Nokia Mix Radio+ for me please! Even the free version.. but subscribe to the paid "plus" version and it's only $3.99 /mo. compared to Xbox Music's subscription only service at $9.99 /mo. As much as I love and support Microsoft and their products, the "Xbox music pass" is one thing that I can't stand... and never quite understood (maybe if I had an Xbox 360 or Xbox One gaming console, I'd see things differently... but I've been a PC gamer since the DOS days, so I don't). I tried the "Xbox music pass free trial for a month" thing, and promptly cancelled it (which btw, is tricky to do... seems like they don't want you to easily find the "cancel auto-renew" button.) as I was not impressed at all.
I have a very large collection of music and I'm sorry, but I'm not paying $9.99 a month to listen to music that I already own. The only reason I subscribed to Nokia Mix Radio + is for their streaming music service (like Pandora) to find and discover new music/artists where you enter 1-3 artists and the service finds similar music/artists in the genre. I find Nokia Mix Radio + to be the best at this... even better than Pandora or Spotify! And being a $3.99 a month subscriber gets you unlimited skips, Zero ads, High quality audio, more offline saved mixes, etc. Oh and the Windows 8 version of the app is awesome! I have it on my Surface 2 and use nothing else for music.
Oh and mix seems to play every group except the ones in that mix lol
could you please explain what is the free version ? I got 3 months unlimited downloads with my new phone and its over now, and i cant even play me, or play any mixes. I'm still wondering what is free if clicking on play me tells me to pay for a subscription which still had limited skips... Explain ?
If I had to choose one over the other I'd go with Xbox Music. I like being able to download as many tracks and albums as I want.
To me, Xbox Music and Mixradio (free version) are the ultimate package though. I use Mixradio when I want to discover new music and when I hear something I like I download it through Xbox Music.
Perfect combination.
Then again, some people might not download as much music as me so the cost of the Xbox subscription might not make it worth while.
From what I understand the paid version of mix radio allows the user to have unlimited skips, better sound quality and unlimited offline mixes. The free version gives the user six skips per mix per hour and they can only download four offline mixes at a time.
I never used the free trial for the paid version. I've only ever used the free version.
Maybe uninstall and then reinstall....or look around online and see if others have the same problem.
You'd think that after your trial was up you'd still be able to take advantage of the free version and not hit roadblocks everytime you try to use it. Strange.
lolThat would be my guess too...not that that helps the situation.
I haven't had that problem. For me, it always plays one of the artists I've chosen first, and always goes back to a track by a chosen artist after a few songs.
What region are you in? I'm not sure what, if anything, changed, but while I was using the free version (without subscribing) I had no problems like you are describing.
Oh hey I'm in northeast FL myself...North Florida, yes it always starts with the artist of the favorite or mix but will only play 2 maybe 3 tracks from that artist in 2 hours and its always the same ones. It has a bad habit of forgetting what tracks I've liked or thumbs down. Don't get me wrong I like it its just a lil buggy but way better then Pandora and I can't see spending 10 bucks a month for Xbox music especially when im paying for a gold membership