KVR Audio

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Wed Jun 22, 2016 6:28 am

Complete turnabout!

I'll wait to the bump to explain.....

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:31 am

Ok, so I thought "slacker" was the deal with my LG 5G, and I'll not waste time going into that......

But "slacker" now for some reason has this "leslie" effect going on frequently. Can't understand why I didn't hear it before, I usually notice these things straight away. BTW, my "quality" settings are on the best

... doesn't matter. Btw, I noticed this mostly on my PC and then today for some reason on the android

Ok, they suck, blah. Then I've heard of "pandora" and even their "pay" version seems to have severe restrictions on what I can do. Not terrible, but not sold on them (I hear a difference on playback)

So, is there anything that is good? Non-leslie? Non-terrible mp3 type? I want variety. I'll pay for quality

Kinda new to this

Data rates seem to be an issue too.

emcee · Post by **emcee** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:06 am

slacker = https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... adio&hl=en ??

Um, I personally when I get the opportunity to listen to streamed stuff go to RadioTunes - don't judge me

But I just go the free one and persevere through the ads - you get em with FM radio anyway.

If chewing through data is an issue I did hear of the LG Stylues that had a digital radio built in - so no data usage but again limited to local stations, albeit more than on the usual FM dial..

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:19 am

Slacker Radio for their iOS application launched support on June 3rd 2015 for 320 Kbps streaming to paid subscribers.

You're not on iOS but Android. You might not be a paying customer. So your bitrate could be 96kbps instead of 320kbps. That could explain the Leslie effect (poor quality)

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:14 pm

emcee wrote:slacker = https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... adio&hl=en ??

Um, I personally when I get the opportunity to listen to streamed stuff go to RadioTunes - don't judge me
But I just go the free one and persevere through the ads - you get em with FM radio anyway.

If chewing through data is an issue I did hear of the LG Stylues that had a digital radio built in - so no data usage but again limited to local stations, albeit more than on the usual FM dial..

thanks!

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:17 pm

BertKoor wrote:
Slacker Radio for their iOS application launched support on June 3rd 2015 for 320 Kbps streaming to paid subscribers.
You're not on iOS but Android. You might not be a paying customer. So your bitrate could be 96kbps instead of 320kbps. That could explain the Leslie effect (poor quality)

How odd. Yeah, I have the middle account (3.99 mo.) and the "quality" switch does nothing.

I'm not getting the leslie effect from pandora though. Maybe I'll try the "upgrade" since it's not a long binding contract and they say the paid version is "better" (we never really know what that means)

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:48 am

This gets weirder and weirder to me.

Though some of you will agree, I think I'm just living in the matrix and the computer f**ks are f**king with me.

Now, I hear it quite often. I don't hear it on the free Pandora, but it's weaker in other areas.

Guess now, it's like vst's and hosts

There IS no perfect one and it's a matter of trying them all and figuring it out. Random searches sure as hell don't help.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:52 pm

I'm puzzled a bit here about what you're really looking for. Do you mean an app for local radio stations, or for internet radio stations? If the latter is what you're looking for, check out the TuneIn app, or Audials. And, if you like electronic, or dance music, check out DI.fm app, it's teh bestest.

But maybe i got something wrong, and this is not at all what you're looking for.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:55 am

I'm talking about companies that have your favorite songs. Pandora, slacker, etc.

Genre is completely unimportant but if I want "Phantogram" I want it to have something.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:04 am

Hmmmmmmmm.

Even Pandora, and Amazon have the "phasey/leslie" effect with some songs.

I don't get it, and neither do they.

Desktop/phone/same.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:30 am

What part of "low bit rate artefacts" don't you get?

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:53 am

It's the same songs "bro"

But, hey, we've at this a while, hun?

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:27 am

I listen and listen, most of it sounds great. Then comes band "x" with their crazy leslie's......

Android phone "radio" stations.......