Music. Music, Music David Pierce over at Wired wrote an article about Music streaming that says it best. Streaming music has an offline problem
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Why we still need MicroSD cards
- Thread starter dontpanicbobby
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AZgl1500
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that writer is a jerk,,,,
98% of Americans have access to LTE?
I guess he only lives in heavy metropolitan areas.... places where folks don't even own a car... they just ride the metroline to/from their place of work, or tent in the alleyway.
get off the highway in rural USA and you can forget about LTE, and even 1x in a lot of the places here where I live. Streaming anything is useless.
see the background in my avatar? that is just about all there is to see in most of the places I go. in some of those places, roads are a dusty trail left in the dirt... forget about pavement.
98% of Americans have access to LTE?
I guess he only lives in heavy metropolitan areas.... places where folks don't even own a car... they just ride the metroline to/from their place of work, or tent in the alleyway.
get off the highway in rural USA and you can forget about LTE, and even 1x in a lot of the places here where I live. Streaming anything is useless.
see the background in my avatar? that is just about all there is to see in most of the places I go. in some of those places, roads are a dusty trail left in the dirt... forget about pavement.
funkylogik
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Other than that he speaks a lot of sense 
FWIW all our "streaming" apps, always have a download button for every song and album. So you can always listen to them offline if you want.
Another reason to have SD cards is recording video, shooting in 1080p can fill up your internal storage pretty quickly.
funkylogik
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Try 4k lol!
Gmash
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China...where copyrights go to die
funkylogik
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Gmash
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The writer of that article sounds like a whiny, spoiled emo hipster. "Nobody had music on their phone, because it's 2015". Boo hoo. That's why I would never pay money for a streaming music service. I just think it's funny that the one time in his coddled life he didn't have mobile data, he takes to the interwebs to write a lazy, crybaby article about it LOL.
funkylogik
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^^
funkylogik
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Mascara...... Bro.....
funkylogik
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Me three
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Although I do stream music and vids, I primarily use my SD card for apps, music, pics/video, recording, office stuff, etc... I am not going to leave all of my personal stuff in the cloud to be sold off or hacked. Having said that, the SD card is much needed for my phone.
funkylogik
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Yeah I wish my 16gb phone had SD support purely for music.
All my pics and vids I trust to Google's cloud
All my pics and vids I trust to Google's cloud
funkylogik
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Me either tbh while we have youtube (although the ads are becoming more obnoxious)
Who needs to pay? Google Music lets me stream my entire music collection for free.
You get what you pay for. If you want Led Zep's entire back-catalogue in high-bitrate MP3 or even FLAC then you gotta pay the piper.
funkylogik
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I was gonna ask that about Play Music, does it let me upload unlimited music and stream it for free?
Any way to rout it through PowerAmp?
Do I need a PC to upload it?
Any way to rout it through PowerAmp?
Do I need a PC to upload it?
There's a limit of 50k tracks with the free-to-use service.
Nope, the Google Music player must be used.
I'm not sure. You might be able to do it via the browser rather than use the Music Manager PC program.
You can do it through Chrome without requiring the PC application... but I do think a computer (not a mobile device) is still required: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/4627259
! Red light on the "FiberHome" modem means we're not going to be able to stream much of anything tonight.
Happy still got local media storage here.
What's (almost) worse than no microSD card? A microSD card that you can't hot-swap! 
[emoji32] Wha..??What's (almost) worse than no microSD card? A microSD card that you can't hot-swap!
A combined nanoSIM+microSD tray. Pulling it out to swap cards also removes the SIM, which triggers a shutdown/restart.