Will o2 ever do a music a service?

[Luke30]

Hi douse anyone know will o2 ever do a music service again like they use to?

[MI5]

@Luke30 

No idea, we are all customers here like yourself, but I doubt it.

[Anonymous]

@Luke30 If it didn’t work before then they definitely won’t do it again

[Luke30]

Oh OK. But o2 could do something like ee douse like a sport pass or music pass or something like orange did that is a part of there website to do with music that there custermers sign in to and make there play lists and they call a number that they call to listen to listen there play lists or with the music pass they work alone he with spotefi.

[MI5]

You can pay for Spotify through your O2 account,
With so many music services out there, I don't see the point of another one.

[Luke30]

I know but I am on pay as you go so I don't always have credit to pay it by account and not only that I won't know when I need to top up for it to tack but if o2 do a music pass with spotyfi I would know when to top up. And the other thing to do music on the website and to call a number to listen to it I would be able to do it as I have a lot of mins on my price plan to call it to listen to the music.

[Anonymous]

Too many music streaming services out there already. Spotify as mentioned above, Apple Music, iTunes, google music, YouTube etc, no need for another which would likely be removed 3-6 months after launch 

[Marjo]

Hey @Luke30 , just caught up with your topic here. Cheers for your ideas related to music. I'm wondering if the earlier initiative you mentioned was the music streaming allowance we had a couple of years ago for certain tariffs, whereby you could get a certain amount of data for music streaming, which would be added on top of your normal data. Is that what you'd wish to have back? Happy to pass on your feedback.

The music by calling a number idea is interesting and something I've never thought about myself. Just discussed that with the team here and we actually found a website (note: not related to O2) where you can do exactly that, it's called DialARadio. We tried to call a few station just now out of curiosity. Capital FM and another UK one worked, but we were unable to hear anything when we tried a couple of foreign stations unfortunately. They have an FAQ page with info around the price of call per minute and it seems to be charged local rate. Sound quality was is similar to customer service holding music.

You guys mentioned you wouldn't necessarily be interested in another music streaming service @MI5 , @Anonymous . Which existing ones do you normally use and is there any innovation you can think of that you would find interesting in the future for these services?

[Anonymous]

I tend to use iTunes & Apple Music @Marjo 

[MI5]

Spotify does all I need for now.
I did use the O2 Music app (whatever it was called now escapes me) but it didn't have anything like the choice or functionality of Spotify so not surprised when it was canned.
I also have all my albums uploaded to GMusic so I can access any of them, anywhere.