Some SXM radios start the most recent song from the beginning when you punch up the channel, so you are listening on a bit of a delay with the audio buffered anywhere from a few seconds to a couple minutes behind the live signal. On my radio, this puts the song titles out of sync with the audio since the display data doesn't seem to be buffered the same way the audio is. However, it's the opposite of what you've described. The display shows the title of the next song prior to to it starting since the audio is delayed but the display is not.
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SiriusXM Changing Direction
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Some SXM radios start the most recent song from the beginning when you punch up the channel, so you are listening on a bit of a delay with the audio buffered anywhere from a few seconds to a couple minutes behind the live signal. On my radio, this puts the song titles out of sync with the audio since the display data doesn't seem to be buffered the same way the audio is. However, it's the opposite of what you've described. The display shows the title of the next song prior to to it starting since the audio is delayed but the display is not.
Interesting, I've seen that behavior on the SXM stream but not in the car.
My SiriusXM radio buffers the last 90 minutes for all presets. The buffer begins when the car starts until it shuts off. It's a great way to jump around the presets and rewind/fast forward. It also pauses your current channel when you answer a call. However, it has a similar issue currently with titles not updating in real-time, which has only recently developed. In the past, there were no syncing issues between the artist/title/artwork and whether I was listening to live content or buffered audio.
Yes Monday it happened on classic rewind
I just checked the manual for mine and it looks like it does this too. Who knew? Thanks for the heads up!
I can rewind, but only on the current channel and only to where I started listening. Of course, my car is 12 years old. YMMV.
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Back in '01 when XM started up. There were not a ton of subscription services on the market. For something like $12 a month you get their service. Well today that service is a whole lot more expensive and there are many subscription services out there all going for the same dollars. Consumers can get tapped out About 3 years ago dropped the Stern package because he was no longer worth paying for. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Then in November of 23 when I got my new truck I canceled the service in my old truck. The new truck did not come with satellite radio. I installed the free service of Tune In on my phone. So that is one way for me to get my music. Then there are also direct website links to formats I like that don't charge a fee. I think bottom line is that for many people SXM is a service that is just not worth paying for.
Which is why they're experimenting with the free ad-supported package. They would never have done that before.
Yes, I've noticed it on several channels.
I've always felt that the MSRP (so to speak) was way too high and wondered why they didn't set a firm price of $9.95/mo. An under $10 subscription is something people are more likely to try and less likely to cancel.
Instead, they started playing games to the point that now the $20+/mo + taxes subscription can be had for $6/mo if you're willing to spend a few minutes on the phone each year trying to cancel. If you actually cancel you can come back for an even lower fee!
The game-playing only calls attention to the ongoing subscription and caused people to look for alternatives.
I think they should also be careful about too much unnecessary DJ chatter and "special" programs. Dropping Prime Country for 3 weeks of Christmas songs, and switching to the Bakersfield Beat on some weekends, led me to discover Heartland Public Radio ā Classic Country and Bluegrass Gospel (HPR2 is the Classic Country) which is similar but with a broader playlist. I just need a newer car that makes it easier to use streaming.
BTW, HPR2 is over-proccessed but in the car that doesn't really matter.
It appears that the 2 Stern channels are now included at no additional charge.
Many of the sale prices available for SiriusXM subscriptions are considerably lower than the fees charged when the service started over 20 years ago.
I believe many people are subscribing at bargain rates.
Yet for some posters here, those are the elements they miss most from traditional radio.
It's a balancing act. If SXM retains, or even adds, air talent on its music channels, it risks losing many current or potential subscribers in their 20s or 30s who grew up with mixtapes and iPods and customized streaming. The subscribers who prefer motormouth DJs are growing older and falling away due to natural causes or financial constraints, with no younger generation to replace them.
Christmas music for nearly a full month on the only channel that programs country music from the booming '80s and '90s -- a style of country that's in the midst of a revival -- also strikes me as a boneheaded move. If country Christmas music were a subgenre that most country listeners wanted to hear, don't you think more FM mainstream country stations would be going all-Christmas? But most of them aren't, and their listeners seem fine with that, though some drift to the saccharine seasonal songs played on adult contemporary stations during December.
Tough call for SXM to make, definitely. Sending all the jocks packing would certainly excite Wall Street (fewer employees = bigger profit) and position SXM better with the current generation. But the current subscriber base skews older, and there's no guarantee that the exodus of lovers of old-fashioned personality radio would be replaced or exceeded by the influx of younger listeners who want wall-to-wall music.
Isn't that what KKGO in LA did for about 8 years? Didn't they drop their country format for Christmas for a month?
It also depends on the DJ. For example I enjoy Mike Terry on Prime Country. He talks briefly about the music -- not about himself like many of the others.
For a drinking game, try listening to Caylee Hammack and take sip every time she says, "I," "Me," 'My," or "Mine." DO NOT do this while driving because you'll be veering off the road in half a mile!
That's one station, in a market in which country is a fringe format. Name me some country stations that matter.
In Sirius-land, the only country station that matters is the Highway. They regularly blow up Y2K country for special weekends too.
Daimler/Chrysler would be proud of you, because that was a nice dodge! I thought you were going to give me stations that matter that flip to country Christmas for a month every year and instead I got one seat-of-the-pants operation in a heavily ethnic market that largely doesn't care for country music, along with the assertion that the SXM channel that does so is irrelevant. SMH! So why didn't you just say that in the first place and leave out KKGO entirely?
Either one. Take your pick.
Cute joke, but partially out of date.š³ Daimler sold Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management in 2007.š
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