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Using Spotify makes you realize why being a DJ is an actual job that takes talent. I use it to listen to music, obviously, but going to your liked songs and trying to play them on shuffle is a laughably stupid endeavor.

 

98.9 is a good station in Austin that still uses live DJs. It is mostly very good.

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Remember when we heard a song in the radio and liked it.. we had to drive 15 minutes to Best Buy and pay 15 dollars for a CD that maybe had 2 more good songs on it? Then on the way home you're jammin and you hit a pothole and the MF skips? 

I agree Spotify sucks.

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If I may…I’m growing tired of Sirius XM. 


Sirius has the same problem as radio in that it’s the same 50 songs on repeat. There are a few channels that don’t have this problem. First Wave is great for ‘78-‘88 new wave, post punk, and indie-ish of that era. Deep Tracks and Classic Vinyl are solid.

The one that pisses me off is Lithium. So much potential but it’s the same 10 bands about 99% of the time.

I did use Spotify to build a 2,000+ song playlist of Gen X music: grunge, industrial, trip hop, indie, college rock, alt rock, Brit pop, post punk, post new wave, local scene, etc. I went really deep into the related artists tab to add a bunch of bands I’d never heard before but were from the same ‘80-‘99 era.
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On 1/28/2023 at 12:26 PM, Pam Cummings said:

Using Spotify makes you realize why being a DJ is an actual job that takes talent. I use it to listen to music, obviously, but going to your liked songs and trying to play them on shuffle is a laughably stupid endeavor.

 

98.9 is a good station in Austin that still uses live DJs. It is mostly very good.

Thanks. 
Unfortunately, I don’t live in Austin. 
I’m in the DFW-area where radio flat out sucks. It’s the only thing keeping me subscribed to Sirius XM.

 

 

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On 1/28/2023 at 8:55 PM, Deej said:

KUTX is great. Guy who used to work for me is a DJ there, now. 

 

 

 

 

Big fan of KUTX... always something good to hear.  Have a Sun Radio DJ in our hood... another one.  Austin radio is excellent... lots of options.  Houston was very meh.  

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On 1/28/2023 at 1:26 PM, Pam Cummings said:

Using Spotify makes you realize why being a DJ is an actual job that takes talent.

Everytime I hear a DJ it reminds me I hate DJs. Shut the fuck up and play music.

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On 1/29/2023 at 8:25 AM, CooterBrown said:

 


Sirius has the same problem as radio in that it’s the same 50 songs on repeat. There are a few channels that don’t have this problem. First Wave is great for ‘78-‘88 new wave, post punk, and indie-ish of that era. Deep Tracks and Classic Vinyl are solid.

The one that pisses me off is Lithium. So much potential but it’s the same 10 bands about 99% of the time.

I did use Spotify to build a 2,000+ song playlist of Gen X music: grunge, industrial, trip hop, indie, college rock, alt rock, Brit pop, post punk, post new wave, local scene, etc. I went really deep into the related artists tab to add a bunch of bands I’d never heard before but were from the same ‘80-‘99 era.

 

First Wave and XMU are the two stations I spend almost all of my time with. XMU can be a bit repetitive for sure.

 

19 hours ago, NTVTXN said:

Thanks. 
Unfortunately, I don’t live in Austin. 
I’m in the DFW-area where radio flat out sucks. It’s the only thing keeping me subscribed to Sirius XM.

 

 

KXT is pretty good. Nice variety of genres too. I don't listen to any terrestrial DFW radio except The Ticket, KXT with an occasional foray over to The Freak.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

First Wave

First Wave comes and goes I find.

 

I listen to the 70s through 90s mostly, with Beatles, Underground Garage, Mosaic, E Street all honorable mentions, and a fair chunk of Classic Vinyl/Rewind and the Spectrum. I'll wander down to Ozzy and Hair Nation every now and again.

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I actually.... don't always find it super simple to bounce around in the "personalized for you" type playlists on Spotify, but I do think that they are fairly decent for giving you a bunch of different flavors of "songs that you have liked with some other similar songs mixed in". I think Spotify is much better if you spend time exploring, which I tend to do by bouncing around to specific artists as well as listening to "artist radio" for when I want to find similar things.

 

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there's both not a ton of range in there and not a ton of range there. probably ammo to roast me as well but this kind of mix of mixes in addition to the artist radio stations and stuff like release radar, not bad. I also sometimes have decent luck with Spotify managed playlists if I can find one whose description matches the vibe I'm going for but may contain a bunch of shit I've never heard.

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i blame both of those on being a dad

nada surf is a weird one - both "Let Go" and "Lucky" are albums I visit every so often but I don't know when the last time I did thatwas.

That 4*Town song is actually kinda great. I think Billy EIlish wrote it (this is from Disny/Pixar's "Turning Red") and it's a really great 2000s era boy band song. The lyric is "Never met nobody, like you", the 22 month old has latched on to that movie and sings "No potty, achoo".

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On 1/30/2023 at 11:30 AM, C-Man said:

First Wave and XMU are the two stations I spend almost all of my time with. XMU can be a bit repetitive for sure.

 

KXT is pretty good. Nice variety of genres too. I don't listen to any terrestrial DFW radio except The Ticket, KXT with an occasional foray over to The Freak.

Agreed. KXT is pretty good And I do listen on KUTX when we’re in town for games. 
I guess I just wish I was in college again…LOL and I didn’t even got to UT.

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Put me in the pro Spotify camp. Not sure how having a giant portion of the music from planet earth available right there on your phone can suck.

I keep Shazam as bottom right app on my phone to quickly nab random songs I hear on radio, movies, parties, etc and dig that it integrates straight to a dedicated Spotify list for easy relistening.

And I’ll happily pay $10 a month for Sirius to avoid commercials when in the car. I spin between XMU 35 down to Beatles at like 17. Such a diverse span in between. Plus the comedy and live sports.

The best of what I find via digital tees up select vinyl for what I really want to own.

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Currently using TIDAL. The app sucks. But my main listening station, my computer, has a sound system good enough that I can actually hear the quality difference.

If I were to switch to anything, I'd probably switch to Apple Music, since it's the only streaming service left that lets you upload your own music. And I say this as an Android and Windows user.

Spotify has the best app by far, though. I'm not as fond of their business practices or their audio quality.

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New “DJ” feature is… alright I think. From the Home Screen, click the music bubble up top and it’ll be right there. It takes you through some micro playlists and introduces each one. It still doesn’t understand that I don’t want Disney stuff unless I explicitly ask for it but it played some new stuff and some stuff that I know but haven’t listened to in a bit.

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