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

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Post by chrisper » Wed, Jun 24, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #171

chrisper wrote: post #49

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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…

> "Android" app on my iPhone How can you tell it's an "Android" app?

Well, Google here obviously put the same design onto all platforms when it comes to Google Play Music (Web,iPhone , Android). So the app on the iPhone reminds me very much of Lollipop (which I had right before I got my iPhone 6).

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

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Post by vosper » Wed, Jun 24, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #169

vosper wrote: post #155

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I agree that the offline playback is clunky. I don't want to have to remember to pin stuff, or try to build up a cache. I just want to allocate some local storage and have most-recently-played cache of songs. If I allocate a couple of GB of storage that would be plenty of music for a road trip.

Is that a lot different from what happens now? Right now if you check the "Cache during playback", you'll get the recent songs saved. Also anything that's pinned is always saved. What goes out of cache is a bit magic, but it's unlikely to be the very recent stuff.

I think the difference that I would like is to have the offline cache on the phone sync to my playlist history across devices. So, if I'd been listening on the web client, or another device, then I'd like my phone to download all those recently-played songs and just have them available.

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

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Post by RobotCaleb » Wed, Jun 24, 2015, 7:53 PM UTC

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…

Can I listen to what I want when I want? I tried looking for particular artists in Play Music and all I get is "X Artist Radio. This will play songs by blah, blah, blah, X Artist, blah". I just want to listen to X Artist. Why is this so hard?

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

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Post by baldfat » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 12:32 AM UTC

adrusi wrote: post #129

baldfat wrote: post #118

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> 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 T…

It was never an official API it was a goo hack.

http://kaeruct.github.io/posts/how-to-use-the-youtube-js-api...