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Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio

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Re: Google Play Music – free, ad-supported radio

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Post by slantyyz »

neves wrote: post #51

My Google play killer feature happened other day and wasn't even announced. They increased the amount of music you can store from 20.000 to 50.000. I have a very large collection of independent Brazilian music. You can't find these kind of music in any streaming service. Now I can have a cloud backup of all my music for free! And I also can here it anywhere. I even bought a new CD reader and resumed to rip my music c…

I thought they did this in February? I specifically joined when it was announced.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/25/google-play-music-50000/

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Post by kbhomes »

rhodysurf wrote: post #37
rsanheim wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Creator of Radiant Player here. Performance and memory issues were a problem in the past and unfortunately have resurfaced in the latest release (1.4.0), but I am looking into them!

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Post by oldmanjay »

makeitsuckless wrote: post #55

ad supported free I wish people would stop echoing that. It would make it so much more possible to have a meaningful discourse about ad supported business models. We don't call anything else that requires something in return "free"

Well sure we do. We call "free software" free, even though it requires that any distributed changes are accompanied with source. Of course, the free software people are also constantly up in arms that the world doesn't use their specific desired definitions of words. I guess you're in good company.

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Post by domdip »

Someone1234 wrote: post #48

This is a nice additional option, but I won't be cancelling my subscription. I hate ads. What I want to see from Google Play Music (aside from a name change) is: - Keep improving music discoverability. It has become better, but could be further improved. - Family plan. I want to pay $15/month and give it to my wife and kid. - Fix the strange YouTube bug, where if I hit pause on Play Music, and then start a YouTube vi…

Yeah "Google Play Music All Access Unlimited" is a truly horrible product name (not to mention un-Googleable if you mix up even one of the words).

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Post by slantyyz »

Roritharr wrote: post #30
mrinterweb wrote: post #21

My 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.

There's also Client For Google Music (Metro app). I am pretty sure it was free when I got it, but it looks like they're charging $8 now.

That it is a Metro app can be a plus or minus. If you want it in a window, you'll have to wait for Win10 or use something like DisplayFusion.

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/client-for-googl...

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Post by _1 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #48

This is a nice additional option, but I won't be cancelling my subscription. I hate ads. What I want to see from Google Play Music (aside from a name change) is: - Keep improving music discoverability. It has become better, but could be further improved. - Family plan. I want to pay $15/month and give it to my wife and kid. - Fix the strange YouTube bug, where if I hit pause on Play Music, and then start a YouTube vi…

> - Family plan. I want to pay $15/month and give it to my wife and kid.

This is what's stopping me from paying for it. I already pay for Pandora, and my wife and I are able to share that. Sharing an entire google account isn't going to happen.

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Post by digi_owl »

mattmanser wrote: post #56
jdjb wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My bigger issue that two clients cannot be listening to music at the same time, even if you're a paying member. I'll often forget to stop streaming the music at work and start listening to it on the bus on the way home. My workstation at work then fights for control of the service with my phone and every other song drops out with "another device is using the service".

And the really stupid thing happens if you try and play a youtube video while listening to music. It freaks out about playing a youtube video at the same time. Whichever genius at Google came up with that one deserves a rapid promotion into the tiers of bureaucracy.

I suspect you need to have a talk to the MPAA/RIAA for that...

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Post by dtparr »

makeitsuckless wrote: post #55

ad supported free I wish people would stop echoing that. It would make it so much more possible to have a meaningful discourse about ad supported business models. We don't call anything else that requires something in return "free"

Don't we? I think most people would describe terrestrial radio, OTA television, etc. as 'free'.
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