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Sonic Tap and SiriusXM both have their pluses and minuses. My personal preference is SiriusXM and I just ended up getting a subscription to it. I doubt SiriusXM will return to D* anytime soon and if at all. Sonic Tap has a lot more varieties to choose from and I do listen every now and then.
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+1......If I want DJs I'll tune in a FM station.scoop8 said:
I like having a holiday themed channel for more than just Christmas, so Tap is good for that, but MC has better or should I say bigger playlists. I have Comcast internet, and XMSirius in the house so I have all three. XMSirus is best overall but tv music channels do not need commericals and DJs.
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D* should dump SonicTap and just integrate a Pandora app into all their internet-connected receivers. What would be the cost savings?
I will say to me SonicTap has got a lot better. I listen to their decades channels ie 60's through 90's and it has got way better then when I first got D* back in 2010. The only issue I have is that for some reason on some of the channels like one of the country channels the EQ settings are jacked up and I notice it on a few of the other channels also... CC
I agree, I have no issues with the playlists anymore. I kinda get the feeling they created most of these stations specifically for DTV when they had to dump XM, so they probably had their producers scrambling to make a bunch of different mixes, which led to more repeats and less interesting finds. Just a guess.Carroll A said:
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Yeah, both my Pioneer AVR and Blu-Ray player have Pandora apps on them and I use that all the time. Plus I have my own extensive library of music on a hard drive that is networked and I access it usually through my XBox 360. The last place I go to play music is from my HR20. Also the Pioneer AVR lets you play music from your iPhone or iPad via AirPlay. It's great, even your friends can connect to it when they are over and play music from their phone, and no cables involved!
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Nope. DMX (Sonic Tap) has been around for years and years.Devo1237 said:
Back in the mid-90's when I had TCI cable (later sold to Time-Warner) I had a special set-top box "music terminal" which provided 30 channels of DMX for $5 extra a month. Guess what? Those same 30 channels (and more) are now on DirecTV with essentially the same formats and names!
The service offered to cable came with a huge remote control with an LCD display that gave you the song title and artist when you aimed it at the set-top box and pressed INFO!! I loved the service but when Time-Warner came along it went away and shortly thereafter I switched to DirecTV.
Oh yeah. I didn't realize SonicTap was created by DMX from the website. I used to have a DMX box in the early 90s as well. It does look like the SonicTap brand was created specifically for DTV tho, so I'm guessing they still had to come up with a few extra channels in a hurry to satisfy everyone's desire for specific XM stations. That would at least explain the poor quality of some of the channels at launch (that some people are still unwilling to get over)."ThomasM" said:
Regardless, they're definitely a lot better now. If I could get these channels in my car (along with the sports stuff), I'd drop XM in a second.
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Nope. Some genius at DMX decided they could get extra money after seeing all the music download sites spring up on the web. So they coughed up "Sonic Tap" long before DirecTV begain carrying it and put together various compilations of music from their existing channels and began selling them online. The site cleverly never mentions it's affiliation with DMX.Devo1237 said:
DMX always had the channels now on DirecTV and lots more. There are over 100 DMX satellite-delivered channels- many that DirecTV doesn't carry. In the past few years, DMX did do a bit of shuffling by getting rid of less-popular channels and adding new ones in their place. But the channels DirecTV carries have been around forever.
I still haven't figured out why DirecTV uses the "Sonic Tap" logo instead of DMX-perhaps so commercial customers of DMX who pay plenty for the service don't realize it's offered on DirecTV (which is why XM probably left DirecTV in the hopes of getting new customers who would pay lots more than DirecTV was paying them).
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