To stream or not

To me there are two different music lovers, the first is format focused and the other is artist focused. Now I know that you're different you're a bit of both, but you're probably driven by one first. So my weekly blog this week I would like to review two apps, spotify and tunein radio, I have tested both and depending on your predominate music driver will prefer one to the other

Tune in radio, streams 1,000's of Internet radio stations from all over the globe, in my favourites I have smooth jazz, swing, big band, cafe, blues jazz stations, I love this as I'm in the mood for s certain format of music I'll dial up the stream and listen away for hours. The benefit of this app over all the other streaming radio apps is the ability to record up to 8 hours of music for offline listening pleasure later. It easily hunts down all the local radio stations in NZ that I could never listen to (bfm in Auckland) and make available any station no matter where. The other thing worth noting is the data usage, it's really not that bad with the most you'll use is 60-80meg and HOUR, that's all so even on expensive or restricted data plans you can listen to any station anywhere in the world!

Spotify, is my most recent trial app that I became aware of after being at a friends place. Now, my preferred way to listen it music is not artist centric so this one has had less use time than tune in radio, but saying that, for only $10 a month (U.S) it's a great deal! I do enjoy listening to some artists and now I can with out having to buy expensive CD's to racks of iTunes that fill up my valuable space on my idevices. Just a note, even though I find the $10 a good deal I've not yet signed up....?

 

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