Annoying thing is that searching for "Google Play Music" (the name of the app) brings up a bunch of other junk apps first.
Google Play Music on the App Store
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Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#52I 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.
Isn't "pin music to device" what the little orange down-pointing arrow does in the Play Music app?
It is. But, I need to be able to do it from the web app, I don't want to have to go through hundreds of albums on my device and do it. I want to do put $(".pin_button").click() in my Chrome console and be done with it.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't "pin music to device" what the little orange down-pointing arrow does in the Play Music app?
It is. But, I need to be able to do it from the web app, I don't want to have to go through hundreds of albums on my device and do it. I want to do put $(".pin_button").click() in my Chrome console and be done with it.
Ah I see. Hey that's a pretty good feature request.
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#54The killer feature of Google Music is that uploaded music integrates well with subscribed music.
If you have an album that is not on Google's "all access" catalog, you can buy it from somewhere, upload to Google, and then this music is accessible from everywhere. Just like the music from the subscription catalog. I believe (not sure) that Google even integrates your uploaded music in generated radio playlists.
For someone who buys albums on local concerts, this is a killer feature. Many albums do not appear on any subscription catalogues, or they are not available in [YOUR REGION], or the labels wait months before they release a new album in the catalogues.
When I was using Spotify, I had a playlist of my favorite jazz songs minus the songs not on Spotify, minus the songs not available in Austria. And after two months, 1/4 of the songs were greyed out and did not play anymore because the label had decided to remove these songs from my region.
Now I just have a playlist with my favorite songs.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
But large-screen maps is a lot more useful than large-screen music UI.
Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#56Annoying thing is that searching for "Google Play Music" (the name of the app) brings up a bunch of other junk apps first.
I'm sure that will probably change over the next few days.
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#57I'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…
Is "Radio" supposed to be Rdio?
Yes, I blame auto correct! http://rdio.com
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#58Music services I have tried: Google Music, Xbox Music, Spotify, and iTunes. After using each for over three months. I have stuck with Google Music. Why I did go with the big G? It was the ability to upload all my music (up to 20,000) songs to the cloud. This plus Google All Music, covers my music need well! The ability to upload my own music to the cloud strikes a good balance for me. I hated having Spotify and not finding what I was looking for. Then I was stuck transferring MP3s to my phone. Now, my library syncs from my iMac to Google.
Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#59I'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.
I'd exhaust that quota after just a couple work days!
Why are they being so stingy with just- 6 months?
Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#60I'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…
At least on iPhone, I much prefer the Spotify interface over the Rdio one. I figured I would give Rdio for a month and I'm already missing the Spotify app. In particular the Search in the Rdio app is abysmal.
Second. I jumped from Rdio to Spotify just for that. I don't understand why people rate Rdio as the best app when basic things like search is broken: search for something, see some bad results, go back to change search, sorry, your search term is gone. Also, the Rdio is app is way too flat and there is big lack of context hint. Often time, I don't know where I am and how to get back to the "parent view", or if there is one.