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POLL: Is JRiver Streaming Interesting?

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antenna:
I just wanted to add a reason for my "haven't had time to try" answer in the poll...

I'm pretty busy of late digitizing vinyl and that's taking up most, if not all, of my music time nowadays.

I do think that Cloudplay is a great idea, I've uploaded a playlist or two, and I do plan to start listening once I get past this current project.  :)

syndromeofadown:
Cloudplay/Radio is both interesting and useful.

I plan on uploading more playlists but I keep getting side tracked. Every time I make a playlist there are mp3 files that I know I have a FLAC version of, which has started me on a re-rip mission. A lot of my art was added over 10 years ago and is of awful quality, which has started me on an art updating mission. Shouldn't be too much longer until I start uploading again.

I haven't really found anything new or interesting on Cloudplay but I also own a mental amount of music so it's rare I find something I like that isn't in my collection. I don't find spotify, tidal, etc useful for finding new music either.

Where I have used Cloudplay the most is at friends houses that have MC. They don't have massive collections and are always looking for something different. I believe they all use it as much as any other service. If I didn't sign them up I doubt they would have noticed it though. I also doubt they would ever donate.

Making more radio stations I think would be beneficial. Most people I know have satellite radio and listen to it regularly. I swear each station plays about 15 songs in a continuous loop. Those that play new music probably add 1 song a week to the loop. This would be very easy to replicate. Amazon's free (maybe free with Prime) streaming stations follow the same formula.

Something that stops me from using Cloudplay is the fact that it's lossless. I appreciate the quality but I can't justify using 300MB of internet to listen to 10 songs when I can use that 300MB to download an album that I can listen to over and over for the rest of my life. If there was an option to convert it to 256 mp3 I could use it more. I am probably in the minority with my bandwidth limitations but it would be interesting to know if there are others.

BigCat:
OK, I have taken more time to look at this. It was a little confusing at first, but you quickly figure it out. Sure, there could be some additional development, but as long as we support it, you know that will happen. It is good for discovery.

It has a lot of potential. Thanks for doing this. Definitely interesting.

And all of you that have put up the playlists! That is cool!

herr_schneider:
Voted "moderately" - Radio is of no interest to me, CloudPlay could be a burner if it was possible to use it while being connected to a server, having mixed playlists of tracks on server and tracks "from the cloud". Currently only works while connected to local library...

Screwdriver:
Enjoying the Cloudplay except I wish users would name their playlists better. Found some music I never heard.

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