Until this moment no service convinced me to change my 10-year-old habit of buy/download the music, organize the tags and put it on my mobile device. Since I bought my first iPod until today with my Nexus S I am still doing this and it is very practical to me.
My thoughts exactly. I can buy a cd, rip to flac / mp3, listen to the mp3's everywhere mobile, and flac in my home theater or on my nice headphones. All of the cd's I buy still costs me less than some subscription service.
One service I liked a lot was eMusic. I'm not sure what they are like now, but I got a lot of high quality MP3s for relatively little cost, due to the subscription pricing.
It's not like Spotify in terms of listening as much as you want, but once you get tired of the service, you at least have a collection of music rather than nothing.
Yes, but you could listen to more music for the same price. Even if there are only 2 new albums I want to listen to a month, it's break-even to get an rdio/mog/spotify subscription vs. buying the albums.
Try Audiogalaxy - it might be what you've been looking for. It's still your music, just available everywhere without uploading to any server and without ads. http://www.audiogalaxy.com (Discl: I work on it)
I liked it, and I definitely would use it if my 3G connection was more reliable. Here in Brazil it is still quite slow and many times it does not work at all.
