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Streaming music showdown: Which client fits your needs?

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    The number of available apps for streaming music clients continues to grow and most now charge $10 per month. You will find music streaming and internet radio apps in your operating system software store.

    Check out my full ZDNet Smartphones & Cell Phones post for details on these eight selected services.

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    Spotify is the hot new client in the U.S. and does have LOTS of music that streams in high quality.

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    There are different options available to you in Spotify as you can see here.

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    The discovery aspect of Spotify is rather limited, but you can also search to find things.

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    Spotify is well founded on playlists so you should subscribe to your friends playlists to see various music.

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    Albums can be viewed and added to your playlists in entirety.

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    The home screen in Spotify shows your playlists and other music data.

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    The Premium version of Slacker lets you take over lots of control so you can create custom stations to fit your needs.

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    Your favorite stations are attached to your account so when you sign in on a different device your favorites will appear.

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    Slacker supports offline caching of songs so you can enjoy your music even with no wireless data connect.

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    You can manage your cached stations and see how much you are taking up.

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    There are also a number of premade stations in Slacker to help you find music.

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    There are several menu items available to you in Slacker.

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    You can share music with others in Slacker too.

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    Slacker plays in landscape orientation too while a few others only work in portrait.

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    Pandora is a very popular music streaming service.

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    Pandora also plays in landscape orientation.

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    Pandora is setup so you enter in an artist and they create channels with content similar to that artist for you to enjoy.

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    The Napster user interface is easy to use and fun to navigate.

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    There are several settings available in Rdio.

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    This screenshot shows a typical album art image of a playing song.

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    Rdio has a rather unique music discover method and I imagine over time I could get to enjoy it.

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    Rdio is a very social focused app with people sharing their listening plans as feeds.

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    There are several settings available to manage your music in MOG.

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    You can use the slider bar at the bottom of the display in MOG to control what music plays.

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    You can download songs for later enjoyment in MOG.

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The number of available apps for streaming music clients continues to grow and most now charge $10 per month. What else is there that differentiates these services and apps?

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The number of available apps for streaming music clients continues to grow and most now charge $10 per month. You will find music streaming and internet radio apps in your operating system software store.

Check out my full ZDNet Smartphones & Cell Phones post for details on these eight selected services.

Published: August 5, 2011 -- 02:42 GMT (19:42 PDT)

Caption by: Matthew Miller

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