Now that there is Pandora, You Tube, I Music, Iheart etc...

[LifeIsABeach]

Its amazing I really cannot believe it. Dont understand how they work? Through ads? They give money to artists? or are they going to shut these things down?

iheartradio is just a list of ClearChannel radio stations. They make money through commercials. Pandora and Slacker have pay services to listen commercial free while their free services say they have commercials (although I have yet to hear one in the year I have had my G2 Slacker radio). None will be shut down since they all pay royalties to the artists, but I am not sure how well Pandora and Slacker are doing financially.

 

[Backnblack]

Its amazing I really cannot believe it. Dont understand how they work? Through ads? They give money to artists? or are they going to shut these things down?

iheartradio is just a list of ClearChannel radio stations. They make money through commercials. Pandora and Slacker have pay services to listen commercial free while their free services say they have commercials (although I have yet to hear one in the year I have had my G2 Slacker radio). None will be shut down since they all pay royalties to the artists, but I am not sure how well Pandora and Slacker are doing financially.

I believe the ads on Pandora are shown on the screen.....

 

[qoncept]

Pandora has ads on the screen and short audio ads. I think the audio ads depend on the client though, and it would seem Android doesn't have them yet. Blackberry didn't either.

As unobtrusive as Pandoras ads are and as cheap as the pay-to-remove-ads deal is, I can't see how it's profitable.

 

[sillyrabbitt123]

i guess its i music that i dont really get. i see the ads on pandora and i understand iheart but DL off i music seems reminiscent of napster.

 

[qoncept]

I just looked at I Music. I don't know anything about it but I doubt it's legit. The fact that the summary on the market is in broken English makes me believe it's probably created by someone in a country that can get away with it. Russia?

 

[sillyrabbitt123]

Anyone use Twuzic in conjunction with i music? It mentions something about saving online playlists? I would like to do this but dont understand how.

I am also not DL anything from I music just listening online.

thanks!

 

[tu3218]

I had some time and thought I would figure out a way to sync some music on my phone. Very easy, and maybe well known, I couldn't think of a way yesterday but found one so I thought I would share.

Windows Media Player has some options to sync music. I made a playlist in my normal media player(zune software), it showed up in the WMP window too.

Next I plugged my Droid into the computer, mounted the SD card so it would show up in "My Computer." Then I right clicked on it and clicked "Open as Portable Device" this made it show up in WMP.

In WMP it showed up as the device connected, I dragged a playlist over to sync and clicked sync. All done!

WMP makes a folder on the SD card called Music.

awesome!!! I'll have to try this out later. thanks

 

[hookbill]

Do any of these music services have a channel like XM's Deep Tracks? I'm not just talking about Classic Rock I'm talking about tracks that you don't usually hear on the radio. That would be so cool.

 

[wil318466]

The music options on this phone is unbelievable. If you just got the phone for music and phone calls it'd be worth it.

Pandora, shoutcast, iheart, imusic.. Just hearing a song you like, using shazam to identify/tag it, then going to imusic to play it and download it is just amazing.

I still don't know how they get away with all this.

-Wil

 

[sillyrabbitt123]

the only thing i can think is it will be shut down or.........
we signed our information life away when we DL the apps

 

[qoncept]

Do any of these music services have a channel like XM's Deep Tracks? I'm not just talking about Classic Rock I'm talking about tracks that you don't usually hear on the radio. That would be so cool.

I'm not familiar with that but Pandora will play some pretty obscure stuff, and most of it you'll probably like after you've been using it for a while and it's gotten a good idea of what you like.