Shitty Rambo Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 "All Access includes such features as Listen Now, which uses Google's data to create a "never-ending" list of music based on your tastes. Demonstrating All Access on-stage at the keynote, Google's Chris Yerga showed the app's music discovery features, including a re-orderable queue of music and music discovery based on your existing library. Yerga described the service as "radio without rules."" "The price is $9.99 per month, with 30-day trials available. Even better, if you start a trial by June 30, you'll only pay $7.99 per month." http://m.androidcentral.com/google-play-music-all-access-unveiled Another streaming audio competitor. Personally I think this one would be killer. The name could be better though, it's pretty damn long. Those who already use Google Play Music already know that the auto-generated playlists are surprisingly very good and actually points out some great tracks from bands who's album I've bought and simply never listened to. Anyone else gonna give the free trial a test drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saint Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I use Spotify Premium constantly because it allows me to listen to albums when I don't have the money to buy a physical copy on vinyl. That's $9.99. I'll have to check this out. I've been looking for something different than Spotify that really hooks me, but I can't get away from the familiarity. That $7.99 price point is a good start though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 Since I primarily use GPM as my default music player this really appeals to me because I can have everything in one place. I'm trying it out right now and it's pretty cool. To start a station (on the web) you just go to any artist in your library and click the Radio button and it queues up a playlist. You can also stream albums like Spotify (I'm streaming the new Wonder Years album). There's an add-to-library option which I assume gives you access to said album until you cancel your service.Gonna try out the mobile app too. I imagine it'll be similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I'm giving the free trial a start tonight after work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saint Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Oh wait, this is a Google thing so there probably won't be a mobile app for my iPhone. I didn't even think of that. Sigh...guess I'll have to stick with Spotify, but I'm really not too happy about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 This would be rad if I cared to stream music :/ Next phone will be a droid of some sort so I can just buy memory cards....stock iPhones arn't cutting it...unless the next model is 128gbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smailtronic Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I still don't get why people are willing to pay to listen to music that a computer algorithm thinks that they might enjoy. Google Music is awesome because I can pull every bit of music I own to wherever I am (provided there's data or wifi). But I have no interest in being sent random recommendations, and ads (because you know they're coming eventually) when I'm listening to music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoidantroyd Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 This would be rad if I cared to stream music :/ Next phone will be a droid of some sort so I can just buy memory cards....stock iPhones arn't cutting it...unless the next model is 128gbs Or you could just use iCloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 how much space is icloud alotted with now, I honestly haven't used it since MobileMe was a paid subscription. Or you could just use iCloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 I still don't get why people are willing to pay to listen to music that a computer algorithm thinks that they might enjoy. Google Music is awesome because I can pull every bit of music I own to wherever I am (provided there's data or wifi). But I have no interest in being sent random recommendations, and ads (because you know they're coming eventually) when I'm listening to music. Google Play Music is the only service that has generated playlists I actually like. I also wouldn't count on Ads either, they didn't have them in their free music/cloud streaming before, adding them to the premium service seems very unlikely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFP Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Great! Now Google will know your tastes in music and will now tell you what you like haha. I hate Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Can someone post a link to where I can try this out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 Music.Google.com, if you have a gmail account (Google) account just login and it'll prompt you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Thanks Music.Google.com, if you have a gmail account (Google) account just login and it'll prompt you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 17, 2013 Author Share Posted May 17, 2013 After spending a day with this I'm pretty much sold on the service. It was damn refreshing to listen to pretty much anything I wanted during my run today. Too often I want to hear something I haven't upped to the cloud or dumped on my SD card. This also sets aside the worry I have of losing my digital music collection given my HDD fails (which all eventually do). Instead of paying for a cloud backup service for my media, which is easily 95% music, I'd much rather pay for this service. Of course the online library could be expanded but I imagine that will happen over time, as of right now it's good enough but you I couldn't find a handful of lesser known bands who I should be directly supporting anyways 8.5/10 - daddy likey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smailtronic Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 This also sets aside the worry I have of losing my digital music collection given my HDD fails (which all eventually do). Instead of paying for a cloud backup service for my media, which is easily 95% music, I'd much rather pay for this service. Google Play already allows you to upload 20K songs for free (and download them later). How many more do you get for $10/month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 18, 2013 Author Share Posted May 18, 2013 Google Play already allows you to upload 20K songs for free (and download them later). How many more do you get for $10/month?I'm fairly certain the fee is for outside-library audio streaming only and doesn't increase your upload quota. However you can add anything to your library and keep it on your device for offline playback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyacrash Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Just started my free trial. I'm digging it so far, the generated playlists are good, I wouldn't say much better than spotify/pandora/slacker though. My expectations may be different from you guys' though as I look forward to new/unknown music rather than playing a playlist of a bunch of music I already have. They haven't failed me on streaming any specific record I've searched for to listen to though, and that's a huge plus. For $7.99 I may hang onto it for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyacrash Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Another caveat, and this doesn't appear to affect Radio playlists, but I've noticed the "related artists" are often not always very related. For example I'm listening to He Who Cannot Be Named - Love/Hate and under related artists it lists Oasis and Goo Goo Dolls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Great! Now Google will know your tastes in music and will now tell you what you like haha. I hate Google. Wat Let me guess, you also think you're getting "Scroogled" because you saw a commercial that said that Google employees are reading all your emails. Shitty Rambo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 ^Perhaps I'm being lenient but I tend to believe Google as a whole doesn't give a shit about my Topshelf Records receipts or the lackluster porn I look at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 okay, so its been a few months, what do you guys think of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 I still use it daily. gMusic for Apple devices allows you to use the service there so my wife and I share the account. It's nice to not have to redeem DL codes either since most albums are available on their release day. I'm going to buy a Nexus 7 and pair it with my amp via Bluetooth so when people are over they can pick up the tablet and play any song they want. Currently doing this with my phone but it's not as convenient. As far as mobile goes I'm glad I still have unlimited data. If I had a cap I would of hit it within a couple days. They added data awareness settings in Google Play Music for those who have a limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 yeah, i have a data limit, so I wasnt sure how fast it burned through it.. im debating on just putting most of my music up on google play anyways... but my wife and I split 4 gb, not sure how fast that'd get used up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 I haven't used the low-usage settings but I imagine it kicks the song quality down to 96kbps or lower. If you up music to the cloud then 'pin-it' it saves the audio to your phone but I don't think it's the actual MP3, just a chunk of it so you can stream it with minimal usage. This is just a theory I have, I noticed all the saved audio from the cloud was essentially metadata and not actual audio files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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