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

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Post by andmarios »

spankalee wrote: post #105
andmarios wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please do, thank you very much! This is an issue only on the radio page currently. With spotify you can't select text anywhere. It was one of the most serious shortcomings for me because when I listen to a song and want to learn more about it, the web-browser way is “select -> right click -> search with google”. :)

After a quick look the only place I couldn't select text was on the radio station cards, after you choose an activity (probably because the whole card is a link). Are there others?

This is the only one I found so far. The real problem with the radio station cards' page is that although you show me some songs, I have no way to play any of them, either directly (1 click) or indirectly (2-3 clicks).

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

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Post by barronlroth »

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…

You can request Developer status and they'll remove the deauthorization limit.

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

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Post by jakebasile »

on_and_off wrote: post #111
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 ?

They did for a while, and then put it back. It is still there (at least the text on the web client says so).

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Post by jsolson »

philtar wrote: post #108
on_and_off wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You keep "simplifying" away functionality. Could you explain what you have lost exactly ? >The offline playback stuff continues to be pretty clunky to set up. What is your issue with it ? In my experience, it works fairly well. I am genuinely curious

I pinned some albums to download them to my device. I paused that for a bit. .... I don't how to make it start downloading them again.

Sidebar > Settings > Manage Downloads (at least on Android).

I agree that this is sub-optimal, but I think up until recently it was actually impossible unless you started another download and tapped the notification.

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

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Post by karlgrz »

kolev wrote: post #73
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.

I use the last.fm app and it detects everything very well from Google Play, both from the All Access service and my own downloaded songs. Have you tried that yet?

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

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Post by jakebasile »

barronlroth wrote: post #122
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…

You can request Developer status and they'll remove the deauthorization limit.

I couldn't find anything about this through some searching. Do you have any link with further information?

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

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Post by oqnet »

jdjb wrote: post #23
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…

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".

Weird I've done that before but I didn't even know until i went back to the other device. It's only happened twice that I left it running on a radio station though.

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Post by jakebasile »

toephu2 wrote: post #112
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?

Probably a small percentage, but with competing services having no such restrictions I don't see why GPM should.

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Post by adrusi »

baldfat wrote: post #118
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 fea…

There used to be a feature in the youtube app for android to enable background play. It was removed because now they want you to pay for it. That's not to like.

No ads is nice, but useless for anyone who is willing/able to install an ad blocker on their phone. You can promote content producers more effectively by spending the money you would drop on a subscription on buying an album, going to a show, subscribing on Twitch or becoming a patron on Gratipay anyway.

Offline access is nice, but other commentors claim it's "clunky", and if it's not especially convenient, then it doesn't give me anything I havent been able to do for the last decade with youtube downloader apps.

So really all it does is make the mobile background play a paid feature, which is obnoxious.

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

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Post by driverdan »

ericdykstra wrote: post #92

I will never pay for one of these music streaming services. You would think in a time when basic necessities are extremely cheap for a significant portion of the world population, people would be more willing to spend money on art. But instead, the vast majority would rather get something for free than pay for it. And the people who pay the $10/month for the convenience of Spotify or Google Play Music or Apple's musi…

> don't care that only pennies of that actually goes to the artists

This isn't a problem with the streaming services, it's a problem with publisher contracts. Streaming services pay out 70% of their revenue but publishers take the majority of it.

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