Music streaming service that caches for drops in the connection?

Skeeter · 29 Dec 2013 at 01:28

I'm going to be commuting to central London for the next few months and like the idea of the Spotify and Google Music radio services that stream suggestions to you. But the signal on the train is unreliable and on the tube obviously doesn't exist. Do any of these sort of services cache the upcoming tracks in you queue on your device automatically to cover loss of streaming connection?

I don't fancy having to manually swap to an offline playlist every time my mobile signal drops.

MikeTheNative · 29 Dec 2013 at 15:53

Spotify Premium does this I think.

Janesy B · 29 Dec 2013 at 17:39

You can download tracks with spotify premium.

Skeeter · 30 Dec 2013 at 17:41

I don't want to have to manually do anything. I know I can make offline playlists on Spotify and pin music to my device on Google Play, but I'd want to use the personal radio services to find new music, but the signal on the train ans then on the tube makes streaming music tediously stop start

ShortWarning · 2 Jan 2014 at 10:46

Google play music also does this. It only caches songs that you have already listened to or already started listening to though.

You can also download any tracks to your phone.

Skeeter · 2 Jan 2014 at 22:08

I've got my music collection on Google Music and its good. But I fancy the Radio function to find new music. It seems caches music and radio streaming services are 2 seperate functions that don't tend to cross over

TheVoice · 11 Jan 2014 at 07:46

They won't cache songs you haven't played yet due to obvious bandwidth reasons.

Skeeter · 15 Feb 2014 at 18:00

So it looks like Google beat Spotify to solving this for me. 5.4 of Google Play Music app allows you to cache radio stations. Grabbing an early release of the app now and will take the free All Access trial and try it next week.