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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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These activity based stations/playlists are all available on Songza... Which, by the way, is free and ad-free. Not sure what I'm missing, here.

Google bought Songza last year

Right. The playlists are the same, the activities are the same. Songza still doesn't have ads -- but this does.

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

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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 agree with almost all of these, except that I like the new UI.

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

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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?

You may not have noticed if you use an adblocker, but your Google Music subscription now removes ads on music videos on YouTube (as well as the ability to save videos offline on your Android device)

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

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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.

You can use the Google Play Music Chrome extension[1] to fix that. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-music/...

Yep. It has other features that I never use, but the media key functionality is great.

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

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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.

There's also https://github.com/tgwizard/sls

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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!

Thanks! I really want to use it so Ill be looking out for future releases

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Personally I prefer Spotify over Google Play Music or Apple Music, I don't know, I really care about startups and I think Google and Apple becoming to a hungry companies which eats other ones idea with their unlimited budget.

LOL You care about startups? Then you should care about their investors....which are the music labels.

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Is there a reason why no one has tried to add 10 to 30 second spots to these streaming services? Is the temptation to have ad spots after every song too great to resist? Or are ad spots just too hard to measure and often times ineffective?

I remember using Spotify many years ago, and back then they played an ad spot every few songs (not every song), so it has been tried at least.

Isn't that also how Pandora (free tier) works?

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If you have iOS, then wait 7 more days until Apple Music is coming out. My Spotify premium thing expired after 1 year now, so I have tried out all music services out there this month. My conclusion is that if Apple Music does not provide the integration I am seeking for (since I have an iPhone), I will just go back to Spotify. I am currently on the Google Play Music trial. It is pretty good, but I do not like the "An…

What "integration" are you seeking?

Mostly the one with my car. For example, in the car all my Itunes Radio channels show up. So I don't have to use my phone to select those channels. I wouldn't care as much if at least ONE of those millions of music apps would provide a landscape mode.
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