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Music streaming subscription services?
Uselesswarrior
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I'm sick of bring new music into my work computer and I'm sick of all the tracks I have on there currently so I am looking into a streaming music service.
Right now I am checking out Rhapsody. Which is nice because of the shear amount of music, but the player and navigation could use some serious work.
I saw that napster offers the same thing for about half the price, so I may look into that, but they don't seem to offer a free trail and googling for 'napster trail' is helpful at all due to its legal history.
EDIT: found a free trail, http://www.napster.com/choose/index_default.html.
Anyone have any recommendations/thoughts on streaming services?
Right now I am checking out Rhapsody. Which is nice because of the shear amount of music, but the player and navigation could use some serious work.
I saw that napster offers the same thing for about half the price, so I may look into that, but they don't seem to offer a free trail and googling for 'napster trail' is helpful at all due to its legal history.
EDIT: found a free trail, http://www.napster.com/choose/index_default.html.
Anyone have any recommendations/thoughts on streaming services?
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Also Pandora doesn't let you choose what you want to listen to.
I certainly don't have a 20 minute load time and use Pandora every day. Sure you have limited ability to manipulate the station to hear what you want, but for Free it is hard to complain.
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You misunderstand. My work throttled Pandora, Pandora works great other places except my work.
They will probably eventually do the same thing to whatever music service I choose, but if I can get three months of it, I will be happy.
Also note that by your IT department throttling one thing, and you trying to circumvent it again, you risk disciplinary action at your work. Trust me, as a guy who works in IT fighting with people like you that do this all the time, it pisses *a lot* of people off.
Is listening to streaming music worth your job?
Out of curiosity, how much bandwidth does something like that take up?
I work in a noisy office and I need to listen to something to drone out the noise. They've blocked usb devices so I can no longer bring in music from home, at least not easily. Essentially I wouldn't be able to do my job well unless I had music to listen to.
It's enough, especially if you have a lot of people. See, what you don't realize is that while your network might be blazing fast, you likely have an internet connection that isn't much faster than a standard home connection, and when you get a few dozen people sharing it, it can get eaten up pretty quick. That, as much as anything, is why a lot of companies have policies restricting internet use.
if you need something to listen to, bring an iPod or something in. That's what I do, I just leave it with one earbud in, when I need to talk to someone, earbud comes out.
The first and easiest is just to bring my mp3 player, pull the 1/8 speaker jack to my computer speakers out of the computer and plug it into the mp3 player. Simple, straightforward, works.
The second is using rhapsody, but scaling the bandwidth it's allowed to use way back by spec'ing a 33 k connection. The music will come out tinny and horribly compressed, but for quiet work listening, it seems to do the trick. You do this by opening Rhapsody's preferences, picking the conection tab, and setting it there. I should point out though, that the bandwidth use can still get up there, I try to limit it to 50mb a day so I don't get caught.
The third option is to try and find an unsecured wireless around and bring in your laptop (if you have one) to piggyback off of that. (For the mods, note that I'm not saying you should hack someone's wireless, only that if someone is broadcasting an open access point, no reason you couldn't use it to stream music.)
Honestly the easiest, hassle free way I've found is to just bring in an mp3 player and hook it to the speakers.
given the likelyhood that other sites will be throttled as well, this might be the best option.
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Amazing channels and all free. Maybe a 10 second add every 30-45 minutes.
On the other hand, it's free (if you don't mind ads).
As someone who works in an environment where streaming sites of all kinds are blocked, I have to back up the MP3 player option. I'm pretty sure if you read your company's Computer Usage Agreement, or whatever their term is, there's a clause in there about not using music/video streaming sites or applications that negatively impact network performance.
I implore you to abandon the streaming route. As someone who manages an environment where people streaming used to eat a majority of our bandwidth, you're going to make your IT staff want to choke a bitch. Get a Slacker Personal Radio or download the Pandora/last.fm/Slacker app for your smartphone of choice (slacker has an app for blackberries). Get an ipod. Maybe a Sirius or XM receiver. Hell, I hear they make these magic boxes that pull music from thin air.
to get an iPhone you pay for the data plan, so no, you can use as much bandwidth as you like on the iPhone.
However, if they've blocked USB devices, I assume that also includes iPods. If iPhones are acceptable, though... why not get an iPod touch and just tell your work people that it's an iPhone?
Though I don't have it, I'm seriously considering the Zunepass option, myself. Though my work doesn't throttle internet like that, I still feel odd streaming all day long using their bandwidth.