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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 pgm8705 »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #52
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…

> What does YouTube have to do with Google Play Music anyway? YouTube is ad supported, Google Play isn't. There is no cross-over. There is actually cross-over, whether you like it or not (most people don't). Youtube Music Key: https://www.youtube.com/musickey http://lifehacker.com/whats-the-point-of-youtube-music-key-1...

It's pretty nice to not have to deal with ads while watching live shows, music videos, etc on youtube. For me it was a welcomed addition to what I was already paying for.

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Post by slantyyz »

fenomas wrote: post #31

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?

I'm kinda surprised, it's working for me in Canada even though it's only supposed to be for the US.

Also I don't understand what they mean by "ad supported". How will that work? I am not a paid user, and I've been listening for almost an hour and still haven't heard one ad yet.

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Post by kolev »

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…

I want to add Last.fm scrobbling - I don't understand why Apple, Amazon, and Google ignore this.

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Post by fizzbatter »

chrisfosterelli wrote: post #35
dimino wrote: post #8

Why 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!

Fwiw, Songza is actually in Google Music. Google bought Songza a while back, and a couple/few months later Songza playlists were available in Google Music.

It was nice because i could then cache my favorite Songza playlists and cache them on my Google Music App. Handy

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Post by spankalee »

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…

A family plan is so sorely needed, even more so on other the Play properties. I don't buy Play books because I can't share them. TV shows are a pain because we have to watch every episode together.

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Post by zer0zzz »

kbhomes wrote: post #62
rhodysurf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Hi there, do you know what's up with HTML5 audio lately?

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Post by ossreality »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #52
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…

> What does YouTube have to do with Google Play Music anyway? YouTube is ad supported, Google Play isn't. There is no cross-over. There is actually cross-over, whether you like it or not (most people don't). Youtube Music Key: https://www.youtube.com/musickey http://lifehacker.com/whats-the-point-of-youtube-music-key-1...

Why would anyone dislike having ads removed on youtube for free after purchasing Google Play Music? lolwutt

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

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Post by spankalee »

andmarios wrote: post #17

A bit offtopic but I am a Google Play Music subscriber. I switched to them over Spotify because they had a much better UI and UX. I use these music services at the radio mode mostly and I am pretty sure Spotify's designers primary concern was how to make users' experience miserable. Unfortunately Google seems to follow the trend nowadays. Take for example the Play Music Radio Page. There is a list with photos and tit…

We have a very active dogfood group internally.

It's likely, even with a lot of internal users, that none of us have hit the text selection problem, or haven't reported it (or there's some technical or prioritization reason for it). I'll look into it and report it to the group though!

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