Where can you sign up? I tried on the page linked from the blog. I tried from the Google Play app on my old Nexus 5.
Maybe I haven't had enough coffee this morning?
Google Begins Rolling Out Google Play Music Family Plan
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#72Google Play Music, YouTube Red and YouTube Music is my favorite service. I have tried Spotify and Amazon and others. Google has two killer features. 1) I can upload my own music (20,000 songs) for free and stream for free. I have eclectic taste and some of my music isn't in the 35 million songs available. 2) The YouTube (Red (no ads), Music and Gaming) really are great on mobile.
3) The vast amount of content available for offline/background play on Youtube. Almost anything ever recorded is available - including live shows, unofficial remixes and background beats.
3) Podcast and Lectures are listenable on Phones that are on YouTube only. Due to background play.
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#73When will they start selling music in FLAC?
When our ears evolve to support such formats.
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#74When will they start selling music in FLAC?
When our ears evolve to support such formats.
You don't need FLAC for listening. It's needed for storing master copies and encoding to other codecs when you need to. Same feature that audio CDs always offered, and which was gutted by services which only provide some lossy codec as an option.
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#75$15/mo for six users is actually a really great deal - That works out to $2.50/person/mo. I honestly wasn't expecting anything this great.
It's the same deal Apple Music offers, so it should not be so surprising.
Which is why I do get the excitement. Are their selection much bigger?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
When our ears evolve to support such formats.
You don't need FLAC for listening. It's needed for storing master copies and encoding to other codecs when you need to. Same feature that audio CDs always offered, and which was gutted by services which only provide some lossy codec as an option.
Isn't google play music a streaming service though? It really doesn't seem like the place for that.
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#77Spotify does not have family plan ? Such a bullshit - http://i.imgur.com/BGhi6uk.png . This is what I call paid article. Good job, TechMunch.
And finally a 'deal' that existing premium members can take advantage of. Since I'm forking over £10 a month anyway I might as well pretend to have a family too.
Although I do enjoy signing up to the 3-month 99p deals and moving over my playlists each time.
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#78US only.
It's actually US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France and Germany.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't need FLAC for listening. It's needed for storing master copies and encoding to other codecs when you need to. Same feature that audio CDs always offered, and which was gutted by services which only provide some lossy codec as an option.
Isn't google play music a streaming service though? It really doesn't seem like the place for that.
What stops them from offering an option to get files as well? I always prefer to have my music backed up and available on my devices without relying on any cloud services.
I view streaming as a convenience, and not as an approach that requires one to forgo having a DRM-free backup.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it's arbitrary; Google Apps is an enterprisey product, where stability is prioritized over new features. Regular people who want to use their own domains are an exception, and certainly not the market they are going after. I say this as someone who has used Apps in the past, but I've given up on it since.
I fail to see how enabling a different billing plan for a music streaming service they already offer to Apps customers has anything to do with "stability" of the core products that enterprise users rely on.
Generally speaking, when you start your statement with the admission that you're ignorant of the thing you are about to slam, it's a signal that you may not be making a great case.