I use Grooveshark when I know what I want to listen to, otherwise there is a great service called The Hype Machine at hypem.com which is an excellent source of new and upcoming electronic/rap/dance/indie music
Poll: What online music service do you use most frequently?
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#12thesixtyone to listen and eMusic to buy. I have a last.fm account but hardly ever use it, and tried spotify a couple of times but see no value to it.
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#13I'm using Google Music Beta, primarily because it's free (for now), but also because they sent me a Cr48 and my first question when I got a Google Support Ninja on the phone (had to deal with a 3G problem) was about the best music app. They didn't have one at the time (he suggested lots of Google Ninjas use Grooveshark), but now they do, so I'm beta testing that as well.
My biggest problems with it:
- Frequently loses the 'play' button - the bottom control bar disappears after a while of leaving the tab open.
- No play counts in several of the views (album, for instance).
- No scrobbling - but there's a great Chrome extension called Better Music Beta which does it for you.
- No nested playlists or smart playlists.
- Uploading needs a lot of work - after uploading my entire library, I realized that a lot of the genre metadata was wrong, so I changed it in iTunes. The music uploader then started re-uploading a few thousand songs...
Things I like:
- It has all of my music!
- It's currently free...
- It sync'd my iTunes playlists (the non-smart ones anyway).
- It's good quality playback, and I've never had a display or playback problem that a page refresh didn't fix.
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#14For streaming music, YouTube playlists and http://www.di.fm/ are my favorites for convenience. It's nice to have the tracks sequenced by actual DJs in mixes if I want to hear a lot of new stuff. Di.fm is the only streaming service I have actually payed for before, they have a good iPhone app as well.
I also use Last.fm, but only for passive scrobbling and not listening.
Youtube should definitely be on this list, it has an insane amount of material compared to every other catalog, there are even plenty of out of print Vinyl rips being uploaded.
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#15Other: The Hype Machine (hypem.com)
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#16I buy a lot of (physical medium) music, so I don't need to pay for a music service and I have a collection of music on my hard drive that I want to listen to. Because of this, I use Google Music a lot, especially considering they have a good mobile app for my phone.
Grooveshark has become a distant second since I got my Google Music invite, and I used Last.fm before I found out about Grooveshark.
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#17+1 Turntable.fm
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#18Not strictly a service, but perhaps "torrents" should be an option? I know of a few people who either buy or torrent everything.
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#19Surprised no one mentioned iTunes. I probably spend way too much money on iTunes on albums every month.
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