What is the most well rounded Music app you use?.. Im an avid music lover and like trying out different services and apps. Im really curious what you all find overall well rounded experience
Nokia mix radio is ok just not sure the plus is worth the $ 4 bucks monthly I'll wait and see how it ripens, still cheaper than Spotify's $$..
Yea I agree, I've always been a fan of last fm never liked Pandora for its algorithmic way of choosing songs.. Keith have u used Spotify?
last.fm has a free version. I use the free version, not the paid version.Nope, and I don't intend to. None of these services are worth $10/month, in my opinion, and without offline streaming, Spotify offers nothing for me over Nokia Music.
last.fm has a free version. I use the free version, not the paid version.
Ok, I get what you're saying now. I do not need offline streaming, since my data plan is more than sufficient for my needs. I do not have any paid music apps, but I use: last.fm, Graffiti Radio (Pandora), iHeartRadio, Nokia Music (free), Slacker Radio, TuneInRadio.Same issue as with Spotify, the lack of offline streaming kills it for me. I use Nokia Music offline only, as when I'm around WiFi, I am usually:
1. At school.
2. At a family member's house, visiting.
3. At home, where I have access to my desktop for streaming or my general music library.
Online streaming without the current existence of unlimited data plans is just a no-go for me, because I have SO MUCH music on my phone to use anyway (over 15 GB), and I'm fairly picky as to the music I listen to, from a lyrical standpoint.
I tried to love Xbox Music, and have used it for the past few months...but we've broken up. Our relationship was done-in by the app's deficiencies in regard to playlist management; specifically, the inability to edit playlists on-the-fly (you can add songs via a clunky work-around, but you cannot remove or reorder songs; worse, the changes made to playlists on the phone do NOT get sync'd back to the Xbox Music apps on Windows 8 or Xbox 360). If not for that specific lack of functionality, I'd still be using Xbox Music today.
So...I've gone back to Spotify (for now). Since on-the-fly playlist editing is the #1 feature I'm looking for, it fits the bill...and it works really well. Changes I make to playlists on the phone immediately appear on my Windows machines. That said, it's not perfect -- the current Spotify app for WP8 lacks the service's Radio feature, which I find to be quite an omission. I'm also not enamored with the visual design of the app, but that's really neither here nor there. I'm hoping Spotify brings this app to feature parity with its iOS and Android siblings, but given the lack of love they previously showed to their WP7 app I'm not holding my breath.
So, like you, I'm still searching for the "perfect" music app!
I agree with everything you wrote. I have been on the fence between Xbox Music and Spotify. Currently I am sticking with Xbox Music because I use it to stream my playlists through my home theater receiver. I can live with the Xbox Music app in Windows 8 but I really want to be able to manage my playlists from my phone.
If Spotify had an Xbox app I would just use Spotify.