Recently got a new car that has a Sirius trial subscription. After everything I’ve heard about it, actually using it is shockingly disappointing. There is so little content on it, and what’s there isn’t any good. I guess maybe their target customer is someone who wants Fox News and right wing pod casts in their car. I won’t be signing up, especially with what a pain I’ve heard it is to cancel once they have your payment info.
I had a similar experience. The 80s and 90s stations played the same top 25 songs on loop, just so we could feel the nostalgia of clear channel buying all the stations and overplaying the shit out of whatever the song of the month was.
Don’t forget about the shitty audio quality. No frequencies above 12kHz are audible. We had better fidelity in the 1970s.
And yes, leaving is a pain. If you manage to cancel, they will harass you for years. It took four years for them to finally stop flooding my mailbox with letters begging me to come back. For a car I didn’t even own anymore. Four years was literally two cars later.
That was what really shocked me. After finally having satellite radio incidentally, the audio was the worst digital artufacts I had heard in any vaguely credible audio. I’m one of those people who can’t tell it’s a 128 kbit mp3 and even I couldn’t stand the satellite codecs…
Maybe it will make a comeback, but not if they keep calling it radio. It needs to be something like curated playlists or something, and the curators need to be creators or critics. People with knowledge of music, not people that know their way around a well timed fart slide whistle.
And no commercials. Like, at all. Fuck it, who am I kidding. That isn’t going to happen.
Then he turned into an elderly Jewish woman.
Satellite radio is fixing to take off any second now! The boom is coming!
Recently got a new car that has a Sirius trial subscription. After everything I’ve heard about it, actually using it is shockingly disappointing. There is so little content on it, and what’s there isn’t any good. I guess maybe their target customer is someone who wants Fox News and right wing pod casts in their car. I won’t be signing up, especially with what a pain I’ve heard it is to cancel once they have your payment info.
I had a similar experience. The 80s and 90s stations played the same top 25 songs on loop, just so we could feel the nostalgia of clear channel buying all the stations and overplaying the shit out of whatever the song of the month was.
Don’t forget about the shitty audio quality. No frequencies above 12kHz are audible. We had better fidelity in the 1970s.
And yes, leaving is a pain. If you manage to cancel, they will harass you for years. It took four years for them to finally stop flooding my mailbox with letters begging me to come back. For a car I didn’t even own anymore. Four years was literally two cars later.
That was what really shocked me. After finally having satellite radio incidentally, the audio was the worst digital artufacts I had heard in any vaguely credible audio. I’m one of those people who can’t tell it’s a 128 kbit mp3 and even I couldn’t stand the satellite codecs…
Maybe it will make a comeback, but not if they keep calling it radio. It needs to be something like curated playlists or something, and the curators need to be creators or critics. People with knowledge of music, not people that know their way around a well timed fart slide whistle.
And no commercials. Like, at all. Fuck it, who am I kidding. That isn’t going to happen.
Siriusly! Any day now.