The real music comes out of the 4 speakers at the back!

 

Tidal streaming service has superior audio quality to Spotify.

 

Thanks for mentioning TIDAL . I have just tried it at HIFI quality and it is amazing. Significantly better than Spotify in quality,dynamics are staggering better. Works through wireless CarPlay well so far but have not tested it extensively yet. I will look at the plan costs soon as still just on free one month trial period, and if similar to Spotify will def swap over..

 

The amount of people on the F-Type forum saying they're too cheap for Spotify is baffling lmao

 

I've got spotify premium, and quite apart from using it in the car what I am really liking is the suggestions that it makes. I had been getting a little bored with music and only heard new things from soundtracks to movies or clips, but Spotify's algorithm has sorted me out very nicely. I have come across many artists that fit my tastes that I never would have known existed and it has really given me a new lease on my music life, and now my missus has gotten into it in a fairly big way as well for the same reason. We would be using it 2 - 3 hours a day easily between us, so I suppose we really get our money's worth.

So every so often after a playlist has run I will click through the recommendations, more often that not I will come across something that I like and explore that artist, set up a new playlist quick as a snap. As someone who can get very obsessive about music (or pretty much anything) it has really been a game changer.

 

It's $10 a month. I used to spend more than that a week on CDs.

 

I already pay for Sirius XM in both of my cars and I have Pandora through my Android Auto app. I wish the sound quality of both were better, I don't think it even approaches FM radio. I have the free Spotify app at home and would like to have the upgraded app in my cars but I'm just tired of all the nickel and dime monthly charges for things like phones, internet, cable, and mobile music apps.

If Sirius XM were to step up to the plate and improve their fidelity I'd be happy but I won't hold my breath. Same with Pandora.

 

I'm afraid the SiriusXM poor audio quality is probably from JLR's implementation, not SiriusXM - at least, plenty of folks have decent quality on other platforms - it wasn't bad on my previous Mercury Milan. I let mine lapse; I listen to mostly classical and thought most recordings on SiriusXM in my F-type sounded like a 78rpm vinyl recording (some could be, but not all.) Plus, they kept deleting the few channels I listened to.

 

Pandora for me!

 

Er, weren't 78s made from shellac?

 

I may be old, but I’m not that old. I’ll defer to you.

 

I choose Spotify because it has a bigger music library and new songs are added every day.

 

I have converted to YouTube Music. Better automatic playlists than Pandora, and haven't found anything it doesn't have yet.

 

I'm getting more and more into YouTube music. I like to let it 'rabbit hole' I enter a song I want to hear and then sort of let it go from there. I've rediscovered some great songs I've forgotten about and found some that I never knew. My only gripe is they seemed to have changed the algorithm lately so it doesn't provide as much variety.

 

We recently got a quite big screen TV and have a good soundbar, I am finding the TV excellent for youtube viewing. While it has voice control, I actually mainly use a keyboard for searching and then the recommendations do the rest (my missus queries why a lot of the recommended videos have large breasted ladies in the thumbnail, I honestly dont know how that has happened unless the TV can read minds). But yes I think that while spotify makes excellent recommendations, youtube is doing likewise, and I am getting to enjoy some great clips along the way. Recents worth a look are Odesza's Love Letter, and a bunch from Neelix. I am setting up playlists in youtube as well as spotify, though with youtube I find it harder to have it in the background as I want to watch it as well.

 

All they do is change the bit rate to lure you in. been using Iheart for years and its free.
And rip CD's onto my USB.

 

Each of the platforms chooses its own ways to lure users. YouTube's recommendations don't always match what you've been searching for, but they do show something similar.

 

I've tried both and prefer Spotify, but I think that's a personal choice. However, I do notice an improvement in sound quality with Spotify versus radio or my own pre-recorded music whether through blue tooth or flash memory drive.

 

My get with spotify lately has been that the daily playlist have not been updating. I've had the same damn daily playlists for weeks.

 

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