What do you do for offline Music?

[cyberess]

Since I am a bit slack I really don't have much of a music collection,

I really do like the Radio Station "Hot Country Radio" Darwin 92.3FM
The problem is, in Darwin their transmission is really poor.. and the Radio Station even has dead spots in Darwin.

With this Country music listing I found myself liking Artists like
Lachlan Bryan
Kasey Chambers
Peter Denahy
Sara Storer
etc
etc

Now just a few Klms out of town no music.

I have been experimenting with a trail of JBhifo "now" service https://now.jbhifi.com.au/  and thinking maybe taking it up for 12 months for a $100  --  The idea with a Android device I will offline the music that I like, and keep sort of upto date with my music and give myself a instant collection that I like, and have good music through my travels

What I have found so far experimenting with the service, it works O.K. with a Android phone Samsung S4 the https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.jbhifi.now.android  maybe a touch buggy  -- the music quality is very good,  to get the best I have setup what they call mixes,  I actually use my PC to setup the mixes, then I just connect with the phone, and the phone will update the mix on it self and download the music  ..  I did find it very confusing to work out if the phone is actually downloading the music, but once enabled it's rather quick to download the music, so far I have about 600 meg of music offlined on the phone.

I have found that I can use my car stereo tablet 

What I do not like with the way that the service works ..   

• It appears to only auth by using Facebook credentials  -- my facebook password is quite long and a pain to type in the phone. 
• When using a android device get into the play queue is done by a little button top right hand screen -- that is a bit of a pain and the play queue doe not automatically startup
• The JBhi Now App is not so tablet ready and only starts up in portrait mode  --  that was a pain on my car stereo device that runs Android -- Did manage a work around by using an external to force the application to run on landscape mode.
• The search function on their web site sucks a bit, for instance I accidentally  typed in Sara Stora   --  it found nothing
• On the PC I don'e appear to be able to add a whole music album to a mix  --  and the shuffle it a bit confusing

With all of this I am still considering the service, but I am also looking at the alternatives like  "Google Play Music All Access", "Spotify" 

Does anyone know of a better service like JBhi now music, or any other suggestion on how I may achieve my objective?

[Swannie]

I use MOG through telstra, about 12 bucks a month and if your telstra customer their is now mb charges etc
Swannie

[Hogbert_1999]

For streaming I use pandora uses data but really good otherwise I Dl music podcasts when on wifi :-)


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[raider]

I am sure Bird would have some recommendations for Country music.

[jmorgan1981]

Music unlimited Sony.

You can save playlist to offline.

$13 a month.

We have the same account on my phone the wifes phone the tablet and the PS3.

[ripas]

Spotify - even more so now with the family account.

[muzza01]

One hing I really love is music, unfortunately I don't count the stuff you ate chasing as music (I don't mind Casey Chambers)
We own 1000's of CD's but I can download them for free a lot quicker than a ripping a Cd into MP3.
Just Google what you want, say Casey Chambers TORRENT. There you go.

[barrel01]

Spotify here too.

[DannyG]

I use bittorrents for everything.....music....movies.....software..........

[berlitza]

I use bittorrents for everything.....music....movies.....software..........

ssssshhhhhhhh they can see what you type     

[DannyG]

ssssshhhhhhhh they can see what you type     

Only the legal and free stuff of course!

[berlitza]

youtube are rolling out there music tab which matches music you have listened to in the past just another way of scoring free educating yaself of whats out there and just how bad the music is these days..

it's ipod and big arsed playlist for mwa,, I'm highly allergic to bills

[Bird]

65,000 mp3's and a car stereo...

[cyberess]

Interesting

Spotify is interesting but the premium access what I would need is $12 per month which is $144 per year -- haven't tried it as yet, but what I have read it appears to have a high quality app, that could be a good thing..   what I don't like about Spotify, it appear to what you to load your credit card to pay monthly automatically  -- just no so keen on that idea -- still I am downloading their app for my PC now just to see what's it like

Google unlimited is exactly the same price which is  $12 per month which adds upto $144 per year

The JB hifi if paying a year a head at $100 works out to $8.33 per month

The Torrent idea -- not bad, but it's really not the way that I want to go, seem to pick up a bit or rubbish at times, and just searching for some albums just don't exist.

Pandora yeah that does work well but no offline.

[Nomad]

Guvera.
Its free, with a few adds.
Gets the odd bug but so far I am happy with it.

[xcvator]

I use MOG through telstra, about 12 bucks a month and if your telstra customer their is now mb charges etc
Swannie

Sorry mate, that's closing on 12th Dec 

[Swannie]

Sorry mate, that's closing on 12th Dec 

Ok didn't know that will have to try something else
Swannie

[cyberess]

There is a option for Spotify that I found..  but I don't know if it's dodgy

On ebay there is 12 Months subscription being sold for $72.50 
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Spotify-Premium-for-12-months-lowest-price-on-eBay-/231389870382

They expect to load it on your account  using your username and password   -- I certainly wouldn't use a facebook login  and the password would have to be changed immediately after the credit had been updated  ..  Hmm 

[cyberess]

Defiantly sus -- It appears to be a scam  - I think 

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Accounts-and-Subscriptions/Spotify-premium-accounts-are-being-hacked-from-TELIA-dk-and-sold/td-p/255086
and
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Accounts-and-Subscriptions/12-month-Premium-ebay/td-p/812313

So that's not the way that I'm going to go

[fuji]

I just want music on my phone for offline only. I like to go for a walk and listen to music. I only get 500 mb a month download and music swallows it up.

[Nay-DMAX]

Interesting

Spotify is interesting but the premium access what I would need is $12 per month which is $144 per year -- haven't tried it as yet, but what I have read it appears to have a high quality app, that could be a good thing..   what I don't like about Spotify, it appear to what you to load your credit card to pay monthly automatically  -- just no so keen on that idea -- still I am downloading their app for my PC now just to see what's it like

Google unlimited is exactly the same price which is  $12 per month which adds upto $144 per year

The JB hifi if paying a year a head at $100 works out to $8.33 per month

The Torrent idea -- not bad, but it's really not the way that I want to go, seem to pick up a bit or rubbish at times, and just searching for some albums just don't exist.

Pandora yeah that does work well but no offline.

With regards to paying with CC an option might be the prepaid visa from the post office then you just top it up. For music we have mp3 players, whatever music we already have on our phones and if we are in the car usb and cd's as well.  For camping we have a Ryobi one plus small radio and you can plug mp3 into that as well.  I like country music too but the better half doesn't lol so those are on my mp3

[Frostd]

We use Pandora and spotify. Have found them very good.  But if, you want legal downloads, a quick search will find a torrent. It would be a kickass idea to do.

[Bird]

I been using http://beemp3s.org/ for years..

thankfully they don't have country music.

[Curytntm]

Spotify. For the win. I own probably 1000s of cds but since I got spoyify about a year ago really stopped using them.

[DannyG]

I been using http://beemp3s.org/ for years..

thankfully they don't have country music.

I have around 4000 country songs...ill put them on a disc for you