3rd Party Music Services
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3rd Party Music Services
Explanation:
Your Squeezecenter, Squeezebox, Duet, Controller, and Transporter can all use various 3rd party Music Services in various ways. This Article is an attempt to explain how and where they are used, and associated costs if any.
Definition:
A music service is defined as a portal via which a user can listen to audio of some type. This portal may or may not be free, and may or may not create the actual content. eg. Shoutcast is the portal, but is not the content creator for the stations you can listen to via it.
Known Services:
Here is a list of included services as of 4/20/09:
| Name | Description | Cost | Membership | Built in to SC? | Built in to SN? | Built in to SBs and Trans? | Built in to SBR? | Restrictions |
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Classical.com | Description needed | ? | Login required | Yes | ||||
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Deezer | Description needed | Free | Login required | No | Europe only? | |||
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Last.fm Audioscrobbler | Description needed | Free | Login required | ? | ||||
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Last.fm Radio | Description needed | Free/Subscription | Login required | Yes? | ||||
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Live music archive | Description needed | Free | N/A | No? | ||||
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Live365 | Description needed | Free/Subscription | Login required | Yes | ||||
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Mediafly | Description needed | Free | Login required | Yes | ||||
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MP3Tunes music locker | Description needed | ? | ? | Yes | ||||
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MusicIP | Don't know if this belongs in this list - if so, also include iTunes. | Free/limited to n songs in a mix. | N/A | No | ||||
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Napster | Description needed | ? | Login required | Yes | ||||
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Pandora | Description needed | ? | Login required | Yes | ||||
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RadioIO | Description needed | ? | Login required | Yes | ||||
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RadioTime | Description needed | ? | ? | Yes | ||||
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Rhapsody | Description needed | ? | ? | Yes | ||||
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Shoutcast | Description needed | ? | ? | No? | ||||
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Sirius | Description needed | ? | ? | Yes | ||||
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Slacker | Description needed | ? | ? | Yes |
Other Services provided by third-party plugins, (you download separately from SC):
Alien BBC
BBC iPlayer
Last.fm (alternative provider)
Magnatune
NPR Radio
Public Radio Fan
RadioFeeds UK & Ireland
SeeqPod
XM Radio (now Sirius?)
Totally free, NO MEMBERSHIP Req:
Live Music Archive
DI.fm (Digitally Imported) 52 stations
BBC (not all streams supported outside of UK)
ShoutCast 27,000 streams
Completely free, but requires a free membership:
RadioTime
Last.fm
Mediafly
(Streaming Services with MULTIPLE stream stations, preloaded on server menu with RadioTime free account: 1.FM 38 stations 181.FM 56 stations 1Club 70 stations .977 FM 11 stations Got Radio 48 stations Yahoo! Radio / CBS Radio 300 stations ……and others)
Also free, but additional services (beyond the free part) exist for a paid membership:
RadioIO (61 stations)
Sky.FM (40 stations)
SomaFM (14 stations)
Paid Membership normally required, some free services otherwise:
Live365
Napster (also offers a 30 day free trial)
Pandora
Slacker
Paid membership required, no free services, usually a 30 day free trial exists:
Classical.com
Rhapsody
Sirius
Misc:
Amazon CD store is a plugin that comes with SC, but isn't a music service, its a way to let you buy the CD of whatever you're listening to.
MP3tunes music locker requires that you upload your own music files.
MusicIP and iTunes are not music services.
Additional material planned for this article:
A table showing all the services and what they cost.
A definition of what makes a portal service. ie. is the service what you listen to? or how you get to it? like say the BBC stuff.
An explanation of what services come preloaded, and what don't. How to enable/disable them. Any other restrictions (minimum SC version, country restrictions, etc). Where are they located on each slim thing, be it SC, SN, SBC, SB, Transporter, what have you. Links to third-party plugin providers.
A listing of unique content for any given service.
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