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Google Offering 4-Month Free Trial of Play Music Streaming Service

If you love Korean music, Apple Music is by far the best out of the bunch. And because I like Korean music, I would have to stick with Apple Music.

In terms of US/Brit music, every competitor is about the same except for Tidal when Beyoncé and other artist exclusive albums are there.
 
As much as I love the YouTube Red aspect of GPM, Spotify will always have my business. I'm so used to the UI and The Daily Mix is one of its best features.

But I'll keep this going for 4 months and see how it keeps up.
 
tonyr6 said:
Play Music has poor sound quality which I why I did not keep it. Also I don't care about ad free YouTube as all I watch is a tech or science video now and then. Apple Music has better sound quality until I tried Spotify 3 months for $0.99 and the sound quality is even better too bad I have to say with AM as Spotify has much less songs then even Play Music has.
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I got the 4 month trial when they offered it in July....tried it once and never used it again.
 
KanosWRX said:
Do you subscribe to cable? Netflix/Hulu? Ever rent an apartment? Lots of good reasons. I would rather have access to every song then own a small subset.
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Whilst I see where you are going with that it’s not even close to being the same. I’ll take the, Ever rent an apartment?, thing for you as you’e chosen a bad example here;
I have the money sitting in my bank right now to go out and very likely buy and 'own' any one of the tracks offered by Google Play Music.
I do NOT have the money sitting in my bank right now to go out and very likely buy and 'own’ an apartment. I suspect a lot of others don’t either.

But nice try.
 
H2SO4 said:
Whilst I see where you are going with that it’s not even close to being the same. I’ll take the, Ever rent an apartment?, thing for you as you’e chosen a bad example here;
I have the money sitting in my bank right now to go out and very likely buy and 'own' any one of the tracks offered by Google Play Music.
I do NOT have the money sitting in my bank right now to go out and very likely buy and 'own’ an apartment. I suspect a lot of others don’t either.

But nice try.
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For as long as you keep paying $9.99 a month you as good as own the largest music collection known to man. I have 800+ slabs of vinyl and over 1400 CDs, I"m old school but if I were a youngster today then Spotify or Google Play would likely be my route...and why not. It's a cracking idea. What with unlimited music on tap, online dating and the internet young folk have never had it so good.
 
Don't tell Taylor Swift if FREE means music artists are not getting paid for 4 months from Google!


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Google is offering four free months of Play Music as part of its Cyber Week deals. The four-month trial includes a YouTube Red subscription for ad-free YouTube streaming and can be cancelled at any time. The Play music streaming service usually costs $9.99 per month, giving members access to over 35 million songs.

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Google recently announced an overhaul of its Google Play Music streaming platform, with new contextually aware, opt-in music recommendation features that promise a more personal music listening experience.

Users who have had a free trial or cancelled a Play Music membership in the past aren't eligible for the Cyber Week promotion, but that doesn't stop anyone curious to see what's changed from creating a new Google account to take advantage of the offer.

Article Link: Google Offering 4-Month Free Trial of Play Music Streaming Service
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Didn't see a cyber week 4-month trial promotion at the Finnish site, but a free 3-month trial, so not bad. I'll take that right when my 3-month free trial of Spotify Premium I got from my operator is nearing its end. Before that I had the Apple Music 3-month trial. :D

Good thing is on Google Play you can cancel the subscription right away and still keep the trial period.
 
sunking101 said:
For as long as you keep paying $9.99 a month you as good as own the largest music collection known to man. I have 800+ slabs of vinyl and over 1400 CDs, I"m old school but if I were a youngster today then Spotify or Google Play would likely be my route...and why not. It's a cracking idea. What with unlimited music on tap, online dating and the internet young folk have never had it so good.
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My point still stands. The example was flawed.
 
It's not really necessary to argue over whether or not a subscription service makes sense, it is mostly a matter of personal use case. If you listen to the same music over and over again, it's better to buy the albums (digitally or not, your choice). However, if you like to listen to different music and not be restricted by your own collection, the subscription service will be your choice. You will always be able to choose your music and your service provider. As long as you see it worth 10 bucks a month AND don't mind losing all of the music once you unsubscribe, it makes sense.

Consider a lifetime use, 70 years of streaming costs about the same as 400-850 albums. Most people won't buy that many albums, but you could easily listen to many more than that during 70 years. So it'll end up costing more, but you'll get more.
 
H2SO4 said:
My point still stands. The example was flawed.
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If I may jump in, after having read all the posts, I think the apartment example is fitting. Actinide's basic premise was that why rent when, at the end of the day, you don't own anything? It had nothing to do with whether you can afford it or not. When you rent an apartment, you own nothing. BUT, if you want to go the "I can't afford it" route, then people subscribe (rent) to music services because they can't afford the thousands of albums they listen to. They rent apartments because they can't afford to buy one.

Doesn't really matter, though, as the "why rent" arguement is pointless to begin with.
 
dmylrea said:
If I may jump in, after having read all the posts, I think the apartment example is fitting. Actinide's basic premise was that why rent when, at the end of the day, you don't own anything? It had nothing to do with whether you can afford it or not. When you rent an apartment, you own nothing. BUT, if you want to go the "I can't afford it" route, then people subscribe (rent) to music services because they can't afford the thousands of albums they listen to. They rent apartments because they can't afford to buy one.

Doesn't really matter, though, as the "why rent" arguement is pointless to begin with.
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Funny, good post. Really.

I'm older now, and needed to move when my building was sold. I do use Play/Red and it's not too bad - all I had to do was pack my iPhone and my subscription went with me, just like that. I do have a lot of really hard to find CDs too, and I'm really, really getting tired of lugging them around... :confused:
 
Well that offer didn't last long. I thought it would still be there on Cyber Monday since the article said "Cyber week".... :/

Also missed it last time I saw it offered. Guess I'm a little slow on the uptake....
 
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