Rdio Replacement
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@scottalanmiller said:
Oh, you don't mean radio services but packages? We'd never do that. Never send packages to a country where you don't own your address. You WILL lose everything, no matter what country it is.
As a non-world traveler ... what do you mean?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Oh, you don't mean radio services but packages? We'd never do that. Never send packages to a country where you don't own your address. You WILL lose everything, no matter what country it is.
As a non-world traveler ... what do you mean?
When you are not owning a house or are not known by the post office they will rarely deliver you packages and packages can take weeks or months to arrive - meaning often long after you have moved on. Forwarding is impossible, there is no tracking or predictability. There is no means of notifying you or whatever. All of the things that you take for granted in the US living in your own home don't generally exist in other countries. Things like street addresses (we don't have one now), mailboxes, obvious post offices, tracking... you don't have them. So you have no idea when to look for a package and no way to know when you've missed it.
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So how do you order stuff?
I had a .00001% chance of leaving the US before, now a few more zeroes were just added.
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@BRRABill said:
I had a .00001% chance of leaving the US before, now a few more zeroes were just added.
Why would you be doing online Amazon shopping while you were traveling anyway?
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How does anyone get anything?
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Ah, OK.
So if you have a home and permanent address you are OK.
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@BRRABill said:
Ah, OK.
So if you have a home and permanent address you are OK.
Of course, because then the postal service knows that you exist.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I use Amazon Prime. Works great with the Echo.
I've been playing with prime. Would be nice not to have another thing to pay for each month.
But I'm not sure I like it. It seems like I need to add an album/song to my library before playing it? is that right?
I also liked how Rdio gave suggestions, etc.
Not ruling it out yet, though.
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@BRRABill said:
But I'm not sure I like it. It seems like I need to add an album/song to my library before playing it? is that right?
That is an option but not a required one. Prime offers direct music that just becomes part of your own library or you can use stations like Pandora but without the ads.
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I'll have to give RDIO credit.
Today they released a "farewell" page with all sorts of neat stats (like the first song you listened to, your most listened to song), and also a bunch of export files of playlists and things like that, so you had a record of what you were doing.
They didn't just shutter up and quit.
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I pay for Spotify. Great selection, great interface, and their weekly suggest songs end up being right up my alley. They have a mobile app, and you can sync files offline in case you're somewhere that you can't get to the Internet.
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@Nic said:
I pay for Spotify. Great selection, great interface, and their weekly suggest songs end up being right up my alley. They have a mobile app, and you can sync files offline in case you're somewhere that you can't get to the Internet.
I'm trying to decide between that, Rhapsody (which I used to use before Rdio), and iTunes Music. And I guess Google Play, too.
iTunes is nice at $14.99 for 6 people, but you have to enable family sharing, which to me seems like a lot of work of hiding things I don't want my kids to see.