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Google Announces 'Google Play Music All Access' Subscription Service
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"Vinyl" is the plural form for records. I just download everything I want for my car, or use Bandcamp for streams.
Canada?
Boo! No luck in Canada.
Despite being 100% an Apple man, I was going to sign up for this. A $2 saving per month in perpetuity is worth it, especially as it seems Apple is going to cripple their service (if rumours are to be believed...) Then I would cancel if the iTunes one really is better.
But I get the url "Unsupported country" with the wonderful message "The Google Play music player is currently available in select territories."
Boo! No luck in Canada.
Despite being 100% an Apple man, I was going to sign up for this. A $2 saving per month in perpetuity is worth it, especially as it seems Apple is going to cripple their service (if rumours are to be believed...) Then I would cancel if the iTunes one really is better.
But I get the url "Unsupported country" with the wonderful message "The Google Play music player is currently available in select territories."
beat me to it!
The only thing that interests me is the $7.99 price tag for early adopters. If that's permanent, and the service is as good as Spotify, then I'd think about making the switch.
Does Spotify enable you to upload your existing collection to the cloud for free and then seamlessly combine the two?
PS. I only buy vinyl records...
superior sound, art, and the ability to resell (usually at a profit)
Plus you get the added bonus of looking hip as **** as you stroll down the street carrying the player.
Even with Spotify, and Rdio I've tried, I just can't get my head around the $9.99 a month. That price seems too high to me. Especially since my iTunes library is filled with music I already like (obviously). This whole discovering music thing is strange. I never had a problem discovering music before. I guess the only real benefit is listening to music I don't have already.
I'm a little confused. I don't see any appreciable difference between free spotify and free pandora. They seem identical to me. Paid spotify though at least allowed me to pick specific songs. I never used paid pandora though. There's also rdio which is a paid service and I haven't used it. Last.fm as well. So what exactly is different between these services (is the difference only when you pay?) and now the new google or proposed Iradio?
One compelling google feature is - you can upload your entire library (well 20K tracks) to the cloud + use their streaming service.
I still have unlimited data + am usually near wifi anyway. So I have my entire library + can access any song without affecting local storage.
Well, not to get too far down a rathole, but I don't pay for Spotify on mobile devices so it costs me $5 a month. iTunes Match is $25/year. Total: $85
Google would cost $95.88. The extra $10.88 per year would just destroy me
It will be a decent deal for people that haven't yet invested in any ecosystem yet. Hard to believe there are that many left, though probably a significant number in developing countries.
So is this out now or have they announced a launch date? And I assume it will run via apps on mobile devices, are they going to support iOS?
Pandora doesn't allow selecting songs on demand (nor does the free version of Spotify), plus this doesn't have ads. Sure, some people will be fine with the free versions, but that doesn't make the paid ones pointless.
True, but there are plenty of people who haven't started using a service like this yet, so they might as well try and capture some of those customers. And the inclusion of your own files in the cloud is nice.
Pandora doesn't allow selecting songs on demand (nor does the free version of Spotify), plus this doesn't have ads. Sure, some people will be fine with the free versions, but that doesn't make the paid ones pointless.
True, but there are plenty of people who haven't started using a service like this yet, so they might as well try and capture some of those customers. And the inclusion of your own files in the cloud is nice.
Yeah I did that with my iTunes library but Spotify didn't have every song, for example The Beatles and Def Leppard. Does Google's service have those artists?
Don't care much for Google apps, such as Google Play Web Content Browser (formerly Chrome) and never really "got" streaming services like the Google Play Music All Access.
Should just call it Google Pay Music All Access. Yeah there's a free ad-supported broadcast service of music/spoken content aka radio. Of course we already have radio, it's called radio.
Should just call it Google Pay Music All Access. Yeah there's a free ad-supported broadcast service of music/spoken content aka radio. Of course we already have radio, it's called radio.
It's cuz there are free alternatives. If you had no choice but to pay, then this would be great. Fortunately, you have the choice.
Surely a misquote? Wouldn't it be better to be guided towards new music you may not have already discovered?
At $8 a month this really is a great deal, I just need it on iOS and also would prefer native desktop apps (like Spotify).
If they ever get around to releasing it in the UK, I'd for sure trail it to see whether I'd want to switchover from Spotify.
If they ever get around to releasing it in the UK, I'd for sure trail it to see whether I'd want to switchover from Spotify.
I must be too old, I don't get the need for this service for a lot of people. I have my old CD's ripped and now available to me via iTunes Match, and using Match I was able to upgrade that low bit rate music that I "acquired" back in he day too. I have my iTunes purchases available via Itunes in the Cloud, as well. I don't spend a $100 a year on new music, in fact a quick look at my purchase history shows that in the last calendar year, I've bought 2 complete albums and 7 songs. I can't see paying a hundie +, to listen to new music. I can see that maybe younger people than I would find this convenient, but as someone who is in his 40's I don't get it. I dread I may have just become that "Get off my lawn you young whippersnappers" guy...aka my dad...