We recommend MOG to all of our customers. If you want to have access to millions of albums and songs from most any music genre (for only $9.99 a month) at CD sound quality then check out MOG.
If you are the owner of a Sonos music system, MOG can be seamlessly added to your system.
We love MOG and use it everyday at home.
Check out the Forbes.com article about MOG below.
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A great article on Forbes about MOG & Spotify.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederic...blows-it-away/
============================== When Spotify introduced its streaming music service in the U.S. a few months ago, I raved about it. It gives you access to about 15 million tracks of music, on demand, where and when and on what device you want them, as long as you have an Internet or cell phone connection, and you can download tracks too. It’s almost like owning most of the record albums in existence, and for that reason I wrote that it made a music purchase service like iTunes feel obsolete. Why buy a track at a time when you can have all of them at once? And Spotify costs, in its fullest version, with no advertising interruptions and usable on all mobile devices, just $9.99 a month. Well, move over Spotify. Make way for MOG. MOG is a service like Spotify. It may have slightly fewer tracks—14 million or so, its people say*—but it offers several big advantages that to my mind make it altogether a better deal than Spotify at the same $9.99 top rate a month. First and foremost, everything on MOG streams at a highest-level 320 kbps bitrate. That means every track is just about CD quality. Spotify, which began in Europe and has been around longer as a subscription service, has said for years that it is upgrading its songs from its older standard of 160kbs, but an awful lot of them still come across at the lower bitrate. That makes a real difference if you’re plugging into a good sound system. Sometimes you’ll get great sound from Spotify, sometimes you won’t. With MOG you don’t have to worry. It really is like owning all those CDs. Second, MOG has a better collection in certain important, to me, areas. In pop music, it has all of Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd, where Spotify has almost nothing. In classics, it has the great Universal Classics catalog, meaning recordings by artists like Herbert Von Karajan, Maurizio Pollini, the Emerson String Quartet, and other best-in-the-world acts. Spotify has those, but with tracks missing from every album, having apparently not negotiated as good a deal with Universal. If you care at all for classical music, you should be far happier with MOG. Third, MOG has true gapless play between tracks. In music where one track bleeds right into the next, Spotify imposes a jarring break of a second or two. MOG plays just like a CD. There are other advantages to MOG, too. You can download an unlimited number of tracks from MOG; Spotify isn’t as generous. MOG offers wonderful playlists, so for instance when you search for “Ella Fitzgerald” you get not only hundreds of songs and dozens of albums but also about 20 playlists people have put together that include songs of hers. That’s a nice way to discover new music and artists, with great mixes of tunes someone has lovingly compiled. Also, MOG gives you a a radio player with a slider where you can choose anything from a Pandora-like mix of related material to 100% the artist you’re asking for. Spotify made me very happy. But now MOG simply thrills me. As Chris Connaker wrote for Computer Audiophile, “MOG has nailed it with simplicity, a relevant song selection, and better sound quality. The MOG desktop interface and mobile application are incredibly intuitive and without distracting features. MOG’s catalog is not only more relevant it’s streamed and stored in higher quality. MOG has made the deliberation over what service to keep and what service to cancel very easy. It’s really no contest.” *Corrected: I originally had 11 million here. (These numbers seem to be impossible to verify, but both services have amazing catalogs.) |