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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 on_and_off »

jakebasile wrote: post #11

I enjoy Google Play Music and use it daily (the paid version). I prefer it over Spotify/Rdio/Beats because it works better with Google Now voice actions, and I can run it well on every device I care to. My remaining problem with it is their device limit. You can have 10 total devices, but you can deauthorize only 4 per year. This sounds like a lot but if you switch phones often or flash new ROMs you can use it up pre…

Didn't they remove the 4 per year limit pretty much instantly after the initial backlash ?

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Post by toephu2 »

jakebasile wrote: post #11

I enjoy Google Play Music and use it daily (the paid version). I prefer it over Spotify/Rdio/Beats because it works better with Google Now voice actions, and I can run it well on every device I care to. My remaining problem with it is their device limit. You can have 10 total devices, but you can deauthorize only 4 per year. This sounds like a lot but if you switch phones often or flash new ROMs you can use it up pre…

how much of the general public do you think flashes ROMs?

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

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Post by on_and_off »

dragonwriter wrote: post #98
mattmanser wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UI/UX is subjective. My recent thoughts on the new UX from google is that it's bloody awful. When I just want to listen to some random music I just play my thumbs up playlist. But every time I open Google play, you have to click to open the hamburger menu because menus are no longer trendy on desktop sites. Want to have a list of what's playing be your homepage? Impossible in the new google play, you can only view th…

> Their algo is bloody awful, it seems to use one song as the basis for "I'm feeling lucky" and never mixes up genres. Okay, so is the problem that "I'm feeling lucky" is bad because it "never mixes up genres", or... > if you click "I'm feeling lucky" there's a 20% chance google music will only play me female artists. And it will spiral into genres I don't even like and have no songs thumbed up, purely because they'r…

This is why such a feature is very hard to get right :-) .

So far all the music tastes detection algorithms I have seen are pretty awful.

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Post by cheald »

spankalee wrote: post #93
Mahn wrote: post #22

I'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?

I'm biased because I work for Google and dogfood Play Music, but for me it's a great combination of: * A free music locker you can upload your songs to * iTunes-like store, with non-DRM'ed files and offline support * Spotify-like subscription service, with offline support * Pandora-like radio stations, with the addition of "I'm Feeling Lucky" radio that adapts to your listening habits, and offline support :) * Songza…

> What it lacks is Spotify-like social features: profiles, activity, etc.

Please never add this. I don't want my radio to be a social network. The "profiles and activity" is explicitly why I don't use Spotify.

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Post by dabernathy89 »

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…

offline works great for me on Android and is pretty simple to set up. are you on iOS?

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Post by baldfat »

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...

> whether you like it or not (most people don't)

I say YouTube is probably the number one way most teenagers actually listen to music. This isn't music videos mostly. It is pictures of the cover art and the music. I seriously listen to my music through YouTube in another and I am rarely disappointed in not finding the music I am looking for.

What is not to like. I can listen with the screen turned off. I use this feature to listen to one off podcast I would like to list to and the YouTube play list made by users are amazing. Also to have no ads while listening to YouTube music is great.

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Post by Aldo_MX »

bluehazed wrote: post #24
Aldo_MX wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sound quality leaves much to be desired.

How? It's 320kbps.

Bitrate doesn't necessarily correlate with audio quality, you can even perceive noise or a drop of quality in the audio of the less popular songs.

I'm seriously thinking that Google just licensed the audio they're streaming, but they didn't even care about getting proper audio files and they're simply streaming the audio their users uploaded.

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