch and really loves the interface better.
Did they say if they ever came out with a desktop version? I used to like to listen to MOG at work on the computer, I don't have any mobile devices except a wifi only tablet I use around the house.
chicks
Lunatic Member
No word on that, but I expect they'll stick with the browser-based version - far easier for them to support and update. PC sales have fallen off a cliff over the past couple of years.
I use my wifi only tablet as the remote control for my Sonos system, no PC required. My problem is too many choices; have to decide between Beats, Spotify, Google, Rdio, Pandora One, probably a few others.
So far, Google has my interest, but have been trying Rdio as well (free version on work PC, no free trial for Sonos, unfortunately). I think either one has the ability to replace both MOG and Pandora One. The Sonos version of Google is missing the Rovi album / artist reviews that MOG has. If Rdio has them, would be a big plus for them.