There are many different ways to listen to music on the go. The most common is the radio, as most people listen to it in the car every day, multiple times. This is a good, free way of getting the music that you like. There are many different stations, and it's easy to change the station to match the type of music you want to hear. The downfall of this is that a lot of radio stations are local, so if you go on a road trip or travel far away, it is hard to find new radio stations. The nice thing about this is that with the music, you can also catch up on celebrity gossip if you like that, hear about local happenings, and other topics of discussions.
Another common way of listening to music is Youtube. People listen to video playlists and choose what songs they want to hear. A good thing about this is that you are in control of what you want to hear, but you have to keep the app open to listen to them. This can kill your battery on your phone quickly. Another struggle is that often internet might be running too slow for videos to load. I personally do not like it because you have to pick a new song when one ends, or cannot find songs that I want to hear.
One of my favorite ways of listening to music on my phone is using Pandora. This is an app that is free, or can be purchased. The only difference is that the free version has ads sometimes, and personally, I don't mind them. On Pandora, you create your own stations, and then they play songs that it thinks you would like. This is nice because it opens me up to new music, I can have as many stations as I want, and my favorite part is that I can ban songs that I don't like. There are only two flaws that I see with this form of music on the go. The first is that Pandora uses internet. This makes it hard, as if internet is slow, the music will freeze, and I use all of my phone data, and then my parents get angry... The other issue that I find is that you cannot restart a song, and you can only skip a few songs in a certain amount of time. Sometimes I have a part that I want to hear again, and want to skip a lot of songs, because they are over played or not what I want to hear at that time.
Similar to Pandora, but not as good in my opinion is Spotify. This is another free app, that you can also purchase to get rid of ads, and requires internet. This one is different in the way that you create playlists that you want to hear, or find pre-made playlists, or playlists made by others. The thing I don't like about this as much is the fact that it doesn't make you hear new music. you can listen to the same songs for days on end. I like that this way, I can make a playlist of songs that I want to hear at specific times, and have those saved. You can also save songs that you would otherwise have to purchase. This is a good way to save money if you aren't sure you like the song or album yet.
Another awesome way to get music on the go is to download songs and albums to your phone. This is simple and easy because it doesn't take internet to listen to listen to music, and it's a one time purchase. You can buy one song, or a whole album. You can download it from the internet, or but the album and import it to your phone. The only downfall to this is time. For me, it takes time to download music, and I never sit down and do it. When I do, I take an hour or more and add a lot of music. I then take a lot of time and take old music that I don't want any more and clear it out.
These are not the only ways of getting music on the go. These are just my favorite, and the most popular. There are thousands of ways to do so, you just have to look and find one that works for you. I suggest Pandora or downloading music, but I, and many other authorities and musicians, ask that you don't pirate music. This is just not right, and really does hurt people. Happy Listening!!
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