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Re: Google Play Music on the App Store

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Post by jimueller »

taopao wrote: post #59
bentcorner wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Umm, so the company that is giving away free streaming is stingy? How would you describe someone who complains about free things, or an unwillingess to pay for a service?

Re: Google Play Music on the App Store

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Post by jamesaguilar »

bookwormAT wrote: post #61
jamesaguilar wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

maybe you could just make one playlist, put all music you have in there, and pin that list on the device? Then you should have all your music and playlists available locally.

Good idea. This might meet my JQuery-able requirement.

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Post by publicfig »

I can't really see this replacing Spotify for my streaming music services. If anything is going to do that, it's going to be Rdio. But I really can see this filling the hole in my phone that is streaming purchased content that isn't available through the streaming service. The fact that iTunes (or Spotify, or Rdio) doesn't have this is pretty disappointing. When I download an album off of Bandcamp, I have to download it to every computer I have iTunes on, and then sync my phone to listen to it. That's difficult, and it means I have slightly different libraries on every device I own. This is a decent enough stopgap until hopefully a better app implements it (preferably Rdio, because I'd love to move to them if it wasn't for their less than stellar music selection in comparison to Spotify).

Re: Google Play Music on the App Store

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Post by sp332 »

smackfu wrote: post #12
tvon wrote: post #5

I'm experiencing a horribly broken login process. * Open login screen * Switch to password app, copy password * Switch back to Google Music, login screen loads again * Enter credentials, 2-step verification screen loads * Switch to Google Authenticator, get 2-step number * Switch back to Google Music, user/password login screen loads again. In short, I cannot authenticate using a single device, I'll have to use a sec…

The auth code is good for 30 seconds, can't you just time it right by getting the code before opening Google Music?

It's actually good for longer than that, since Google's servers allow at least one time period either way.

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Post by moskie »

Oddly enough, the thing that prevents me from fully adopting Google Play Music as my one and only music source is its performance on the desktop.

Perhaps something's wrong with my computer(s), but playing Google Music from a browser window regularly skips when my browser has to do something intensive in another tab. It's also easy for me to accidentally close the tab. And it doesn't interface with my keyboard's media buttons.

Using Google Music via my phone (a Galaxy Nexus) is great, and Play's featureset (purchasing of music, local storage, radio, uploading, etc.) is the best of all the options.

But the desktop performance of Spotify (along with a decent featureset and a good mobile app) is what keeps me a paying customer. If Google Play Music can solve that problem (or if there's already a way to address it of which that I'm not aware), then I would switch.

Re: Google Play Music on the App Store

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Post by Bud »

publicfig wrote: post #56
endemic wrote: post #51

Annoying 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.

More like a few minutes. It's already the first hit, now, if you just search for Google Play.

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Post by einehexe »

ultimoo wrote: post #67

I find it amusing that since Google already had an established ad-based 'services' market before foraying into the mobile space with Android, they invest significant effort into making apps for iOS. Whereas, since Apple has always been in the 'products' market, they don't (have to) invest any effort into the Android ecosystem. I think the first time I was ever exposed to adverts was with iTunes Radio.

Google invests significant effort into making iOS apps because they make more money from them than they do from Android.

Re: Google Play Music on the App Store

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Post by disposition2 »

I subscribed Google Play Music when they first offered the service and enjoyed it but I feel Spotify is much more conducive to 3rd party add-ons, I couldn't find many differences with the subscription based libraries (the ability to upload to google play is nice...but also free) and Spotify actually has an API, Desktop Application, actual 3rd party support. In my experience any 3rd party support (last.fm, etc) in Google Music breaks every release, which was the main reason why I switched back to Spotify. It may be a little more $ each month but I found the advantages Spotify has over GPM were worth the cost.
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