Free Xm

[EmeryZ28]

I love XM, its a shame they have some douchebags working for them.

please elaborate

[PalmerGA]

Originally Posted by DFWZ28

palmer,

what jump drive did you get (size) to burn several cds? I did the same thing and could barely fit 1 cd. maybe I was burning the cd and to high of setting and each song is very large in MB.

Loop

Yeah, you're doing something wrong. I am currently burning CDs to a SanDisk 8GB jump drive (cost less than $10) and have 10 CDs on there so far. Total disk usage is 735MB with 6.7GB free space.

[PalmerGA]

Originally Posted by Paladinjc

Why pay people for S@#T radio? Radio is free, just tune to the FM station.

Not too bad if you are local and have choices of good stations. I travel a good bit and it's nice to be able to listen to "Classic Vinyl", "Patriot Radio", "PGA Tour", etc. the entire trip... no matter where. Beats scanning for a new station every 50 miles and settling for something tolerable to listen to. Don't leave home without it.

The only downside is that the Shark Fin SUCKS as a signal receiver.

[PalmerGA]

Originally Posted by Kopterman

When you purchase an SS you get XM for a year free. Mine is anyway. Says right on the sticker.

It has varied, for some reason. Some get a year, some six months, mine was only three months.

[Jcm]

Some lease cars will have XM,,At a discounted rate for the company that furnish them to their employees..sometimes they may not get shutoff.. I had a Cadillac lease I bought that never got turned off...XM is okay..but I like my IPod just as well...
If you like XM they'll do $25 for 6 month intervals just don't give them your credit card #..cause it'll take many calls to drop them..

[Dfault]

Originally Posted by Paladinjc

Why pay people for S@#T radio? Radio is free, just tune to the FM station.

I hate commercials on free radio and the music i like to listen to isn't radio friendly all the time (metal). So it's worth the $18 a month I spend.

[goinggone14]

Originally Posted by PalmerGA

It has varied, for some reason. Some get a year, some six months, mine was only three months.

I've wondered about this as well. My purchase date was 5/10/14. I went on a road trip on 8/9/14 expecting to lose it on the way back. Fortunately, I logged into my account and checked my expiration date to find out that I had it until 5/10/15 - who knew?

The slip in my glove-box when purchasing said complimentary 3 months (probably standard form for all new Chevy's) but I'm definitely still active. Glad I checked or I might not have even turned XM on for the 850 mile trip home.

[Criticalmass]

Originally Posted by DFWZ28

palmer,

what jump drive did you get (size) to burn several cds? I did the same thing and could barely fit 1 cd. maybe I was burning the cd and to high of setting and each song is very large in MB.

Loop

Rip them at 192 in MP3 format. or 320 if you like. You really won't notice the difference. You can also rip them as variable, up to 320 I believe. So it will compress them lower where appropriate.

If you are ripping them in FLAC, that's lossless, so the files will be huge.

You can get 128 gig usb 3.0 flash drives now for under $100.00 I have a 32 gig, which is plenty for me. I prefer the new Patriot flash drives over anything else.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ot+flash+drive

This one should hold just about anybodies music library: http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Supers...ot+flash+drive

And I agree, Satellite radio doesn't compare in sound quality to my music.

[dmginc]

i have tons of music on my phone, plug it into aux jack and enjoy. can do same with an mp3 player.

[K1SSRSS]

Originally Posted by Caddyroger

ok smart ass what are their with no am or fm. I have not listen to am or fm in over 10 years. The only time is when my grands kids or daughter is in the car.they might listen to the FM stations but that is rare. I do not like to listen to 5 minutes of talk and advertizing a 3 song then repeat. Sirius radio 3 minute song 15 sec break repeat. Pandora is nice but you need some thing that uses the internet.

I'm just livening things up lol, but there is IPods, CDs and hundreds of other devices available. I find less talk and advertisements on FM than I ever did when I had XM and you get updates local to your area, on AM well the whole purpose of that is talk radio.

[DFWZ28]

Originally Posted by Caddyroger

If you use mp3 you can get a lot of music on a thumb drive. Ihave 4g drive that I have 323 songs on it. It only used .98GB.

thanks caddy, will have to try it out. I do not remember if my burner offered that option but my 4 gig drive barely has 25 songs on it.

Sirius: octane channel and the all pink Floyd channel!!!

[jshaf]

I was listening to XM driving around today and the sound was washed out sounding, would rather listen to my Ipod throu the USB connection.

[skipinminn]

The signal gets lost way to often where I live :(

[Edzo]

Originally Posted by Wizard1183

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