Are you Sirius?

The easiest way to cancel Sirius after the paid subscription is to cancel/change your credit card.

Sirius is like 52 Kbps quality. Basically as bad as youtube or worse. Pointless for serious music listeners but fine for talk show and sports.

I loathe...LOATHE!...Sirius!!!

And it's not actually because of the music.  It's for this reason:

As many have experienced, my new car (a Volkswagen Golf, several years ago when it was new), came loaded with a month trial period of Sirius.

I did not ask for this.  I did not want it loaded on my system.  But it was there.

Not having any use for Sirius (I listen to AM, FM and my iphone) I didn't use it and let the trial period expire.

But did Sirius go away.  No it didn't.  Ever since, when I want to switch sources, e.g. from AM to FM as I often do while driving, I have to toggle through the useless Sirius station and since I did not order it, a dialogue box/advertisement comes up telling me "You can order Sirius...."
and I have to press "OK" to get that damned advertisement box away.

This means that EVERY TIME I want to just operate my car radio and switch sources, a pop-up add from Sirius impede the process.  EVERY TIME!  I can not get rid of this damned thing.  I've complained to Volkswagon...nothing helps.

Add to that the internet searching in Sirius reveals that tons of people have been stuck with Sirius, unable to cancel their subscription.

So, yeah, I really, really hate Sirius.

Right On! rodman99999

more sats in orbit or extended bandwith for openers.
I miss the old XM Radio.

@jafant -  Perhaps(one day) they'll figure that out and improve the service, IF those that are affected, call it to their attention.   

I sure enjoy sat radio- rodman, but, there are way too many channels competing for a very limited bandwidth. Looking back, XM radio and Sirius should have remained (2) separate companies. This result would have kept their respective satellites in orbit.

A few years back I was driving a Tahoe, with satellite radio(free year with vehicle purchase). I listened to BB King’s Blues station, almost exclusively and it was great. You guys have persuaded me, that the years since have not been good to the technology/service, and Internet feed, the way to go. Thanks!

rodman -
I subscribe to Sirius/XM and listen in my car.  For listening to FM radio in my home system I have an inexpensive Grace internet tuner.  I tune into to stations such as WDCB (Chicago) and KKJZ (Newport Beach CA) for jazz.  The fidelity is more than adequate, and there's no cost beyond the price of the tuner (unless you opt to donate to the stations of choice).

Just a thought in case you hadn't considered this option.

Gave up on Sirius earlier this year after 10 years of poor reception and near constant dropouts.  I live in an apartment in NYC and even with an external antenna mounted to the child guards on my windows aimed at where the Sirius satellite was supposed to be, reception was awful.

I had the Tivoli Sirius radio.  Not worth the trouble.

Rich 

rodman99999

Has anyone found a Sirius(XM) tuner, that provides quality reception/fidelity, through one’s home audio system?

If you listen to Sirius/XM, you’ll get much better fidelity from the online stream than from the low-bitrate satellite signal.

I'd recommend a source component that can stream internet radio. Much more music available from anywhere you can imagine.

I have had XM Radio since near it's inception, truck driver 150,000 miles a year at night , and can not live without it, but not for the quality of music but the vast amount of music available. I use it for sports, sports talk radio and news but when I do listen to music it is usually Little Stevies Underground Garage or Tom Petties Buried treasure weekly program, I also use it in my Grandsons bedroom, he is here a lot, to play classical music as he sleeps, have done this since his inception and he is 5. I am now retired and have it in my new P/U, pool house, garage and a boombox in my grandsons bedroom.

I don’t know if the signal they provide has enough data bitrate  to ever get a sound quality we would prefer. I subscribe in my vehicle only and with the road noise I find it adequate. I used to have it my garage and still would, but use Sonos and that serves well there. 

I got Sirius free with my then new Porsche - when the trial was over, I subscribed for another year.  Truth be told, FM sounds better on some stations than does Sirius.  I have a Burmeister system in the car and listen to classical music when I'm driving, ...the local station sounds better and is free.