What do you use for a music source on your phone?

[barronj]

I've been using Pandora on my Iphone, which sucks, I think. While I'm not asking for the radio versions of songs (ie rap, where lyrics get explicit), I don't want the live version, which is 50% of what Pandora offers.

I've just bought a bluetooth receiver (infinity prv250, and 4 kicker marine 6.5's; debating on amp) for my bay boat, and I want to have good music options.

Token pics of boat:

[bonnie&clyde]

I use pandora, u just have to select the right artist for the genre

[71chevellejohn]

There is a setting for explicit lyrics. Not sure there's much you can do about the live tracks.

[barronj]

I use pandora, u just have to select the right artist for the genre

I only choose/create my stations by artist. FML, tell me there's another option.

[CexMashean]

Spotify.
And if you aren't a cheap fuck and purchase a monthly membership, they'll let you save the music to your phone so you can even play it without a data connection.
Spotify lets you use a radio feature, or build specific playlists off their collection.

https://www.spotify.com/us/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music/id324684580?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en

They're doing so good, they even have a windows mobile app

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/spotify/9wzdncrfj4wk

[BradM]

Pandora, I don't have any idea what you're talking about referring to lyrics or live music. It has never been a problem with me, I hear every studio version fuck.

[barronj]

sweet. Thanks!

[BradM]

You're welcome.

[barronj]

knew i could count on you

[BradM]

I do what I can. Ever the volunteer.

[mustang_revival]

Pandora I have tons of stations and I've heard the rotation on ever single station so many times, I literally never hear anything new on it.

I like sound cloud and youtube music , but refuse to pay. XM is what I listen to 90% of the time now since I renewed it for 20.00 for 5 months i think..

Iheartradio is good too, really its about what do want to hear?

Pandora - has well known music only, rotation is repetative.

Soundcloud - You won't find every artist on here, but some artists have tons of stuff and people have interesting playlists. I actually have a couple of likes on a few of my playlists I just discovered a week or so ago, so you can look at those peoples playlists and go down a rabbit hole of music discovery. Also good for workout music and party background music.

iheartradio - sometime the reception for me is spotty but a buddy swears by this app. I hate ads so that is super annoying to listen to "normal" radio. Other than that very solid.

Youtube music - for some of the artist I like, theres different playlists that show up here vs. normal youtube app. This is still newish to me so Im still discovering new content, but I've also exhausted a few artists playlist, (so discovered all the music there displayed) but I've heard some new things not so obvious on regular youtube doing the same exact search.

A buddy has been using spotify forever as magnus suggested would be worth looking into too, I don't know what its strengths are over the others..

Really you just need a mix. Some are lighter on bandwidth than others which may help while rocking around on your boat.

[soap]

[Torinoman]

I currently use Slacker. I suspect it works similar to Pandora but I got rid of that shit due to all the ads so it may have changed. Slacker is pretty good, you get 6 skips an hour and a diverse selection but it can be repetitive

[abecx]

If you have amazon prime ( get it ), you get access to a shit load of songs.

[Scott Mc]

I use slacker and it is well worth the 10 buck a month for no commercials.