my iPod died, unless I can get a new one for super cheap, Im ready to take the plunge and join the cool kids table and start streaming

You will not see ads on Youtube if you subscribe to Google Play.

Free 3 months: https://slickdeals.net/f/10406612-google-play-music-3-months-unlimited-subscription-for-free-new-subscribers-only?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo


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Note: Must sign into your Google account to purchase. Upon completion of your 3-Month trial, the monthly rate to continue service is $9.99. You may cancel at any time before your trial end date and still receive the full 3-Months of membership benefits without incurring further charges. Purchase of this subscription also includes access to YouTube Red.

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Gone: My Discogs collection for The Roots:
http://www.discogs.com/user/tomhayes-roots/collection

And outside of artists with exclusive deals with certain providers the Play library seems to me to be on par with Spotify, Apple, etc. regardless of genre, rarity, year released, etc.

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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

.....but would like to use a different app while doing so, the YouTube Red option via Google Music is a Godsend since it lets you leave YouTube but still allows you to listen to it despite doing so.



Since 1976

I hate how I have to keep YT open

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

soundtrack a bodega, coffee shop, casual restaurant or cocktail spot.

but that's my employer's account, I'm not on any of that (I really, really, really liked the impression of Apple Music's DJ-ran radio stations when it was free, though).

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

They got the most shit and the best playlists.

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use the free trial and see if you like it.

I have Spotify, Tidal, and Pandora,

Spotify-love that I can share playlist with other people

Tidal- gives me a military (veteran) discount (5.99) and I like that they pay artist more, the concerts are dope too (wish they had an option to just listen to the concerts sometimes).

Pandora-probably the best Algorhythm of "guessing" what I like to hear. And some really good podcasts but i think those are free anyways so...

I used to have Apple Music for Beats 1 radio shows but I dont miss it..I catch the Dre show, Q tip etc on a bootleg download every not and then...

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Spotify is good all around and its playlist algorithms are great if you take a little time to learn it

i prefer Spotify because i had it before either existed and i'm already too deep

Tidal pays artists more

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

as if I should be ashamed...
feel the same way about okay artist
hence why I'm still here...

you know i just like pickin with you.

into it...
I get the impression he's just waiting to cash in and cash out....
If I were to subscribe (technically I currently do since I forgot to cancel my trial on the 30th) I don't think i'd really feel like I was supporting another Black man as much as i'm supporting another corporate entity that cares only about my $$.

With that said...it's a good app and service...but hasn't won me over enough to roll with it over Google Play.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

They develop playlists for you based on what you listen to. It's a great way to find new music & new artists when you don't have time to go digging like you used to.

The service/product can always be improved upon but there's no denying who owns the ship. And I've got no problem supporting the movement.

“Playin’ for high stakes/Norman Cake, he looked up and out of the Lear/How niggas can’t relate?/Fuck a slice of the apple pie, want my own cake/Chargin’ my own fate, respect Jimmy Iovine/But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime/And niggas playin’ for power, huh/So our music is ours/Niggas only own houses/Ours was, "Fuck you, pay me"/Now it's, "Fuck payin' me, I pay you” JAY-Z

support the regime.

>support the regime.
But don't bootleg it - Jay-Z will stab you up with the quickness.

But the truth is: These services are almost all alike. 95% same catalog.

Apple and Pandora Premium provide some good original programming. Google Play gives you YouTube Red.

Tidal has "high definition music" which might sound better if you have golden ears. It's like Pono (RIP) with more rap. (Xstream's coming y'all.) There are test on the net you can take to see if YOU can hear the difference.

AND Tidal gives you a copy of a Jay-Z record 1 week before everyone else gets it - unless he's already made a deal with a phone manufacturer to have them send it out first.

And although there's a lot of obfuscation it appears that Google Play pays the artist more than Tidal (and Tidal pays more than almost all the others.)

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Gone: My Discogs collection for The Roots:
http://www.discogs.com/user/tomhayes-roots/collection

cant knock the hustle. i aint seeing a dime of it so idc.

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Tidal aint some black enterprise

Thats like not fucking with Kellogs because Diddy bought General Mills

they seem to have a more extensive library of beats-oriented music.

IG: amadu_me

"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

but a part of me wants to go with Tidal for obvious reasons.

The way my sister said she was on Tidal had me jealous...lol

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Amazon Music has gotten exponentially better over the past year
fairly large catalog plus old school stuff
and the clean hiphop selection is key for my 10 year old

i never warmed up to Spotify, ended up deleting it

people cited the curated playlists and abundance of mixtapes, but im not big on mixtapes and i dont trust anyones playlists. Amazon Music has both if you're into that sort of thing

i hate Apple so ill never even try Apple Music

i do want to try Tidal though

The app on the phone used to be really shitty, so I never went back to it after they first introduced it a few years back. Has it gotten better?



"Get ready....for your blessing....."

the navigation of the app is fine to me, i know its gone through a few upgrades

my only issue is its handling of offline music. there was no option to delete songs in bulk, forcing you to either delete songs one by one or delete the app then reinstall to get rid of it.

what's the best service on the grounds of music, cost or whatever else

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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

that simple for me Haha

Prior to that you might remember me as a staunch Zune advocate lol....
Microsoft started all this, sucks they didn't know how to make it pop.

Spotify lost me when they forced you to sign up via Facebook....


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

>Spotify lost me when they forced you to sign up via
>Facebook....


but i did already have an account with ads, so this was an upgrade to premium. maybe that's why.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Spotify-without-Facebook/td-p/15843

it's all coming back to me now, because this was when our first kid was due and I was trying to cut some costs in the house and get rid of my Xbox live membership (which was required to play Zune music through the Xbox)...


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

The streaming service battles were just getting started good and when Zune/Xbox Music was shutting down (before being branded as Groove or something).....
That soured me though....I even have a Spotify account from BEFORE they had the signup only through Facebook model...but for some reason it wasn't compatible during that stretch. I can log in to it now on the website I think, but not the phone app.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

theres a link right below the sign in with facebook button

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

just a black person that gravitate towards some black things. it confuses me that we aren't more supportive. We seem to be the most critical....of each other. Like. holding each other to higher standards.

On some "prove" to me shit"

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

>it confuses me that we aren't more supportive. We seem to be
>the most critical....of each other. Like. holding each other
>to higher standards.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

their playlist algorithm are better than Pandora's and apple music, and it's cheaper than Tidal.

just saying

I abhor YouTube ads....
well....I used to...now I never see them lol.


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/28/jay-z-beyonce-tidal-staff-photo-white-people/

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

like. perhaps if we were more supportive those people could be replaced. For now...got have them on the team.

y'all not ready tho...

not saying it definitely looks different now, but it might.

the marketing room might look more diverse now. lol

haven't seen an updated pic.

i mean, they're in Sweden

there's gotta be an office in the states now though, right?

haha again, i really don't know, which i'm sure is obvious.

i can't see any of the coding being done stateside

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

with all new Black coders in the US.

I would open offices in the US and hire some Black folk for the business side AND I may send a few coders over to Norway to learn if they were willing to go.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

keep living lol

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when you have 100% Caucasoid staff in Sweden, you can't have it both ways, sorry.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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They are really good at suggesting stuff to listen to. I've been toying with the idea of switching to Amazon Music since we have Prime and I'm always looking to minimize recurrent expenses, but Spotify knows me so well at this point I'm scurred to leave lol

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platform. unless i can somehow export them and assuming the other platform has most of the stuff i listen to. The google play sounds cool for ad free youtube but i mostly already have that with adblockers.

spotify family plan is a pretty good deal, i think it's 5 people for $15. i've been thinking of just giving it to my parents for the extra $5 on top of the $10 i'm already paying for my own plan.

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i have too much time invested in my iTunes music library. i remember when i was switching between players trying to avoid iTunes and i finally made the commitment i said this was it and i was signing my music listening life over to Apple for the forseeable future. i'm too far gone now. so if i did this streaming shit (i won't) i'd go w/Apple's Bullshit. but fuck that and fuck them.

fuck you.

only drawback is sometimes she is teaching a class and she forgets to go offline.

I wonder what the class looks like when a classical song changes to Nas or Little Brother.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

i'm not here for any of that streaming shit largely b/c i don't have unlimited data and i'm always wondering what i'm supposed to do when i'm out of data service area (like when *insert train here* is underground - plenty of them don't have data coverage in all of the tunnels yet).

plus i just don't want to have access to like, 'everything' all of the time. when i had my whole music library downloaded on my iPod it was just too much. lots of skipping. so i had to make playlists. i guess that's what i'd do on streaming services too, huh?

yeah. no. i don't want or need the digital overlords have that info about me. they already have more info than i want them to have. i'm not giving them this too.

hell, i'm still praying it'll all end soon. if only to watch kids freak the fuck out about not having that shit. b/c i remember the world b4 all of this geekery took over. we lived just fine. we lived better, i think. we can do it again.

fuck you.

so you can have like 1,000 songs offline at one time and use settings to only download over wifi.

I'm all in and won't ever go back.

so much music.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

to be able to go on road trips and have TONS of music that will keep banging regardless of how shitty of a service area I'm going through is priceless.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

If I'm unfamiliar with a song/artist I pull it up on Tidal and save it to my playlist.

then there's.. artists who create exclusive playlist. I like those. The cleanliness of it. It's funny, because I can see the shift...its slow but you can see. There's always updates. I'm sure there's a lot more I can do with it but for right now... I can't deny a big part of why I subscribe over others is because of Jay. I want him to win. Nothing to do with being blinded, a stan. while, I'm an "all lives" matter person...putting the folks first, is just in me especially when we're making those kind of moves because most of us will never be able to..

Any of us can buy I house...

what ?

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Why are you an all lives matter person on a big issue like police brutality, but when it comes to something trivial like a streaming music subscription you think we doing Jay wrong if we don't support ?

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like. I don't believe any of us can place a value on life. While its a contradiction to talk about black lives matter and give bullshit excuses about why you can't support tidal

b/c Jay seems pretty focused on living the good life (which is fine for what it is) but not so focused on using his $ to make sure WE live better. he's definitely doing whatever so his kids have whatever (okay) but what does that have to do w/US?

i'm not convinced that helping Jay win helps us win except i guess as him being some example. but i don't see his $ being put back in to us - at least not much of it. but i'm not out there counting that man's money either. it's his. he can do what he wants w/it. but i won't be guilt tripped into giving him more so he and Yonce can have 5 extra toilets to shit in. i'm not about that.

fuck you.