music What music software do you use ?

[NightOwl 912]

Hey everypony! 

 

What music software do you use the most iTunes or Spotify ? 

 

For a long time I used iTunes to listen and buy my music and sync it to my iPhone but I'm gradually replacing it with spotify because it's a lot nicer to use in my opinion. 

 

Which software do you use and why ?

 

 

Edited May 5, 2013 by NightOwl

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Well I've always used iTunes to buy my music, but lately, Spotify seems very tempting...

 

People have been telling me to get Spotify Premium, so I don't know what to do now :/

[Bugz 159]

If you even accidentally click iTunes icon, you have to wait 10 years for it to open.

 

Spotify has those lovely ads.

 

I use neither. But if I have to choose, i would use spotify.

[Le Kvlt Dawn 2,364]

I'm going with iTunes, you can rip CDs with it and you can listen to your music with out those pesky adds. Although, I do like the radio feature on Spotify.

[Estella 88]

For the longest time, I've used iTunes, and I just recently started hearing about Spotify, but from what I've heard, Spotify seems a bit more interesting and easy to use.

[Darth Fader 24]

Both.  I can't have Spotify Premium just now, I need to watch the pounds going out since I don't currently work.  There's also Rdio and WE7. 

 

Now Spotify being free on my netbook but if I want to use it on my iPad i have to have a premium subscription, yet my iPad has a larger screen.  What justifies that?

[NightOwl 912]

Updated the poll and added "both" because people seem to use both. 

 

Another thing I like about Spotify is the high quality streaming witch apparently is in 320kbps

[Scootalove 10,689]

I used to use iTunes on all of the products that I bought from Apple ©. But, I currently use Spotify even though I didn't buy Spotify Premium yet, but the only thing I hate about Spotify is the excessive advertisements. Other then that, it is a good deal.

[Pony Joe 583]

I absolutely despise iTunes.  I don't really care for Spotify either, but it seems like iTunes has some sort of personal agenda to make me hate it.

 

Selling DRMed music in 2013, running slowly on Windows machines, absolutely ridiculous song and movie prices, making updating to the latest version a hassle, and somehow brainwashing everyone into thinking that they're the best place to buy music online are only a few of iTunes' crimes against music listeners.  Nowadays I buy my music from Amazon (or, when I can, the artists' own websites) and use Windows Media Player to listen to it.  It's a great, lightweight program to play your music with and, best of all, there's no file-copying required!  Sadly I still have to use iTunes to sync my iPod, but I have a dream that one day a device will be judged not by the company it represents, but the music within.

 

So, uh, yeah.  I guess Spotify wins by default?

[Thrashy 2,800]

I use iTunes simply as a general music player, never to buy their DRM-protected crap. (I prefer owning a physical copy of an album anyway, if for no other reason than having artwork and lyrics.) Although given the choice, I generally prefer Winamp over iTunes, even if it IS a total dinosaur.

 

Spotify rubs me the wrong way with all the ads. I understand that every free service needs a way to stay free outside of charging for memberships (I opt to enable ads on this site, for example, because they are non-intrusive and I want to support the site). But the bottom line is that if you can't at least try to make your intrusive ads actually...you know, relevant to the interests of the users, then I ain't gonna take it.

 

It's kind of the same reason I use adblock on YouTube; if you're going to repeatedly shove the same unfunny, brain dead commercial in my face trying to get me to buy some Chevy mini van - a type of vehicle that YOU COULDN'T EVEN PAY ME TO DRIVE FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE - then I'ma block yer ads. Mad, bro? Well, tough titteh.

 

tl;dr - Winamp>iTunes>Spotify as far as players are concerned; CDs>iTunes Store

[IronPuddinG 249]

I use Spotify Free with a 3rd part program called Blockify.  It mutes all the ads and (if you choose to) you can play a song from your hard drive instead.  Although, I prefer silence while the ad plays.  I don't really like having to store a bunch of music on my hard drive, so that's one of the main appeals to Spotify for me.  Plus, as others have said, iTunes loads retardedly slow on anything that isn't a Mac.

[Freewave 1,145]

Itunes because i own the musiic i play. I guess a PAndora vs Sptify poll would have been a buit more of an even matchup. Yuppppp

[RippedOffMattress 314]

Both. Spotify is fucking amazing. All I have to do is just deal some ads here and there. Although sometimes, it doesn't have the music I was looking for. (they have almost jack shit from I See Stars) ITunes is also pretty handy to get music from.

 

Either that or Amazon.

[Gay Bird 421]

I just use iTunes to listen to music, I never buy stuff there. I usually just buy the CD. If I have to buy something online I try to get a FLAC file. I don't even know what Spotify is.

[Harmonic Revelations 8,836]

I use Windows Media Center because I'm too lazy to wait ten million years for iTunes to open and I don't at all feel like dealing with Spotify's annoying ads, so there is that.

Edited May 5, 2013 by Harmonic Revelations

[Zygen 6,066]

Well I listen to my music normally on spotify when I have access to a computer, but If I'm on my iPod away from a computer then obviously I'll just use my music from iTunes.

 

I don't have premium, and probaly won't get it simply because I'm kinda cheap I guess.

 

The one thing that does kinda bother me is that some of the songs i like aren't even on spotify, thankfully I can listen to songs in my iTunes on spotify, which is why I listen to it whenever im at home and I can.

 

Otherwise iTunes is my mobile option.

[Twiliscael 3,961]

I use all of the big 4: iTunes, Spotify, Windows Media Player, and Foobar.

 

iTunes is good because you can purchase music right from it, and easily get it onto your iPod. However, I find the simplistic design to be a massive negative when you have over 3,000 songs, 100s of artists, 100s of album, and so forth. Alot of annoying scrolling and clicking.

 

Spotify is nice because, well, free music. It has probably 85% of the artists I listen to and those that they don't have I can listen to on iTunes or import them over. What's nice about Spotify is that you can listen to music for free and it has a radio features. Also, you can import your iTunes music to it so you can have all of your music in one collection. The fact that it plays in higher quality than iTunes is a definitive plus, too.

 

Windows Media Player is good for listening to random audio files without opening up a true music program.

 

Foobar. There's a single benefit to Foobar, That benefit is the ability to play FLACs. This means that you get the absolute highest quality sound. Besides this, it's clunky and awkward in design and music doesn't play automatically. You have to specifically click on the song you want to hear once the previous one is complete. Not to mention that the menus and dropdowns and all of that get quite pesky for the hands and the eyes.

Edited May 5, 2013 by Twiliscael

[NightOwl 912]

Updated this thread again to a nicer title because people use different types of software other then iTunes and Spotify .

 

 

 

People have been telling me to get Spotify Premium, so I don't know what to do now :/

 

 

You should try out spotify it's like 10$ for premium witch is great value compared to iTunes I think. 

[The Milkman 186]

I don't like iTunes.

Spotify is banned in my country.

Windows Media Player is bad.

Winamp master race, i use it all the time and i never have any problems.

[Scootaloodle 1,623]

I use Windows Media Player, it's free and I find it easy to use and play my music with, and to adjust EQ and what have you which I don't do often. I dislike I-Tunes and although I have Spotify I never use it

[uuunph 288]

On 2013-05-05 at 4:20 PM, Twiliscael said:

Foobar. There's a single benefit to Foobar, That benefit is the ability to play FLACs. This means that you get the absolute highest quality sound. Besides this, it's clunky and awkward in design and music doesn't play automatically. You have to specifically click on the song you want to hear once the previous one is complete. Not to mention that the menus and dropdowns and all of that get quite pesky for the hands and the eyes.

Pretty much every decent, modern media player supports FLAC decoding. If not, then there's usually a third party plugin available. The only ones that I know don't come with the inbuilt ability to decode FLAC are WMP and iTunes. Neither would be "decent".

Edited April 20 by uuunph

[Betez 1,734]

I use media player for music I've downloaded, and I use iTunes for music I've bought on my iPod/iPhone. I haven't used Spotify, I'm just not real fond of the idea.

[Abstract 832]

My music is sourced from either CD's, or downloaded from various sources. I use Clementine to manage it all; I find the interface much more intuitive than iTunes, Songbird, WMP, etc.