Been listening to Sonic Tap "8-Tracks" for about two weeks now. Whoever is in charge of programming obviously wasn't even alive during the late 60s and early 70s because they only play a fraction all the great songs that were coming out almost daily at the time. They fill in the rest of the time with absolutely horrible 'filler' songs. Filler songs are all the garbage songs that come with the album you had to buy just to get the one or two hit songs that you wanted.
The record company's dirty little secret was that if a group had several really good songs, the companies would spread them out across multiple albums to make more money. Used to piss me off that I had to buy a whole album just to get the one song I liked. Sure, there were some exceptions with super groups where almost all the songs were great, but they were few and far between. At least now with itunes you can buy just the songs you want most of the time, although I found a few that were only available with the album.
But anyway, the 8-Tracks channel plays all the crap songs that the radio stations of the time would never ever play because they would go bankrupt from lack of listeners. It's probably programmed by some minimum wage kid who was told to just fill up the time with whatever was on an album from back then.
If you have 1000.4 you are not getting the exact same line up as 1000.2 either.
Why don't you give me that RSN line up. :righton:
Only difference , a simple phone call will add what ever you need with Directv
Man, I really hope I'm right with my theory that when D14 is operational, Directv will replicate the content from 95 and 119 and a SL3 will be able to receive all programming. Just to see certain people stop whining about how Directv is screwing customers by installing SL3s
But right now I'm having and getting worse signal issues, Saturday can't come soon enough.
LOL. Maybe he'll give me a Slimline 5 lnb. Then I can have all the missing channels I'll never watch . HA Ha Ha
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OK, got it, but I also think he's got a good point!
My real question of you was/is: Anyhow, doesn't Pandora, Spotify, Last.fm, Apple Radio fill the bill on showing you new music if prompted? With higher bitrates, likely, too.
OK, got it, but I also think he's got a good point!
My real question of you was/is: Anyhow, doesn't Pandora, Spotify, Last.fm, Apple Radio fill the bill on showing you new music if prompted? With higher bitrates, likely, too.
I use Pandora on occasion. At the risk of TMI, my wife and I enjoy putting on various music channels in our bedroom a couple times a week :eek2: where we have no other music source. I also have it piped into my home theater setup for big sound, and I have not setup anything else. So, by default of not spending time setting other things up, being of a generation that doesn't first think of streaming music, I default to what comes easiest - tuning my TV to music.
Youtube is my source for music since i'm online most of the time anyway, I sometimes use Pandora when i'm tired of searching online, although I do use my playlist on Youtube for continuous playing, Sonictap is crap for me, although I do hear tranquility music channel to help me sleep !rolling
Will someone please tell the person creating the play-list for the Piano
channel, that A SAXOPHONE IS NOT A PIANO!
The SonicTap Piano channel play-list changed on May 11, 2014. For the previous
many years the Piano channel played exclusively piano music, and I piped it
throughout the house 24/7.
DirecTV's description of the content of the Piano channel (865):
"Solo piano for dining and relaxation. Elegant and contemplative selections from New Age, Easy Listing, Jazz and Classical. Tentative, reflective and flowing. Music for perfect moments."
Since the play-list has begun to feature saxophones, guitars, and drums, I
haven't heard any classical or standards tracks. It now definitely has a jazz
focus. I don't find the sort of jazz now on the Piano channel to be tentative,
reflective nor flowing. Instead, it is discordant and unpleasant, and would be
more appropriate for the Jazz channel play-list.
Will someone please tell the person creating the play-list for the Piano
channel, that A SAXOPHONE IS NOT A PIANO!
The SonicTap Piano channel play-list changed on May 11, 2014. For the previous
many years the Piano channel played exclusively piano music, and I piped it
throughout the house 24/7.
DirecTV's description of the content of the Piano channel (865):
"Solo piano for dining and relaxation. Elegant and contemplative selections from New Age, Easy Listing, Jazz and Classical. Tentative, reflective and flowing. Music for perfect moments."
Since the play-list has begun to feature saxophones, guitars, and drums, I
haven't heard any classical or standards tracks. It now definitely has a jazz
focus. I don't find the sort of jazz now on the Piano channel to be tentative,
reflective nor flowing. Instead, it is discordant and unpleasant, and would be
more appropriate for the Jazz channel play-list.
Will someone please tell the person creating the play-list for the Piano
channel, that A SAXOPHONE IS NOT A PIANO!
The SonicTap Piano channel play-list changed on May 11, 2014. For the previous
many years the Piano channel played exclusively piano music, and I piped it
throughout the house 24/7.
DirecTV's description of the content of the Piano channel (865):
"Solo piano for dining and relaxation. Elegant and contemplative selections from New Age, Easy Listing, Jazz and Classical. Tentative, reflective and flowing. Music for perfect moments."
Since the play-list has begun to feature saxophones, guitars, and drums, I
haven't heard any classical or standards tracks. It now definitely has a jazz
focus. I don't find the sort of jazz now on the Piano channel to be tentative,
reflective nor flowing. Instead, it is discordant and unpleasant, and would be
more appropriate for the Jazz channel play-list.
Will someone please tell the person creating the play-list for the Piano
channel, that A SAXOPHONE IS NOT A PIANO!
The SonicTap Piano channel play-list changed on May 11, 2014. For the previous
many years the Piano channel played exclusively piano music, and I piped it
throughout the house 24/7.
DirecTV's description of the content of the Piano channel (865):
"Solo piano for dining and relaxation. Elegant and contemplative selections from New Age, Easy Listing, Jazz and Classical. Tentative, reflective and flowing. Music for perfect moments."
Since the play-list has begun to feature saxophones, guitars, and drums, I
haven't heard any classical or standards tracks. It now definitely has a jazz
focus. I don't find the sort of jazz now on the Piano channel to be tentative,
reflective nor flowing. Instead, it is discordant and unpleasant, and would be
more appropriate for the Jazz channel play-list.
Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, Apple Radio would seem to be superior to Sonic, but best of all is your own selected music, by top artists, well recorded on concert Steinways, with top engineering...
DirecTV has no real stroke over Sonic, and DBSTalk has about as much pull with DirecTV.....
Thank you for your sagacious advice. Of course, I attempted to do that with mixed results. I spoke with a customer service representative in Austin, Texas who did nothing. Attempting to contact SonicTap at the e-mail address on their FaceBook page (INFO@SONICTAP.COM), I received this error message:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;INFO@SONICTAP.COM Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
So, perhaps you are able to provide the name and contact information for the person responsible for choosing the music play-list for the SonicTap Piano channel?
Thank you for your sagacious advice. Of course, I attempted to do that with mixed results. I spoke with a customer service representative in Austin, Texas who did nothing. Attempting to contact SonicTap at the e-mail address on their FaceBook page (INFO@SONICTAP.COM), I received this error message:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;INFO@SONICTAP.COM Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
So, perhaps you are able to provide the name and contact information for the person responsible for choosing the music play-list for the SonicTap Piano channel?
Check out the transponder maps, the music channels are spread out with 4 or 5 assigned to a transponder, it isn't like digital cable where they usually devote an entire QAM channel to MusicChoice. They would barely be able to add an SD channel if they got rid of them.
I understand your frustration, but results are not likely. There are a number of alternatives. Will any of them work for you?
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