Posts tagged NiceMac
Why I'd Subscribe to Sirius Again
Jun 17th
Well, there’s some info out there that Sirius XM will be releasing an iPhone app this week so we’ll see what happens with that.
While I had been looking forward to an iPhone app that was coming out from the NiceMac team, the app was bounced by Apple. I still stuck around for a while as a subscriber. There had been some other changes and in general dissatisfaction on my end and ended up not renewing.
I was starting to think about renewing with the updated efforts over at NiceMac and the StarPlayr project. With their work and the iPhone app news, I was minutes away from clicking the submit button on my order when I saw a news item in my RSS feed about yet another rate hike from Sirius XM.
I’m stuck in a holding pattern with you Sirius… I’m glad I haven’t received any more calls begging me to come back (and they stopped after requesting to be placed on the do not call list only once… not many places honor that as quickly!) but you’re making it so hard for me to come back. I do have to say though, that if it wasn’t for StarPlayr, I probably wouldn’t even be thinking about it.
The Death of a StarPlayr
Mar 13th
I can’t even really express how disappointed I am at the ending of the StarPlayr project! The nails in the coffin were really hammered in by Sirius XM’s updated Terms & Conditions of use, per the post at StarPlayr.
What I can say is that Sirius XM is already on thin ice in my book. The channel merger was absolutely horrific! I didn’t see any emails or receive notice regarding changes of my subscription. When I got in the car the morning after, the receiver updated the channel list and one of my most listened to stations (Sirius 36, The Beat) was turned into something totally unrecognizable which turned out to be BPM. Sirius XM must have received tons of complaints about this channel and others. I listened to BPM for a whole day and at the end, switched over to Hits 1 and The Pulse. A few weeks later, I switched back on BPM and except for some of the personalities being gone, the music was back to the way it was. Even the morning show, renamed The Beat Morning Show on BPM.
I was ready to cancel my subscription right then based on that and other changes. Luckily, Derek and Romaine survived the merger.
Now that it is becoming more apparent that Sirius XM is going to be releasing an app for the iPhone, if they require me to pay more for the convenience, I’m ready to say goodbye Sirius XM.
I was so looking forward to the quality App that NiceMac was beta testing and was willing to pay for the app, but not anything additional for the service. I recently even donated a small amount of cash for the project as well.
I’ll be on the lookout for updated information and SIrius XM has one strike left before they’re out of my life for good and I’ll settle for services like Pandora or Last.fm.