Unfortunately still region locked where I am (Japan).
All the other various streaming services seem to work here - I wonder what the issue is for Google's?
Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio
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#32Now that a portion of the service is going free, I'm interested to see if they start to add offerings to the paid, all access tier. As a paying monthly customer, I'd love to have the option to enable lossless streaming, for example.
Well they did add YouTube Music Key (no ads, background play and offline access for many music videos) pretty recently, but they've done their typical terrible job of publicizing that.
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#33Why is it always a surprise to folks that Google Play Music exists? Everyone talks about Pandora, Spotify, Apple, or Amazon, but Google Play Music is never in the conversation. I use it and it's great .
It probably needs a catchier name and more marketing
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#34My main issue with Google Play Music is that they don't have a desktop app. I wouldn't even care if their desktop app was a wrapper around their HTML player. I just want keyboard music controls from my desktop and the ability to Cmd+Tab to the music app instead of hunting down the browser tab. Without a desktop app, using Google Play Music is disruptive to my workflow.
You can use the Google Play Music Chrome extension[1] to fix that.
[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-music/...
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#35Why is it always a surprise to folks that Google Play Music exists? Everyone talks about Pandora, Spotify, Apple, or Amazon, but Google Play Music is never in the conversation. I use it and it's great .
I definitely agree. I normally use Songza, but while out of country I had to give a different service a try. I did the one month trial, and it was fantastic.
Compared to every other service I've now tried (Songza, Spotify, Grooveshark, Rdio), Play Music is great!
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#36Why is it always a surprise to folks that Google Play Music exists? Everyone talks about Pandora, Spotify, Apple, or Amazon, but Google Play Music is never in the conversation. I use it and it's great .
It probably needs a catchier name and more marketing
> It probably needs a catchier name
What's not catchy about "Google Play Music All Access"? ;)
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#37My main issue with Google Play Music is that they don't have a desktop app. I wouldn't even care if their desktop app was a wrapper around their HTML player. I just want keyboard music controls from my desktop and the ability to Cmd+Tab to the music app instead of hunting down the browser tab. Without a desktop app, using Google Play Music is disruptive to my workflow.
Have you looked at Radiant Player? http://www.sajidanwar.me/radiant-player-mac/
I tried this for a while and it was slow and crashed pretty much every time I used it. Sucks because it was exactly what I needed.
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#38My main issue with Google Play Music is that they don't have a desktop app. I wouldn't even care if their desktop app was a wrapper around their HTML player. I just want keyboard music controls from my desktop and the ability to Cmd+Tab to the music app instead of hunting down the browser tab. Without a desktop app, using Google Play Music is disruptive to my workflow.
On Windows I use Outcold Player. Pretty good Software that seems just limited by Googles non-official API.
It seems they are going out of business soon as the Auth API they based their business on is getting deprecated. :/ its moments like these where i hate how the web turned out.
Re: Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio
#39My main issue with Google Play Music is that they don't have a desktop app. I wouldn't even care if their desktop app was a wrapper around their HTML player. I just want keyboard music controls from my desktop and the ability to Cmd+Tab to the music app instead of hunting down the browser tab. Without a desktop app, using Google Play Music is disruptive to my workflow.
On Windows I use Outcold Player. Pretty good Software that seems just limited by Googles non-official API.
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#40I've been considering subscribing to a music service lately, but there are so many nowadays that I have honestly no idea how to decide. For those of you with experience in this area, what criteria would you recommend? what should I look for, other than the music itself?
Personally, I look to integration. Does it work on the devices you want to use it on? Does it integrate with some other service you want to use it with?
From my experience, most of the large streaming services out there are roughly equivalent on music selection and sound quality, so all that matters is how I can use it, not what I can play on it.