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by 01100011 2824 days ago
I've had Sirius for

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bugs me is that

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drive under a tree or overpass. Seriously, having

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really bugs me.

3 comments

I keep Sirius in my daily driver because the satellite cutouts are annoying, but so are cellular dead zones. And cellular dead zones are more common for me than satellite cutouts.
...Yeah, that's pretty accurate
my

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LTE

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Does that too

I've had very few buffering issues with Spotify via LTE over the years when compared the constant dropouts from my SiriusXM in my various cars that have had this service. SiriusXM audio quality is also terribly compressed and tinny in addition to the constant drop outs. I've never had a good experience with their product.

Spotify can also download large quantities of music and playlists...so with minimal planing you will have no buffering issues.

Having your service pre-download stations/playlists when on wifi helps with this.
Actually owning your music and storing it on your devices in open formats helps even more.
Hard with a 16 (actually 14) GB iPhone. I deleted my iOS music library (to free up space) and only stream now. Even with the LTE issues, it's (streaming) better than listening to the same couple dozen songs and dealing with iTunes.