Gaana.com "HD" Songs Inquiry

[Arjan]

Has anyone subscribed to Gaana.com "High Definition HD music" streaming or download service?

I am intrigued by their HD Songs claim, but still a bit skeptical, since they do not advertise any other additional info about bitrate or format of songs that are available for download.

So, if anyone has availed their service, could you shed some light..

Cheers

 

[abracadabra]

I guess only provider in the Indian market that has specific bitrate option is Saavn, and a max of 128kbps only.

 

[Blackend]

Most online streaming services generally stream music at a default rate of 32kbps or in some cases, 64kbps. This is because very few users actually have 3G connections where data usage is not a big deal. I think I remember reading somewhere that Gaana HD stream was 192kbps.

 

[rdst_1]

Pandora HQ is also 192kbps.[emoji20]

 

[doom2010]

Wynk Music from Airtel has HD (320/256 kbps), High (128), Medium(64), Regular(32) option.

 

[Raghav_K]

Saavn allows download within mobile app at 320 kbps.

 

[mh09ad5578]

In a Gaana subscriber and it too allows 320kbps downloads to the mobile device/sound pretty deed decent but no option to download to external memory! That's a pain! Can't download all my favourites on the redmi even though I have a32gb SD card!

 

[Arjan]

@mh09ad5578 When you download songs from Gaana app on your mobile device, are all tags and album art correct and clean? By clean, I mean no unnecessary Gaana advertising on the album art and comments, file name, etc..
Also, is it possible to copy these songs to a PC or laptop for backup?

 

[mh09ad5578]

@Arjan -though there in no advertising in the downloads and all album art and everything is fine, the irritating thing is the app keeps logging you out a lot of times I'm between the times you are not using it, this causes two major issues-offline/downloaded songs won't play until you re login and ads play during the time in between you login. This is ridiculous, you end up seeing the ads even though you paid for the gaana+ subscription.!
Another thing is all downloaded content is on the main memory and can't be downloaded to the SD card, this causes issues with devices with low internal memory (both on my redmi and my mi3)
Hope I cleared that well enough

 

[Arjan]

@mh09ad5578
Subscribed to Gaana+ monthly subscription.
Also, you can move the downloaded songs to external memory sd card, if you install/move the Gaana app in the external sd card. I just did that and the songs are now on my sd card and no more low memory issues, I reckon. I would suggest you try the same.

 

[mh09ad5578]

Thanx @Arjan shall definitely do that!!

 

[vivek.krishnan]

I have used the Saavn trial for 2 months, and I am not impressed. Tags were OK, but I felt that the Artist tags were missing

Another thing is that Saavn was having some songs from FMW11.com or something similar. Guess they too are copying from pirates

 

[ev1lb0ygen1us]

Sorry for the thread hijack!
How does Wynk compares to Gaana in case of streaming? Which provides better bitrate while streaming of the two? Anything like last.fm where you can check out the top/hyped songs charts etc?

 

[balladeer]

Saavn was having some songs from FMW11.com

Wow! That's serious for a business entity.

 

[sushil.mudgil]

Apolgies for waking up a dead horse but i has 3 months subscription . Anyways i can download the songs using that to my laptop. I do not has a Wifi net and downloading on 3g means, i will exhaust my data pack in single day

 

[balladeer]

Mobile streaming is not catching up in India unless 3G (or 4G *coughs*) prices become sane in India.