Re: [slim] The Automation of Selling Out

2017-12-11 Thread Grumpy Bob
I find the role of Spotify (and other streaming services) quite interesting in a generational sort of way. I grew up in an era when finding music could be quite a challenge, particularly when one was interested in rather 'alternative' genres. I do have a premium Spotify subscription, but I use it

Re: [slim] The Automation of Selling Out

2017-12-11 Thread castalla
SlimChances wrote: > https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly > > I could never understand the allure of services of Spotify which seem to > spoon feed listeners rather than encouraging them to make the effort to > research and find music on their own; through friends,

[slim] The Automation of Selling Out

2017-12-11 Thread SlimChances
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly I could never understand the allure of services of Spotify which seem to spoon feed listeners rather than encouraging them to make the effort to research and find music on their own; through friends, concerts, searching music stores etc.

Re: [slim] Pandora Plus still working with LMS these days?

2017-12-11 Thread marco79cgn
I'm using Pandora Premium. Since it's officially not available in my country, I'm using a SmartDNS service to bypass the geo ip restrictions. Besides that, no issues. marco79cgn's Profile:

Re: [slim] Latest Plex updates Music features

2017-12-11 Thread SamS
Peter Galbavy wrote: > I generally use LMS for music and Plex for video material but I have and > do use Plex for certain music applications; A number of personal > observations: > > People making comparisons between the scanners have simply not set > things up right in the first place. On the

Re: [slim] Latest Plex updates Music features

2017-12-11 Thread d6jg
Peter Galbavy wrote: > I generally use LMS for music and Plex for video material but I have and > do use Plex for certain music applications; A number of personal > observations: > > People making comparisons between the scanners have simply not set > things up right in the first place. On the

Re: [slim] Latest Plex updates Music features

2017-12-11 Thread Peter Galbavy
Having said all that I am also running Emby - which is much slower on scanning music, and I've never actually used it to play music. Peter Galbavy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32718 View this

Re: [slim] Latest Plex updates Music features

2017-12-11 Thread Peter Galbavy
I generally use LMS for music and Plex for video material but I have and do use Plex for certain music applications; A number of personal observations: People making comparisons between the scanners have simply not set things up right in the first place. On the same hardware looking at the same