What's shocking is that this is news. Apple sucks.
Care to elaborate on that? All those downvotes aren't coming out of nowhere.
Google Play Music on the App Store
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#22I won't be switching from Rdio until the web app has a way to pin music to devices. I think Google Music is definitely a more featureful product and would use its ability to upload my own music in some cases. But I can't be bothered to go through all my favorite albums on a little mobile screen and pin them.
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#23A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
> No iPad version I really wonder why Google does this. It took them months to release the iPad version of their Maps app, with very few UI differences. There's something broken about that workflow. Not quite as bad as the oft-promised Google Drive for Linux, but still.
Incentive? Do people use Maps and Music on iPad to the extent that they do on iPhone? Personally, I only really use both when I'm on the move - I'm very unlikely to pull out a tablet at that point.
This applies a lot more to Maps than it does to Music, of course.
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#24I've been trying out a different music service every few months, here's something interesting I found. Number of songs: - Xbox Music 30 million. - Apple iTunes 26 million. - Amazon MP3 25 million. - Spotify 20 million. - Rdio 20 million. - Google Music 18 million. I've most recently been using Google Music since I can upload songs albums which aren't available in their library (e.g. Beatles). However, Xbox Music is p…
Regarding Xbox Music, I thought it was too good to be true. Fine print: Free streaming limited to 10 hours/month after 6 months
Understandable, TANSTAAFL. 6 months is still great value, MS should definitely market this more.
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#25A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
>> "Still infinitely better than the stock music app" I've always found the iOS Music app superior to pretty much everything else (including Play). Obviously it doesn't have streaming but as a player the UI is much better. I find Play quite confusing and it wastes a lot of space (e.g. the artists screen - I don't need to see a photo of the artist with their name, it doesn't add any value).
You can stream music with iTunes Radio. And You can kind of stream music (music already in your iTunes library) if you use iTunes Match.
Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#26A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
>> "Still infinitely better than the stock music app" I've always found the iOS Music app superior to pretty much everything else (including Play). Obviously it doesn't have streaming but as a player the UI is much better. I find Play quite confusing and it wastes a lot of space (e.g. the artists screen - I don't need to see a photo of the artist with their name, it doesn't add any value).
Music app requires iTunes.
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#27A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
>> "Still infinitely better than the stock music app" I've always found the iOS Music app superior to pretty much everything else (including Play). Obviously it doesn't have streaming but as a player the UI is much better. I find Play quite confusing and it wastes a lot of space (e.g. the artists screen - I don't need to see a photo of the artist with their name, it doesn't add any value).
If you subscribe to iTunes match then it will stream any music from your uploaded library.
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#28A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
>> "Still infinitely better than the stock music app" I've always found the iOS Music app superior to pretty much everything else (including Play). Obviously it doesn't have streaming but as a player the UI is much better. I find Play quite confusing and it wastes a lot of space (e.g. the artists screen - I don't need to see a photo of the artist with their name, it doesn't add any value).
Music.app has a few streaming options. You can stream songs you've bought on iTunes. You can listen to iTunes Radio. You can pay $25/year and stream any MP3 you possess on your home computer and also then get iTunes Radio commercial free.
edit: I'm pretty sure iTunes actually uses a cached progressive download, but the difference is academic.
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#29I;ve been using Google Music on my android device and it is by far the best music app I've used (vs. Pandora, spotify, last.fm, etc). The killer feature for me is that it learns what I like and the radio stations it generates are pretty awesome. This may be helped by the fact that I uploaded my entire mp3 library as well.
Yeah, Google music's radio stations are superior to those on Spotify etc - it seems to pick better music, and you can reorder/delete the playlist etc.
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#30Neat, maybe I can convince my wife to use it. I haven't even touched my iPod since I started using Play Music (on Android) - although my biggest beef is that you can't store your offline music on an SD card.
I really wish the Google Experience devices would start shipping with more storage. I have a 64G iPhone because I don't want to be concerned about how much storage I'm using (right now it's around the 32GB mark). SD cards are a total hack and just complicate the UX.
Agree about the UX. It'd be great if they could allow you to expand storage but also abstract away the separation between SD card / internal storage.