The thing I find most annoying about the SiriusXM app is the 90-minute limit before it asks "are you still listening" and then cuts off. I work in an environment where I can't be by my iPod touch and constantly restart it.
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Dude. I got news for you...Pandora does this too. ALL data hungry streaming apps do this. Pandora is losing so much money, they have to do this. They are being charged per song.
Telecom companies have phased out their unlimited plans....and even those who are "grandfathered" in....if they cross a certain threshold, they have their internet speeds SLOWED down by the telecom companies.
And it's only going to get worse. Thats why i say Pandora and Slacker and the others will ALL be charging over $10 a month before too long.
But the great thing about Sirius, is that they can be listened to via satellite as well, and are not tied to this limited data stream BS.
If your phone is jailbroken, there is something that you can add via Cydia that gets rid of the nagging in the Sirius/XM app.
Even at $3.99, Slacker will have to keep raising their rates to stay viable. They will all follow Spotifies lead eventually and charge $10 or more a month.
Telecom companies are charging more and more for data streaming as well. Sirius with their satellites aren't trapped in this data streaming prison tho.
Plus Sirius offers sooooo much more for mere pennies a day. Sports, uncensored talk etc. Pandora and Slacker dont have this, and will never have this.
Even at $9 more a month, i would gladly pay for Sirius over Slacker. And mark my words, Slacker will be charging $10 sooner than u think.
Once Sirius offers a Pandora like feature where u can create your own radio stations....there will be zero reasons to choose Slacker or any of those other services....especially when they all will be charging $10 soon.
Agreed. It seems like they're programming for someone who listens for 15 minutes a week. For example, I started listening to Blues (now the merged B.B. King channel) and you start hearing the same songs over and over again. Wait a minute, this is an art form that has about 100 years of material and I'm hearing the same songs in a day?
I get they are programming to get attention, but how about a "deep" version of such channels for long duration listeners?
I usually listen to alternative and hard rock. There are many channels to choose from, but the jocks (and programmers) spread over several stations. One of my personal irritants is the high rotation of RATM -- OK I like them in small doses but they're a band that's been defunct for a decade I don't need to hear them 1 out of every 7 songs on all the rock stations.
I'm also amazed at how much Steely Dan and Rod Stewart ends up getting played on the classic rock channel. Especially the Rod Stewart. Guess what? He's not classic rock at all, he's pop.
I've had XM in one car or another since 2004. XM/Sirius has to be the worst customer service company on the planet. Their model for changing/removing services is truly maddening. What could easily be setup to be web based and allow you to make changes freely instead requires you to sit on a phone and get harassed no matter what your reasons for making a change. If you want to remove any kind of service from your account, they play the old "We need to transfer you to a cancellation center" trick, where you will then sit on hold for at LEAST an hour waiting for someone to answer, when all they are really wanting you to do is hang up. I went on a tirade one time after waiting that hour out and someone finally answering.
My wife still has the service in her car, so I tacked on the streaming subscription for another $3 a month and use the service on my phone occasionally. The app is a disaster, the service constantly stutters/stops for me (Pandora, iheart radio and a number of other music apps don't have this problem, so it's not my 3G connection...it does it on Wifi too). I just haven't had the patience to cancel it yet. My wife has a new vehicle coming with 1 year free subscription, so in a few weeks I have to cancel all of our existing service and transfer the account to the new radio with a free year. I know that will be a battle.
The one method that works for sure is canceling or letting your credit card expire and not giving them your new one. Then all of a sudden they take interest.
My wife still has the service in her car, so I tacked on the streaming subscription for another $3 a month and use the service on my phone occasionally. The app is a disaster, the service constantly stutters/stops for me (Pandora, iheart radio and a number of other music apps don't have this problem, so it's not my 3G connection...it does it on Wifi too). I just haven't had the patience to cancel it yet. My wife has a new vehicle coming with 1 year free subscription, so in a few weeks I have to cancel all of our existing service and transfer the account to the new radio with a free year. I know that will be a battle.
The one method that works for sure is canceling or letting your credit card expire and not giving them your new one. Then all of a sudden they take interest.
I understand the concerns with data streaming, etc.; but I am using the SiriusXM app on an iPod Touch (actually, my old iPhone without a telecom plan) thru Internet via WiFi. This shouldn't be an issue in this case, or am I mistaken?
I love my sirius in my car (lifetime plan) and through internet on my iPhone (grandfathered unlimited data) and on my sonos speakers at home. Then again I only listen to out q, sirius left, and on broadway so there is no other choice for me.
Now if they would just remove that so called "Inactivity Timeout" I would be happy. That is the most annoying part of this app and the previous app.
I cancelled XM when they gutted all their good music in late 2008. I remember having to argue with the lady for like 15 minutes when I called to cancel that NO, I liked you for your diverse music, not Howard Stern. Anyways, other services like Pandora totally leave XM/Sirius in the dust. Pretty much 85-90% of the US population is well within 3G data coverage; we aren't all long haul truck drivers. Plus if I know I'm going to be out in the boonies, then I can download 100 hours of podcasts in advance.
Xm/Sirius dragged their feet with providing on-line access to their content. And then in the merger they worsened much of their content. How many years after the release of the iPhone did they finally make an app available? Most people gave up on Xm/Sirius, moved on to Pandora, and now have no desire to look back. Xm/Sirius fills a teeny, tiny niche at best. I hadn't even thought of Xm in probably 18 months before seeing this recent thread.
I'm still a subscriber but I want to air some grievances. I have a memory, you know.
Anyone remember StarPlayr? They made an iPhone app (jailbreak iirc) long before Sirius decided to. Even went legit and were waiting for approval from the app store and then got torpedoed by Sirius after months of waiting for word from Apple. Then the Sirius app finally comes out much later (6-9 months iirc) and no Howard Stern or NFL.
Very frustrated, the quality of the programming has definitely gone downhill.