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Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription to Celebrate July 4th
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Well, Inuit have a huge number of names for types of snow, when you have to describe how much privacy your losing, you've got to be creative.
Interesting. I thought Inuit made accounting software, so not sure why they would need so many words for snow.
I've been on the Google Music bandwagon since it launched at the 7.99 early adopter price point.
I own plenty of my own music and Google actually saves me money for the amount of music I listen to in a year. The people on here bashing these services buy a handful of songs in a year, and that's fine. But I'm a listen to full albums kinda person (archaic as it may be) and this buying singles here and there doesn't cut it. And when I do buy a full record I'd prefer it to be the physical version. Lyrics, liner notes, writing credits and any other bonuses contained within.
So I get to sample endless amount of fringe records I may not want to buy but still listen to for the low price on one CD a month and still buy the short-list of hardcore favorite bands I listen to when they come out. It's a perfect marriage.
So call people gullible all you want because it doesn't fit your CASUAL music interests, but I'm still buying the occasional vinyl release when possible. Some of us are a little more involved than that and it can be a money SAVER.
These erroneous blanket statements because of someone's particular use-case that renders everyone's else's invalid annoys me to no end.
Proud owner AND renter of music here. It doesn't have to be one or the other contrary to popular opinion.
I own plenty of my own music and Google actually saves me money for the amount of music I listen to in a year. The people on here bashing these services buy a handful of songs in a year, and that's fine. But I'm a listen to full albums kinda person (archaic as it may be) and this buying singles here and there doesn't cut it. And when I do buy a full record I'd prefer it to be the physical version. Lyrics, liner notes, writing credits and any other bonuses contained within.
So I get to sample endless amount of fringe records I may not want to buy but still listen to for the low price on one CD a month and still buy the short-list of hardcore favorite bands I listen to when they come out. It's a perfect marriage.
So call people gullible all you want because it doesn't fit your CASUAL music interests, but I'm still buying the occasional vinyl release when possible. Some of us are a little more involved than that and it can be a money SAVER.
These erroneous blanket statements because of someone's particular use-case that renders everyone's else's invalid annoys me to no end.
Proud owner AND renter of music here. It doesn't have to be one or the other contrary to popular opinion.
Lots of comments here praising ad-free YouTube Red being included with Google Play Music. And I agree... it sweetens the deal tremendously.
Maybe Apple needs to do something similar.
What if when you subscribed to Apple Music... you also get 100GB of iCloud storage? Or something like that.
Apple Music and Google Play Music both offer plenty of songs... and they are the same price.
But YouTube Red is a hell of a bonus. (plus you get to upload 50,000 songs yourself!)
Maybe Apple needs to do something similar.
What if when you subscribed to Apple Music... you also get 100GB of iCloud storage? Or something like that.
Apple Music and Google Play Music both offer plenty of songs... and they are the same price.
But YouTube Red is a hell of a bonus. (plus you get to upload 50,000 songs yourself!)
I been using Play Music for nearly two years before I decided to try Apple Music during the 3 month trial and even paid for a month but I always keep coming back to Play Music. The suggestions are great. Always finding great older albums from the 70's to 90's I might love instead of pushing the new Kanye West and the paid shill pre-madonna Taylor Swift.
Then unlike every other service even free ones there still is no web player a big disappointment from WWDC. You are still forced to use that bloated pig that is iTunes when listing on a computer unlike Play Music and every other service with a superior web player that can be used on PC, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS you name it.
Also despite what many say AM sounds like crap compared to Play Music. Listing to AM the sound is flatter and has a more metallic sound. Only after using AM straight for a month then listening to Play Music I found Play Music has a much richer dept with more base and no metallic type sound. Sorry but AM 256kbps AAC sucks and anyone who says it sound better than 320kbps or gasp even a lossless CD must have grown up only listening to the compressed iTunes slop using those crappy white earbuds.
I am staying with Play Music. I don't care much about ad free YouTube as the content I watch there is just a quick tech video no serious viewing. I only care about the music service. Also tech support is great. I even complained about Play Music not having a album that AM had when using the AM trial and Google gave me a three month credit as a policy.
Then unlike every other service even free ones there still is no web player a big disappointment from WWDC. You are still forced to use that bloated pig that is iTunes when listing on a computer unlike Play Music and every other service with a superior web player that can be used on PC, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS you name it.
Also despite what many say AM sounds like crap compared to Play Music. Listing to AM the sound is flatter and has a more metallic sound. Only after using AM straight for a month then listening to Play Music I found Play Music has a much richer dept with more base and no metallic type sound. Sorry but AM 256kbps AAC sucks and anyone who says it sound better than 320kbps or gasp even a lossless CD must have grown up only listening to the compressed iTunes slop using those crappy white earbuds.
I am staying with Play Music. I don't care much about ad free YouTube as the content I watch there is just a quick tech video no serious viewing. I only care about the music service. Also tech support is great. I even complained about Play Music not having a album that AM had when using the AM trial and Google gave me a three month credit as a policy.
Apple Music is fine for me. Still in my trial period though and may or may not continue since I usually prefer to own music. But this isn't bad so far.
Apple Music is the only music service that works with Siri. Example: Press home button, say "Play Hey Jude by the Beatles". The song plays in 2 seconds. Plus that works on all my devices including Apple TV.
I love the idea of accessing any song I want at anytime, but I don't consume loads of music like I consume loads of film and tv like I do with netflix.
Im interested in signing up and Google gives me an error everytime. Way to go Googly!
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Agreed. Same issue here.
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Agreed. Same issue here.
this is nonsense. I haven't had a single suggestion for pop or rap, since I don't listen to them. AM does not send out blanket suggestions to everyone as suggested by this poster. BS.
it says "4th of July Weekend only" on their site so I'm guessing it's gonna end after today.
There's so much right with Google Play Music. For me, however, it is YouTube Red. So you're telling me this subscription gives me access to over 38 million songs AND ad-free access to YouTube for 9.99 a month? Sign my ass up! You can have your one-week exclusive Drake, Taylors, and whoever else. But I'm on YouTube ALL THE DAMN TIME. What does Apple have to equal that?
Do love that The Wiz soundtrack is on Apple Music, though.
Do love that The Wiz soundtrack is on Apple Music, though.
So this article says that this offer is only available for those who have never signed up for Google Play Music in the past. I have previously with a 30 day free trial and cancelled. I was just now able to sign up for this four month free deal. I will cancel it on November 3, I've asked Siri to remind me on my iPhone.
Not sure if I will actually use it because I am a Apple Music subscriber and there really is no difference between the two services that I have noticed.
Not sure if I will actually use it because I am a Apple Music subscriber and there really is no difference between the two services that I have noticed.
I had a YouTube red trial before and couldn't get this offer, so I had to make a new account. I also have Apple Music, so I am really doing it just for the YouTube Red.
By the way, you can cancel your subscription now and still use the trial until it ends; you don't have to wait until the trial is about to end.
I actually tried YouTube red for a week and didn't really see the benefits. None of the exclusive content was all that great and ads are usually incredibly short (can be skipped in 5 seconds or so).
If it was much cheaper if consider it. It's possible I don't watch enough YouTube. My son watched a ton while in the car but he doesn't care about ads haha.
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I am unsure how bad piracy of music is. I imagine it is lower than it was ten years ago since so much is accessible and so many people are willing to just listen to ads (within reason, I think Pandora severely over does it).
The only way the music industry pricing structure will change is if enough people stop paying. I've no idea if or when that will happen.
For many I think $10 a month is just disposable income. It's not that I physically can't afford $10 a month, I just personally don't see $10 worth of value in it. Hell, my Nerflix just went up in price after my two years grandfathered pricing ended and I thought for a second whether I wanted to dump it; I ultimately decided that we, as a family, probably watch well over 100 hours a month and ten cents an hour for entertainment isn't exactly expensive. There are those that listen to music all day every day that see this as an incredible deal. I'd get a couple dozen hours a month out of it and, while that's not terrible, I'm perfectly pleased with free options as well.
I do plan on giving google play a fair shot to possibly discover some indie artists. Free options tend to lean heavily on the popular stuff, which makes a lot of sense, but it also gets boring and m, I don't consider it to be all that great.
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Is it possible that people's experiences with the software differ?
For my trial of Apple Music I was getting a lot of electronic and dance tracks and, while I did dig some of them, they certainly weren't in my lists of things that I own or had played before.
This was many months ago too, and I hear AM has gotten better (makes sense, a service like this should be constantly getting more intelligent the more users feed it days).
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I'm on the fence in whether this was amazingly placed sarcasm or complete ignorance. In going to choose to believe the former. Lol.
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I'd consider it if they offered something like iCloud storage, although 50gb is like $1 a month or down thing incredibly low, so I'd personally want something like 1TB free.
There are plenty of free options with vastly more storage, particularly in the photo/video category.
Better sound quality is in the ear of the listener. To me there is no difference and I don't need a web player.Better sound quality and a Web player.
Why is this an issue to people? Why would anyone care who sees what kind of music you listen to? It's not porn.
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Exactly! I am sure the people that complain about renting music don't have the same problem with renting movies on Netflix or in decades past renting movies from Blockbuster or other local video store. And I am sure these same people don't buy every movie they want to see. They probably also go to a movie theatre and see movies too which is the worst form of rental of all....you only get one single play and probably paid half the cost of owning it when it is released later on Blu Ray and digital download!
So why do people complain renting music? I don't get it.
Hmm. I think music industry would just go away and we can no longer listen to professionally created music anymore. Profit is not the only concern for them.
Maybe because people older than 25 or 30 gradually realise owning something is much better than renting something? At least I believe if I own something it would be better. (I am just one step away to 30th)