I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning. When XM and Sirius were competitors. I have in my car and App. I use the App more now. BTW. SiriusXM has Live Weather and Traffic for your car. Which I also subscribe to. I obviously love it.
Thanks for the video. I typically rent a car for long road trips 1-2 times each year and I tend to drive (when by myself) 3-4 hours at a time. Sirius is completely 100% worth the $5 a day that I pay during these trips. You didn't mention it and it may just be me, but I always seem to find at least a few songs that I had never heard of and really like each time I do this, usually from stations that i don't listen to in my day to day (bluegrass, country, 80s alternative). I think if you are someone who likes finding music you've never heard of before, it's very underrated in that regard.
Actually siriusxm is the cheapest service amoung those services cuz you can call the customer service and they ALWAYS have promotions as little of 5$ a month.
For me it’s worth it , I find out about so many songs I don’t know of or forgot about … I have Apple Music and sirusXM for my 2016 Audi A3 … to me regular radio is now obsolete I can’t hear it anymore because of all the adds they play these days on the local radios … I’d rather just pay for no commercials
Makes zero sense to have Sirius in this day and age, especially with the price being higher. Every other music service offers essentially all the functionality that Sirius offers (including discovering new artists or underground ones from yesteryear) in addition to having an on demand library of music and podcasts which can be downloaded.
Depends. After a storm in my area, I ended up without cell service, and the internet was down for over 2 weeks. After listening to FM for a few days I remembered that SiriusXM existed. Went out and got one from local Best Buy. I signed up for the service at work and never look back. They have tons of content, works anywhere in Nord America, Bahamas and believe it or not works in Cuba as well. So yes I will keep subscribing to keep this service alive for as long as possible. I also bought an old Panasonic XMp3i from EBay, was made in 2010 and works just fine, got a Bluetooth transmitter and works just fine with my JBL charge 5.
@@one_with_kevrything9825look, it is not just about music. I have MP3 players and iPods for offline music play, vinyls, CD’s, BlueRay movies etc .. It is not the same experience. There is tons of content from talk shows to comedy, live sports, I am not a game fanatic but I used it to listen at work for some important games, live news etc… If you do not see the value in it, is ok. Is not for you. Streaming is to SiriusXM what Netflix is to cable TV.
Does Sirius ex M have a channel dedicated to disco music? I know they have their decades channel like 50s on 570s on seven and so on and they have all sorts of channels dedicated to all sorts of genres of music. If they don’t have this than they should have a disco channel, and they should also have channel is dedicated to like international music or some thing like we could have a Jewish radio music or maybe Hawaiian or French music or something like that.
I have it in my new truck and recently put the app on my iPhone. I also bought a Yamaha streamer for my hi-fi system and can listen to my heart's content in pretty high quality audio. After the free three month period on my truck ran out they gave me a year for $6 a month, and I will definitely keep it after that period. I also have Apple Music but I've found I now need them both.
The problem with sirius is programming. i cant speak for modern, but for classic or decades stuff its brutal. it's the same 18 songs repeated over 5 or 6 different channels. you're paying $25 bucks a month to listen to nancy the secretary's playlist.
idk if he mentioned it but what I like is that compared to my apple music, or people who use Spotify or something, SiriusXM has DJ's and I like that, that's a big deal to me. The only thing I don't usually like about radio is commercials, and SiriusXM doesn't have commercials which is nice. I love the FM channels in my city but most days of the week I'm in a college town, where I'm not the biggest fan of the majority of stations, (ironically I work at one of them, and its okay but not my genre) so I like having all the channels anywhere I want. Also I didn't even have to call to get a good deal, I searched the web until I found a link to a 12 months of their highest tear (platinum) for $5 a month, so do with that as you will.
Just call them and tell them to cancel the service, you’ll be routed to a rep( which his/her job is to save you from cancelling by giving you discounts) they will give you 3 offers, so wait for the third one because that would be the cheapest one. I’m an ex sirius employee so yeah, I know how there stuff work. Our job is to provide you cheap discounts for you not to cancel service.
Tip. I've driven various company owned or rented fleet vehicles that are relatively new and still have their original Free SiriusXM trial subscriptions unactivated and still available to them. I've switched them on. This is awesome when I get assigned a work truck for a month of two. I've never tried the trick with a standard rental car, just vehicles that are short-term leases for company business.
There product is fair to good. If you like Fox news on the road it is a must. Although I have been with them since they began I hate the way they conduct their business. Auto renewal really sucks and it takes an act of god to terminate a subscription. Their auto renewal executes before the subscription completion date and can only be stopped by calling them and then they will try to convince that you stay with a long sales pitch. Their prices are highly negotiable and their sales schemes seem like a dog and pony show. I would HIGHLY recommend never giving them a credit card number or they will for sure make you regret it by invoking their auto renewal scheme. Most reputable companies allow their customers to get out of auto renewal but not SiriusXM. My 2 cents about this good and bad company.
Yeah I tend to agree on that part. You can easily get a deal if you just call and threaten to cancel. They should just price lower and set up the subscription management more like a Spotify or Netflix where it’s all self serve. Their approach relies pretty heavily on aggressive sales tactics.
Im from Europe / Germany. Ever since i was in the US and canada for the first time i loved it. Im really sad we dont have satellite radio here im europe. We have digital radio ( DAB+ ) which is free but has tons of adds and has a bad reception most of the time since it is transmitted via normal towers.
Can one get Sirius Satellite Radio on their home internet computer. I love the Soul R&B Classic station I hear in my friends car. They play one hit after another. I don't have a car
Why do anyone think I would spent $15 to listen to “music” and “podcast” while I can pay pay $15 for youtube premium and also listen to music and podcast in my car but also have access to youtube without ads?? Honestly sirius xm is the worst business idea I have ever heard!!
problem with it though, djs arent live, its like ur listenng to a re run, when ur hearing the dj talkikng about it being wednesday and its a thursday lol and u dont get like severe weather for your area, so u miss out on some local stuff like that.
I've been using xiriusXM for about 4 years paying 7 dollars, now 5 until Nov. 2023 with promo offers. . When the promotions end, I cancell and 1 months or so later they offer a promo again. At that price I think it could be the future of radio. But more expensive than that, nope.
After Hurricane IRMA All local radio stations were doing local live broadcast of TV news. There was no electricity l, no cell phone coverage. The only Music was from SXM portable receiver and Car receiver. It was good to have something else to listen to than just news.
I bought a car back on Labor Day and it came with the Sirius XM free trial. I like it, but I work from home and don't drive that much. So I'm debating whether the subscription would be justified.
I love Sirius. I've had it for years until recently bought the lower trim 2022 mazda cx5 select. Mazda only offer Sirius on their premium trims which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard for something so basic as Sirius. Most vehicles have Sirius regardless of the trim you choose. I just never would have thought that my vehicle wouldn't have it until lil later I called trying to get my new car registered. This is such a deal breaker for me because half the time my phone won't stay connected to stream music. I will be trading in my Mazda. Just waiting to see what the redesign of the Rav 4 will look like.
I love the service, I had a xm2go radio when it first lanched in Canada, got a lifetime subscription (Life of the radio) and used it for 10 years till the radio stopped working. About a week ago I got the $10.99 streaming subscription on my new iphone. This was almost useless in Canada due to our low data caps but I managed to get a 100gb promo plan on black friday week so the data usage is much less of a concern now
@@TechnologyPaul I have used xm radio for 2 months now probably 5 hours a day average and the total data usage for my xm app is 19gb so I would assume the average person would use 10gb or less a month
Have had it as a sample in my new car for the past two months and I may just jump in. I hope it sticks around. It sure has a variety of stations and yes no commercials! Now the issue will be start paying when trial is over or get apple music?
I’m old school. I filter the music I listen to. (don’t want to listen to raunchy lyrics or cussing) Over the past 6 or 7 years I’ve purchased more than 600 songs that I really like (several different genres and five different decades) from iTunes which adds up to approx $10 a month. But I definitely don’t spend that much now. I rarely need to purchase anything anymore. I listen to different local stations while in vehicle, and sometimes hear songs on tv and movies, or even in stores, that I occasionally Shazam and then purchase. And then when I travel away from home, or while working around the house or yard I never get tired of listening to all my favorite music 🎶! And I’ll always be able to control it, and never have to pay again to hear it. - Probably wouldn’t work well for others, but great investment for me!
Same. I buy what I want to and at this point I barely have to spend money on music and I never listen to a song I don't like in the car. No need for this. For people who road trip, it can be useful. But I am in the city the vast majority of the time. It is useless to me.
I myself love siriusxm and being I travel for living works great for me as over the road truck driver I will agree the cost could be more affordable I would also suggest anyone wanting to try out sirousxm that don't have siriusxm build into your car don't go out and buy a plug and play radio untill you try out by streaming cause u don't like it or desude cost not work it ur stuck with a plug and play radio wait and try the streeming service before you buy the radio
First - the main point of Sirius XM over Satellite is that if you drive much - and often in areas with poor cellphone data reception, the satellite system is great. I installed an antenna outside of the car for this. BUT: The sound quality is way lower than via Sirius XM streaming over the app. AFAIK over the XM satellites they have 44 MBit/s bandwidth to fit all the channels in,, so you get some 64kbit/s AAC HE (or sth similar) for a channel (Sirius was way worse, and some of the informational channels use this). I installed the Sirius XM Onyx radio on my car dash and yes, I can hear those artefacts, sounds like a 96kbit/s MP3 file - BUT - in the car with the engine noise I am not forcing myself to Hi-Fi. I like some shows there and the fact that there are also channels actually doing interaction with the audience (like calling in shows) etc. The aspect of radio what playlists and .* Music cannot do is that it is live - a sports event, a concert, a call in show - and actual information.
Are you sending the audio signal from the Onyx through an auxiliary connection, or FM signal? I think that makes a difference in overall audio quality as well.
It's really noticeable in cars with older radios - almost to the point it's not worth listening to. Recent radios are better but yes still not as good as streaming from the app...
@@maximusextreme3725 Used to be but there was a class action lawsuit and now the lifetime is not for radios. They even let me upgrade to platinum for a small one time fee :D
Every time I cancel, they keep sending me offers begging me to come back. I like SiriusXM, but I don't really need it. I may come back though as long as I get to keep the same deal every year or better.
@@TechnologyPaul Related question.... do their satellites operate outside of North America? I know reception is fine even in the Alaskan arctic, but I've never transferred a SiriusXM subscription to a rental car outside North America.
I think we all need to get a class-action lawsuit against Sirius to get them to start playing MORE music. Nobody should want to cancel a service that serves them. Nobody should want to change a channel that plays good music for over an hour. Sirius needs to get SERIOUS about better disc jocking, and more variations and varieties of music than just " Top Ten commercial music without commercials." Their system is failing and it is not doable for so many that they should wonder about what is to become of their stations, and their personal ASSULT on Classic Rock and the future of Channel 26.
Sirius Xm is pathetic. Recently both my self and gf had signal problems with Sirius XM which started within the last 2 ish weeks. When you do a refresh signal you get no notification that is complete. What a joke. They tell you it can take 15 mins. Sitting in your car with the car running wasting fuel not knowing when or if the system was refreshed. Obviously a Satellite problem which they have not fixed. I keep calling back wasting my time and fuel. I DO NOT RECOMMEND SATELLITE RADIO.
The thing I love about Xm is being able to discover new music to add to my other streaming services. Also, satellite never cuts out when going through rural areas.
I have a deal I can sign up for that's $3/month for 36 months....I've never subscribed before...but this seems almost too good to pass up.....except they say "plus taxes and fees"....but they don't tell you how much those taxes and fees are....or even WHAT they are... I've tried contacting them about it....but they want ALL my information just to tell me something they likely know without it..... anyone here know how much the taxes and fees are? I mean...state sales tax I know...but I don't even know what the other fees are....which seems potentially sketchy to me.
I am really frustrated with SiriusXM. I have tried refreshing the signal multiple times but it just bounces randomly from channel to channel so much so that it's basically unlistenable.
I have the SiriusXM radio app and I love it. So why don’t they have a station that plays nothing but novelty records? Novelty music of all sorts like the stuff you would hear on dr. Demento. I love stuff like that too, even though they have all kinds of music to choose from and there’s something for everyone they need to add a station like that. Also, they should add international ethnic music stations, like folk music from different countries, like a Jewish folk station or, German folk or Mexican folk, you name it.
If you are a gen x person you will like this because of the choicesj you can make however if you're a Millennial or later it just doesn't make sense given the choices out there
Honestly radio is dead. The only places you hear a radio station playing is in a business. I don't know a single person in my generation that actively listens to the radio am/fm/xm
I would love it, if i could make a playlist. But its a radio so i get it. Just sucks when i have a bunch of songs i do not know nor like olaying on 9+ channels
Never heard of Sirius Radio until a half hour ago.. I guess it didn't take off in Australia....They were too busy fiddling around with Digital Disaster Radio So I presume that we never got serious about Sirius..
Was a subscriber since the earliest days of XM and it is had been fine for long distance road trips but the streaming interfaces of today's vehicles makes the original premise obsolete. The audio quality has long been hidden behind road and mechanical noises of the vehicle but the streaming app via a laptop or Roku or AppleTV, etc feeding a home audio system exposes just how bad the audio quality has been. A Q&A with the Listener Care group had them unable, unwilling to answer what their source material is or what format they are sending down the pipe. The nail in S-XM's coffin for us was when the wife admitted not using S-XM in her vehicle while accessing all her media from RU-vid via mobile tech.
I just got a piece of mail from Siriusxm today. I looked at what they offer and there isn’t anything they offer that I would pay for. I don’t even know how they know me or where I live. It’s all crap. It’s all crap and not worth it.
What would sell me more with this program would be the availability to use the hands free phone in the car as a SAT phone. Hell, I would even pay a bit more for that option.
I hate commercials.. i was living on just listening to the app. What i'm on the hunt for now is finding the best radio for my vehicle to get the most channels. How do i figure that out.
@@TechnologyPaul The "new" Tour Radio 360L from Sirius XM can do this, it connects via WiFi to your phone (Tethering). So it can do satellite XM/SXM and it can do streaming from the same device. BUT - it is horribly slow and the touch screen is not something I like very much - the real buttons on the Sirirus XM Onyx radio is what I prefer.
I installed a third time today, Android C30, 1/22/22. The "SKIP" Button is NOT working at all. IMPORTANT: There is NO WAY to SET the 'SKIP TIME' from '15 seconds (FIXED)' to a reasonable 30 seconds, 90, 120 seconds, etc! Also only 3 or 4 SKIPS are allowed in each Podcast! Most ads last 30 to 120 seconds so SUBSCRIBERS are COMPELLED to endure MANY ads 2x and 3x per Podcast! This results in LOTS of "lost time" listening to things we don't care about! Finally, the FORWARD ARROW (next to the "PAUSE" Button) does not function! If you like Podcasts this app is NOT for you (or me).
Liked your video. Never used or heard anything through Sirius XM until one was available at a vacation rental home we were at and we loved all the options. We have an older vehicle that doesn't have this installed already? What would be your suggestion if I want to get this but have an older vehicle?
Try going to crutch field, you enter you vehicles yeat make and model and they recommend what fits on it. They also include the wiring harness for free
In canada anyway you can get streaming service for $10.99 a month just get that and connect your phone to your car radio. I have a iphone and just downloaded the xm app and subscribed through apple supscriptions. Just one downfall is it uses lots of data so you need a large data plan I have 100gb a month data on my phone so not an issue
The SiriusXM website sells after-market satellite radios you can install pretty easily. My first satellite radio was an after-market install, and I was happy with it. shop.siriusxm.ca/iSynApp/allProduct.action?sid=1102601&pgmode3=new&pgcust1=vehicle&pgcust2=vehiclesub
1. You could play Sirius xm music from the Sirius xm app on your phone and just use an aux cable or Bluetooth to amplify that music and play it on your car speakers. 2. You could also just buy a satellite radio from a radio store and connect it to your car. I think this is the preferred method because the signal is coming directly from the satellite in the sky, whereas when you play it from your phone’s app, the signal is coming from your cellular carrier, which isn’t reliable sometimes. Your phone itself probably doesn’t have a satellite radio receiver, but that would probably be the best of both worlds.
I just bought a 10 year old car and am getting free svc for a trial. I thought it would be great..But all they do is play all the old music ..I mean where else do they get things? But, I like college stations or other inventive radio stations (I know VERY hard to find these days) And from this video I find out that the $10.99 package is NOT even for the car! In my opinion, it is unsatisfying and not worth it.
Sirius is awesome an absolute must since regular radio sux and spending your time searching, paying for and downloading music is totally lame you need Sirius but never pay regular price get a coupon code I only pay 6$ per month and that's acceptable for me just haggle with then a d they'll make a deal with you
