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Just as. FYI. If you do activate radio service, you also get free streaming as well for your phone etc. Also if you have a google nest music device or a Alexa product, you can also stream on that once you connect your Sirius account to it. For example… you can say. "Hey google play Sirius XM channel (say the number or the station name)' and it will play it. It's super good .
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The bitrate is about 64 kbps for music and 32 kbps for talk on Sirius.
The bitrate on Spotify HIFI/Tidal Masters is 320 kbps CD quality for lossless audio.
Use an app, connect a cable, and ditch the garbage audio of Sirius. (FM radio is 96 kbps)
The bitrate is probably somewhere between 24–48 kbps depending if the AAC variant is based on v1 or v2 of the HE codec. The sample rate of the played back audio is likely 32 kHz or 44.1 kHz which will yield 16–22 kHz of audio bandwidth.
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1. They removed the only channels/genres I'd listen to.
2. It's a pain to cancel.
3. Low quality sound
1. They removed the only channels/genres I'd listen to.
2. It's a pain to cancel.
3. Low quality sound
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This time they closed the dal for me…I will NEVER subscribe to their service.
If you know your radio id# you can just put in fake info and get it that way, I've had free Sirius in my work car for almost 3 years now lol. A whole bunch of whole foods stores are getting spam mail from Sirius because of me.
I had XM radio in a new vehicle, way back before the two companies merged. And it was pretty decent. Lots of music, no commercials, just the occasional station identification. If S/XM was like that now, I might consider signing up for service.
But it seems that ever since the merger, they have concentrated more on having DJ's that talk too much about stuff I have no interest in (hey, if I wanted talk radio, I'd dial in an AM station!), or talking about what's playing on their other channels....and if I wanted to listen to that channel, it would be one of my pre-set stations!
Adding to that, when you DO want to sign up for service, in order to get it at a reasonable price, you have to go through the whole phone call thing, every 6 to 12 months. Because someone at S/XM seems to think their service is worth way more than it is....but hey, we'll give you a SPECIAL DEAL, for 6 months. Then make you spend a half hour on the phone, threatening to cancel, before they, in the kindness of their hearts, give you another 6 months at that same price. Used to be, that you could pay ONCE, for lifetime service in a vehicle. But they killed that. Probably because they wanted to keep those service reps busy, trying to talk you into keeping your overpriced service.
Thanks for the deal, and take advantage of it, if you can. Then CANCEL.
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