On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 10:22:07 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/8/2016 10:07 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:

$20 a month to listen to the radio in the truck after a three month free
trial?

People do this?


Sirius is a pain in the ass. They give you a free 3 month subscription
or something when you buy a new, Sirus equipped vehicle
and then hound the bananas out of you to set it up and subscribe.

I had a Sirius subscription way back when they first started and
took advantage of a "free" lifetime offer for $300. They seem to
have lost records of that.

I unsubscribed from all their emails. Don't need it. I figured out
how to pair my cell phone via Bluetooth and downloaded the Nissan app
that allows me to go on-line in the car. Subscribed to the free
version of Pandora. That's good enough in addition to local radio.

You can get their "Mostly Music" package for about $14 a month, but it's still not worth it to me. It's not the cost, it's the quality. It's highly compressed and sounds like it. Almost no stereo image, no dynamic range. Dull and flat.

My car has a hard drive I can rip CDs to, and bluetooth for the itunes on my phone. They, and the HD FM tuner, sound so much better than Sirius I just can't listen to it anymore. When I called them to not renew, the guy got really ****ed when he asked why and I told him it sounded like ****. :-)