I do know what you mean, but dial up is a world where patience is the virtue
I can tell you downloading a song is a whole lot faster than trying to buffer it, takes about 5 minutes to download a song, as I recall.
Sometimes, even when you can't get broadband you can get ISDN, which is double the speed of dialup but not the lightning speeds of broadband.
Don't know whether you are on dialup due to money or location, so I'll add that sometimes ISDN is available when broadband is not... this doubles your dialup speed, and requires its own modem (usually included in the service)
TJ