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The iBoring Music device

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Jesus, my music options have turned to shit now that I have an iphone. I used to constantly listen to internet radio all day long. There are thousands of stations out there with free music I have never heard. I love that. I like not having to have the responsibility of making playlists and organizing music or syncing or buying anything, or even thinking about space for storage.

It is a tragic change in my music listening habits - no shoutcast, no pandora and my be the nail in the coffin for the iphone for me until the 3g iphone comes out.

My music collection is so minimal because I have been doing this for years but now my current phone du jour cannot do streaming radio. I would even settle for rhapsody service although it isn't free. Unfortunately, even the apps people hacked for streaming radio are too slow and buffer all the time.

Its really something to think about if you are an streaming radio lover who is used to evdo/hspda speeds and unlimited accessibility in your mobile browser. Maybe I am the only one that applies to, but I don't think so.

I mean I can see why apple would gimp free streaming radio - it competes with sales for songs on itunes.

I truly like the form factor of the iphone but as I said before not having browser based file uploads really inhibits me from blogging with it too and not having cut/copy/paste irritates the hell out of me. Why, Why, Why?!
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💬 3 comments

  1. drew ·

    yeah, as I mentioned in a "10 things" list, I really like pandora.
  2. ladycroft ·

    I miss pandora too. I can't use it over here :(
  3. dcoffee ·

    Thanks for telling me about Pandora, just tried it, put in "Violent Femmes" and have been content for the past hour. That sucks you can't get it on the iPhone. I know what you mean about downloading burning and organizing, it's a pain. Lately I've organized my iPod's Genres a little better, it's like a kind-of playlist, except much bigger, and sometimes you get surprise songs. The iPhone is slick though, what a sweet interface, I'm jealous.

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