Since I am a bit slack I really don't have much of a music collection,
I really do like the Radio Station "Hot Country Radio" Darwin 92.3FM
The problem is, in Darwin their transmission is really poor.. and the Radio Station even has dead spots in Darwin.
With this Country music listing I found myself liking Artists like
Lachlan Bryan
Kasey Chambers
Peter Denahy
Sara Storer
etc
etc
Now just a few Klms out of town no music.
I have been experimenting with a trail of JBhifo "now" service
https://now.jbhifi.com.au/ and thinking maybe taking it up for 12 months for a $100 -- The idea with a Android device I will offline the music that I like, and keep sort of upto date with my music and give myself a instant collection that I like, and have good music through my travels
What I have found so far experimenting with the service, it works O.K. with a Android phone Samsung S4 the
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.jbhifi.now.android maybe a touch buggy -- the music quality is very good, to get the best I have setup what they call mixes, I actually use my PC to setup the mixes, then I just connect with the phone, and the phone will update the mix on it self and download the music .. I did find it very confusing to work out if the phone is actually downloading the music, but once enabled it's rather quick to download the music, so far I have about 600 meg of music offlined on the phone.
I have found that I can use my car stereo tablet
What I
do not like with the way that the service works ..
- It appears to only auth by using Facebook credentials -- my facebook password is quite long and a pain to type in the phone.
- When using a android device get into the play queue is done by a little button top right hand screen -- that is a bit of a pain and the play queue doe not automatically startup
- The JBhi Now App is not so tablet ready and only starts up in portrait mode -- that was a pain on my car stereo device that runs Android -- Did manage a work around by using an external to force the application to run on landscape mode.
- The search function on their web site sucks a bit, for instance I accidentally typed in Sara Stora -- it found nothing
- On the PC I don'e appear to be able to add a whole music album to a mix -- and the shuffle it a bit confusing
With all of this I am still considering the service, but I am also looking at the alternatives like "Google Play Music All Access", "Spotify"
Does anyone know of a better service like JBhi now music, or any other suggestion on how I may achieve my objective?
