Internet Geniuses - Your Help Needed

[Turd Ferguson]

So my work laptop crapped the bed. They gave me a new one but here's the issue - I had Spotify on my computer. I can no longer install or use Spotify at work. I needed Spotify to help get me through the day with commercial free music with the ability to listen to whatever I want.

Furthermore - Pandora and Slacker Radio aren't options as they don't work either. Unless Pandora has a "Lite Player" that I don't know about.

So, I'm looking for potential options that are commercial free, and free to use. I tried Sirius for a month and it was great but they also want to charge $15 a month just for online listening. If it were $7 a month, I probably would have bit the bullet. Does anyone know of an option that will act like Spotify, or at least close enough? Is there a possible way I can stream Spotify from my Droid to my computer? If you know of any type of music service that could work, I'd be forever indebted to you. Of course there's I Heart Radio's website, but I'm looking for commercial free music.

Or I need to find a way to install Spotify on my work computer somehow.

Anyway, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Slyfox696]

Why can you not use Spotify at work simply because you have a new laptop? And yes, it's a question related to your problem.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

If I try to install it, I get a notification basically saying that I'm unable to continue installation. Even the woman in my IT Dept. was like, "oh, you got lucky installing this before we blocked it" back when I was first having problems with my old computer.

 

[Slyfox696]

Do you have computer speakers?

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Yes. Well, just the internal ones.

 

[Slyfox696]

You shouldn't need anything to play Pandora online, it just plays in a web browser.

But if that doesn't help, there's always YouTube or portable speakers for your phone.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

That's the thing... Pandora and Youtube both don't work. Streaming media is pretty much on lockdown. Sirius had a "lite player" that worked beautifully, but I don't want to spend $15 a month at the same time.

 

[Slyfox696]

Also, have you tried Last.fm?

 

[Thriller Ant]

I uploaded my music library to Google Play and listen to that at work. It's essentially iTunes, but online through Google

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Also, have you tried Last.fm?

Going to give that a shot tomorrow. Thanks.

I uploaded my music library to Google Play and listen to that at work. It's essentially iTunes, but online through Google

Not a bad idea either. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[This Is My Name Thank You]

Have you tried unblocking it from your work? Not sure if it will get you in trouble or not, though.