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by rospaya 1250 days ago
If it only has wifi then you can only stream what you saved beforehand in areas where there's no wifi access.

But if it has a SIM slot with 4G/5G access then it's nothing more than a repackaged phone.
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izacus 1250 days ago
So click the "Download" button in Tidal/Spotify/Apple Music?

I mean, if you need cellular, then you're better served with your phone and this isn't for you. It also doesn't have to be for you - use your phone and move on.

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SECProto 1250 days ago
> But if it has a SIM slot with 4G/5G access then it's nothing more than a repackaged phone.

A repackaged phone with a quality headphone jack and physical buttons? I'd love to buy that (but unfortunately it doesn't seem to have a SIM slot)

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sangnoir 1250 days ago
Is there a streaming service in existence that doesn't offer offline playback? It's probably requires a subscription, but a streaming service that can't be used in deadspots or tunnels is kinda useless, don't you think?
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rospaya 1250 days ago
For me the streaming part is important - I usually don't choose what to listen to before leaving home.

> a streaming service that can't be used in deadspots or tunnels is kinda useless, don't you think?

I think all of them have buffering to pass any dead spot. Also bad reception is a thing of the past where I live and and 30 GB of data makes it all very seamless.

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sangnoir 1250 days ago
I explicitly mentioned downloads - I didn't mean buffering.

> For me the streaming part is important - I usually don't choose what to listen to before leaving home.

Pre-downloaded mixes are a compromise of discovery and offline playback

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SSLy 1250 days ago
> Is there a streaming service in existence that doesn't offer offline playback?

Youtube Music :^]

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sangnoir 1250 days ago
The YouTube music app has offline playback, if you have a subscription. It can proactively download recommended tracks to a local cache only when connected to WiFi
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gsora 1250 days ago
It doesn’t have cellular network AFAIK.

But again, the target users don’t bother with streaming much, the device just so happens to run android, and that makes running streaming apps possible.

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