Beats Music

• se-alum

  

  Anyone use this? It seems like a good deal if you buy a lot of music. Just wondering what the music selection is like?
• Commander of Awesome

  

  I haven't really looked into it other than the commercials, but why would one use this over spotify? Spotify is cheaper and/or free if you can handle a commercial every 30 min. Plus they have pretty much most of the music I look for.
• sherm03

  

  Commander of Awesome;1580838 wrote:I haven't really looked into it other than the commercials, but why would one use this over spotify? Spotify is cheaper and/or free if you can handle a commercial every 30 min. Plus they have pretty much most of the music I look for.

  Spotify is only free on the computer, not on your phone. Plus, Beats is cheaper for the family plan option...unless of course you just give your login info to people to share it. But with Beats doing this, my thinking is that other streaming services will start to offer family plans and will not allow an account to be streaming on two devices at once.
• gut

  Beats is the old MOG. MOG is fantastic - for about $4/mo you get high quality streams at 320 bit rates. The music selection may not be quite as good as other services (but I've only discovered a handful of top artists not available) but you can create playlists and play a song as often as you like.
  
  The new Beats is going to be a little different. I think it's $10/mo, but believe that allows you to cache music for offline play (in other words, for $120 a year you can basically "own" whatever music and as much music as you want). There are some other tweaks that may or may not be beneficial, but the bottom line is for $10/mo you play what you want as often as you want.
  
  I still like Pandora as a free service for discovery. Now due to bandwidth and storage space, maybe 320kps songs don't work for you, but that's generally considered cd-quality.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  sherm03;1580846 wrote:Spotify is only free on the computer, not on your phone. Plus, Beats is cheaper for the family plan option...unless of course you just give your login info to people to share it. But with Beats doing this, my thinking is that other streaming services will start to offer family plans and will not allow an account to be streaming on two devices at once.

  I stream spotify to my phone all the time without a premium account.
• Automatik

  

  Commander of Awesome;1580851 wrote:I stream spotify to my phone all the time without a premium account.

  Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.
• sherm03

  

  Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.

  Exactly. Streaming on demand is a premium only service. Which is what the Beats Music is offering. There's also unlimited skips on the radio when you are paying for the service (whether it's Spotify, Beats, Google Music, etc.). You don't get that when you are on the free option.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.

  Ah maybe, I just stream my starred list.
• dlazz

  se-alum;1580836 wrote:Anyone use this? It seems like a good deal if you buy a lot of music. Just wondering what the music selection is like?

  It's just a Spotify/Google Music clone.
  
  I use Google Music and really like it
• gut

  dlazz;1580874 wrote:It's just a Spotify/Google Music clone.
  
  I use Google Music and really like it

  Actually Google Music is the late comer. This is just re-branding MOG - Beats bought them and is "shuttering" the MOG service.
• dlazz

  gut;1580877 wrote:Actually Google Music is the late comer. This is just re-branding MOG - Beats bought them and is "shuttering" the MOG service.

  I figured some smartass would come along and say this, but was too lazy to edit my post. What I was moreso implying they're all very comparable.
• gut

  dlazz;1580888 wrote:I figured some smartass would come along and say this, but was too lazy to edit my post. What I was moreso implying they're all very comparable.

  Haven't explored Google Music since they added the subscription streaming service. Sure, they are all comparable but I thought MOG was the best value at $4 per month (computer only), play what you want in high quality. Maybe that's why they got bought out, and apparently their smarpthone apps were garbage.
• iclfan2

  

  Automatik;1580853 wrote:Radio only, correct? When I was paying a premium account allowed to play searched songs/albums and your playlists.

  
  
  You can now shuffle an artist or listen to a playlist for free on spotify mobile.