Whats some of your favorite tunes to drive to Veeky Forums?
Your favorite local radio channels, satellite radio, online radios, playlists, bands that sound great while driving, ect ect.
I usually have Pandora playing and have gotten the station (AC/DC) to the point where it plays a lot of the upbeat, kick ass songs from the 80s and early 90's. Sounds especially grand on those areas where you're able to pick up the speed a bit.
I'm a dnb nerd for the most part. I also like driving around at night listening to burial and 2 step garage.
I like liquid dnb for driving, Calibre is great for that.
But it varies, sometimes I'll listen to this weeks Essential Mix (BBC R1) or Annie Mac's show or whatever.
In traffic piano can be nice. Otto A Totland - Pino Sonic Pieces is on my USB drive now for that.
Jordan Russell
>I usually have Pandora playing
I have enough songs on USB that I make up my own playlists of 80's or 90's songs and use the playlists instead of XM Satellite. The use of playlists for your USB is basically the same approach as Pandora and XM except now there are no "commentary infomercials" like on satellite radio.
With voice control, I can move to favorite tunes easily. If the newly requested song is on a different playlist, the system seamlessly moves to play more songs from that playlist. If a song is on multiple playlists, the top ranked playlist (based upon number of plays) is chosen out of the set of possible choices. I can reset those ranks though.
My only use for XM Satellite was their info services such as the prices of the gasoline stations currently closest to my car. Other fluffy info like the closest movie theatres (and what they are playing was not of much use) although I did use it once to find a theatre with stadium (not regular) seating for a particular movie (CA:CivilWar).
I will probably let my satellite radio subscription lapse at the end of next month. It's major uniqueness is Howard Stern but his salty cynical talk is not enough to keep my listening. Instead, the cynicism just makes me feel bad at how crappy or unethical so very many american people are and how regular drug use typically is a sign of an unethical person.
I love Sirius XM Chill. It's my most favorite station ever.
Lucas Garcia
>tfw live in the Netherlands and all the radio stations are shit Whenever I'm in or near Belgium (or whenever I feel like streaming it online) I tend to tune in to Studio Brussel. All kinds of different genres, somewhat alternative, but all of it interesting and good.
I never thought of "sirius" or "pandora" (the same company now as sirius bought out other companies) as stations. They are basically playlist broadcasts or repeat broadcasts of previously aired material. Some of the stuff they air is simply the recorded audio track to some TV shows or radio shows.