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What music subscription service are you using?

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Hrmmmm......

Playlists limited to 500 tracks..... not pleased.

edit: Maybe not.... looks like splitting a large playlist into two might have been a function of the freeyourmusic transfer. I appear to be able to add the titles from the second half of the split to the original and push that playlist beyond 500 tracks.
 
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You try this before paying? First time I went from GPM to Spotify I used freeyourmusic. And every other time I transferred between different services I used the above. Seems to work perfectly fine and free.
 
What are you guys transferring? Just curious. Are you transferring just playlists that you've built (@sswilson mentioned that) or are you also transferring your own music that you converted and uploaded? And if you are doing the latter, but the song is available on the service you are paying a subscription for, why bother? Better quality or something? Or maybe it's a backup location for your own music?

As I said, I don't do much with recorded music these days. Not saying not to do it, I'm just trying to understand what you're doing and why.
 
Lysrin said:
What are you guys transferring? Just curious. Are you transferring just playlists that you've built (@sswilson mentioned that) or are you also transferring your own music that you converted and uploaded? And if you are doing the latter, but the song is available on the service you are paying a subscription for, why bother? Better quality or something? Or maybe it's a backup location for your own music?

As I said, I don't do much with recorded music these days. Not saying not to do it, I'm just trying to understand what you're doing and why.
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I was transferring playlists and songs/albums that I've favorited. Both playlists that I've created, and also playlists created by other people (including Spotify) that I liked. I could technically just go and do that manually on Amazon, but man, that would take hours, if not days. AND my wife and daughter both have their own playlists that would need doing. Easier just to pay $23 and have it automate.

sswilson said:
Heh... Oh, yeah, not sure on that. I will however be removing / changing the CC number they have on file to prevent it from automatically renewing.... :)
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I never did find a way to self-cancel my premium subscription. I did however email their support email (pretty easy to find), and within 24hr they responded back saying my premium subscription had been cancelled. As soon as my plan expires (in April), I'll be automatically switched back to Basic, which never expires. So, I"m not impressed at the lack of a self-cancellation feature, but that is tempered by the fact that their support email appears to be responsive.


One additional point to make, and perhaps a bit of a black mark against FreeYourMusic - I went home after work yesterday, and went to install Amazon Music on my daughter's PC (she wasn't terribly receptive at the thought of changing, but whatever, she'll get over it). I discovered none of her playlists had been transferred over. What the Heck, I thought, and then didn't think about it until I got back in the office this morning. There I discovered that the FreeYourMusic app had been hitched on Boulevard of Broken Dreams since yesterday. I had to click on the transfer that contained the song (easy to see, as it was shown as 84% complete), and cancel the transfer, at which point the remainder of the transfers resumed.
So, it didn't go off completely without a hitch, but overall, it seems to work pretty well.
 
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lowfat said:
soundiiz.com

Soundiiz - Transfer playlists and favorites between streaming services

Convert playlists and favorites between different music platforms. Import your playlists and favorites from Apple Music to Spotify, TIDAL, YouTube Music, Deezer and many more!
soundiiz.com soundiiz.com

You try this before paying? First time I went from GPM to Spotify I used freeyourmusic. And every other time I transferred between different services I used the above. Seems to work perfectly fine and free.
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Unfortunately I didn't and it's too late now to turn back since I already subbed for 3 months. :)

Lysrin said:
What are you guys transferring? Just curious. Are you transferring just playlists that you've built (@sswilson mentioned that) or are you also transferring your own music that you converted and uploaded? And if you are doing the latter, but the song is available on the service you are paying a subscription for, why bother? Better quality or something? Or maybe it's a backup location for your own music?

As I said, I don't do much with recorded music these days. Not saying not to do it, I'm just trying to understand what you're doing and why.
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It's not for your own music, it's strictly for the playlists / "liked" songs / artists / albums. It could conceivably be done manually (print up a list from the original service then search and add on the new one) but a 700+ track playlist would take forever. (It took me probably more than half an hour just to "add to playlist" the 270(ish) tracks that were split off into a second playlist after I hit 500.

As far as the search for a new streaming service goes.... so far it's amazon, but I tried out Deezer this morning hoping that it might have some form of remote feature (like spotify connect) with no luck. I does indeed appear to have some kind of deal with tunemymusic for free transfers, but I can't find anything that would allow me to "cast" from my phone to a windows client.

I'm going to give tidal a try as well to see if it's got something similar to spotify connect but I'm not going to hold my breath.... guess I'll just have to learn to live without seeing the current track. (or work out some way to force the app window to "stay on top".
 
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"Funny" how a decision to change streaming services cascades into other issues....

Because of the loss of spotify connect I'm now trying to kludge a second monitor onto/around my gym's rolling tv/media stand, and I've discovered that Android Auto (Phone)'s Amazon Music functionality (or more importantly the lack of being able to designate AM as the default music service) so I'm also looking into switching to Waze as opposed to google maps on AA(P).
 
I honestly don't think you can really tell the difference between the highest quality MP3 vs FLAC...not impossible, there will be times, but if you compare those against DSD, well, that's an entirely different story. of course, you need to have proper hifi gear at this point as that's going to be one of the biggest, if not biggest limiting factor. if your chain is crap it doesn't matter how good the source quality is. :P
 
Side note, since this thread is slightly political and I found this very interesting.

Joni Mitchell followed suit and pulled her tunes too. Apparently both of them had polio as kids, so they have some legit precedence to be very pro vaxx motivated. Polio is no joke. (Either is the ' vid).
 
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lowfat said:
I'm using Spotify but I don't really like it. Just the best of the worst IMO.

Always have to have my phone in offline otherwise it screws up the the current place in the playlist every single time I move between the two.

And if I try to play music on an Echo. It will always restart from the same damn song and also screw up the playlist. Must have listened to Green Day - Dookie 10 times before I figured out wtf was going on.

The only device Spotify seems to work right on is my desktop. So if I want to listen to Spotify on any device I need to use my PC, then 'cast' it to device.

And the lack of a dislike button bothers me. I have no way to tell if I've listened to a song before and not liked it.

EDIT: Also have the same issue as I've had for the last year. Certain playlists will always restart to the same song after a while. So I end up listening to the same 15-20 songs over and over. In a playlist of 500+.
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Now that I'm switched over to Amazon Music I'm really noticing the effect of this issue. I'm now getting served songs from my 700+ track general mix playlist that I'm sure I haven't heard in 2 years of the same playlist shuffled on spotify.

I'm also inclined to accept the suggestions that spotify is heavily compressing their tracks. Could conceivably be a placebo effect, but Amazon's streams sound better to my ear. (Both in home "HD" quality and the "Standard" quality files I've downloaded to my phone.)
 
Spotify is really starting to get in on my nerves. Over the last couple weeks offline mode works for about 2-3 days now instead of 30.

Guess I need to start looking for an alternative, again. :(
 
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