Okay. Now give me a proper app instead of this stupid downloader in the system preferences...
Google Play Music on the App Store
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Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#32I've been trying out a different music service every few months, here's something interesting I found. Number of songs: - Xbox Music 30 million. - Apple iTunes 26 million. - Amazon MP3 25 million. - Spotify 20 million. - Rdio 20 million. - Google Music 18 million. I've most recently been using Google Music since I can upload songs albums which aren't available in their library (e.g. Beatles). However, Xbox Music is p…
Regarding Xbox Music, I thought it was too good to be true. Fine print: Free streaming limited to 10 hours/month after 6 months Understandable, TANSTAAFL. 6 months is still great value, MS should definitely market this more.
Good catch. I guess I hadn't used it long enough to run into those limitations. FYI they have an Android and iOS app as well as an incredibly nicely designed web player. http://music.xbox.com
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> "Still infinitely better than the stock music app" I've always found the iOS Music app superior to pretty much everything else (including Play). Obviously it doesn't have streaming but as a player the UI is much better. I find Play quite confusing and it wastes a lot of space (e.g. the artists screen - I don't need to see a photo of the artist with their name, it doesn't add any value).
Music app requires iTunes.
What does it require iTunes for?
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#34A good start. No iPad version or landscape. Still infinitely better than the stock music app
> No iPad version I really wonder why Google does this. It took them months to release the iPad version of their Maps app, with very few UI differences. There's something broken about that workflow. Not quite as bad as the oft-promised Google Drive for Linux, but still.
They have to support the iPhone because it's almost half the smartphone users in the US. They don't need to support the iPad because they don't think of it as an important platform.
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#35If Apple ever rolls out a subscription music service this will be removed from the App Store, right? Or is it that you just can't sign up for Google Play Music through the iOS app?
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#36Still not available in Canada.
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#37Still not available in Canada.
Re: Google Play Music on the App Store
#38I've been trying out a different music service every few months, here's something interesting I found. Number of songs: - Xbox Music 30 million. - Apple iTunes 26 million. - Amazon MP3 25 million. - Spotify 20 million. - Rdio 20 million. - Google Music 18 million. I've most recently been using Google Music since I can upload songs albums which aren't available in their library (e.g. Beatles). However, Xbox Music is p…
There are two big issues with quoted catalog sizes.
#1 - Catalog sizes are inflated for international services
Services in multiple countries have larger catalogs because they include content in local languages. This means much of the catalog is there, but less useful for you (unless, of course, you're into German polkas or Swedish midsummer dances). XBox and Spotify do tally all of these up to arrive at their totals.
#2 - The full catalog in international services isn't usually available to you
At least on Spotify, you cannot access all of the items in the catalog of another country (e.g. with a US account, you cannot access all of the Dutch catalog, I tried). I'm assuming this is also the case for XBox. They list the total, but access is limited by billing address or geo location.
In that context I suggest that you and everyone else checks out the mother of all streaming services, Rhapsody (18MM songs, US only, i.e. these are actually 18MM songs available to you). I've tried the others, but time and again I found Rhapsody's catalog to be somehow bigger, more older albums, more classical music, etc.
Note: I've been a Rh member since 2004 (longer if you count listen.com). Use it on my Android, iOS, Desktop and Sonos. Haven't bought a CD since I joined (except Dutch ones, of course)
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#39... and only 24 weeks after it was promised "within weeks."
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#40I've been trying out a different music service every few months, here's something interesting I found. Number of songs: - Xbox Music 30 million. - Apple iTunes 26 million. - Amazon MP3 25 million. - Spotify 20 million. - Rdio 20 million. - Google Music 18 million. I've most recently been using Google Music since I can upload songs albums which aren't available in their library (e.g. Beatles). However, Xbox Music is p…
Deezer - 30 million