"WHY are you using Spotify instead of Google Play Music?" Tue Dec-16-14 06:50 AM by FLUIDJ
stop that insanity. please.
You can browse online. You can upload your OWN collection and access it via your account. You can SHARE individual songs or entire albums with your friends. You can browse and catch music for offline listening. You can save music directly to your devices internal or external storage (micro SD card that is). It works very well. Has an extensive library. Has a radio option similar to Spotify if that's your thing. You DON'T need to have Facebook to use it. You DON'T need to have Google+ account to use it.
I won't even mention iTunes...don't see how ANYBODY uses THAT crap. It's the Internet Explorer if Macs...
4. "That's how I was with Zune aka Microsoft Music aka Xbox Music...." In response to Reply # 2
When they drug their feet releasing an Android app I finally dropped them for Spotify for a hot minute, then moved on to Google Play. I tried Beats for like a day....something about it didn't click...or I was just already All IN with Google play. .
The spotify app is cleaner than the Google Play app but it kills your battery. The desktop is just as bad. It slows everything down and eats up your battery (laptop). This is on a fairly new MBP. Can't even run it on an older PC laptop.
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5. "I don't like how you Granby Rolled off me to make this post" In response to Reply # 0
LOL yeah, i only see google play on my S3 and they always want a grip of info to download the simplest of apps. even my wells fargo bank app needs to have complete access of my phone (gps/location, if im talkin on it, photos, etc)
i dont listen to enough new music like that in order to be hip enough for all this i got pandora on my phone and that's enough for me
8. "LMAO! man, just trying to keep this place flowing...." In response to Reply # 5
>LOL >yeah, i only see google play on my S3 and they always want a >grip of info to download the simplest of apps. >even my wells fargo bank app needs to have complete access of >my phone (gps/location, if im talkin on it, photos, etc) > >i dont listen to enough new music like that in order to be hip >enough for all this >i got pandora on my phone and that's enough for me
13. "I need to give google play my CREDIT CARD info??? BIG no no!!!!" In response to Reply # 8
why i gotta give my PAYMENT info to listen to FREE music???
shit like that sends read flags to me with all this identity theft im not so quick to put my financial info out there like that plus, i be forgetting about these accts and dont want no fine print to where they start charging me after a while
that happened to me with myfico i checked my credit ONE MONTH then wasnt til like 7 months later i found they'd been charging me all them months AFTER i had a CANCELLATION CONFIRMATION then it took 45 mins on hold trying to get my money back
17. "do you not have an Android device with a Google Play account?" In response to Reply # 13
I can see this being an issue if you never buy apps, only get free apps.... that's me btw...I've only ever paid for like 3 apps probably... if there's not a free version of an app I like...i'll seek out an alternative free version with similar functionality.
25. "no I have a Samsung S3 and only use google play store for free stuff" In response to Reply # 17
i dont use my phone like that i have a few banking/credit union apps so i can check my balances/move funds i have the paypal app i have har.com app to search for homes i have matrix.itasoftware.com app to search for flights
that's it
im behind the times dude anything asking me for credit card info i decline and dont use i cant even send my wife pics in Google Hangouts no more cause i dont feel like creating a google+ acct for that so i just send pics MMS and we chat in hangouts all day
9. "funny thing is, I have a spotify account, got it before they required Fa..." In response to Reply # 6
but I never bothered with it because Pandora was better at the time and I was still a Zune/Xbox music subscriber. Those two fit the bill better and Spotify was just a novelty with less features than I already had in Pandora & Xbox Music....
Once Google Play came through and really enhanced their offering I was all in with them and Spotify was STILL not 100% worth being invested in.
I just logged in to Spotify after making this post though...wanted to check it out again and see if I was missing anything.....
27. "exactly what it sounds like" In response to Reply # 19
pick the one I want to play it on and control it
phone. tablet. pc.
I believe that with the last update they don't even have to be on the same wifi network to start. previously you could do it over diff networks, but you had to start on the same wifi. I often play my music in the car from my ipad, but I can control it from my phone.
31. "Just read that the Moto 360 shows the album art from Soundcloud" In response to Reply # 30 Tue Dec-16-14 10:32 AM by FLUIDJ
on the display when you're using the Soundcloud app.... FCK! NOW I want a Moto360...JUST for this. lol. Do all the Android Wear watches do this? Do the other music apps do this too?
and yeah....if Soundcloud gets a subscription service equal to Google Play & Spotify, i'd be ALL IN. Their interface is pretty much the GOAT.
32. "i really wish they would add an offline feature" In response to Reply # 30
all in all the mobile app kinda sucks but for music discovery soundcloud is really the way to go
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74. "omg yes and mixcloud" In response to Reply # 32
>all in all the mobile app kinda sucks >but for music discovery soundcloud is really the way to go
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22. "the game ain't changed, only the players, Player. " In response to Reply # 20
lol... it's really not that serious.... why can't y'all just participate in poasts anymore?? be deading the joints with logic before they even get poppin.... .
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11. "Google Play has streaming issues over cellular networks" In response to Reply # 0
i tried to get into it because i didnt care for Spotify over Pandora
Google Play kept having streaming issues. at first i thought it was just me/my phone, looked it up and seen that apparently it was a major issue they've been trying to fix
14. "I was on Rhapsody from 2008 through this year, moved to Beats. Sticking " In response to Reply # 0
with it because I like the Beats interface better than the others. That's really what it's about at this point - all the streaming services pretty much offer the same library and features. It's just a question of what interface/app do you prefer to use.
21. "I've been rocking with Google Play since it launched" In response to Reply # 0
Extensive library, good features (I dig the video sync with Youtube they just intro'd), and they're doing better with content...even featuring some mixtapes. Only thing I don't like are the gaps in their library - some of my favorite albums are missing (ie The Listening, Raphael Saadiq as Ray-Ray and a few others).
34. "Yeah, that's mainly where I use it if I'm at home. " In response to Reply # 29
When you play something in the google music app - if there's an associated official youtube video, you just hit the icon and it brings it up. Once it's over it goes back to the Play app.
39. "If i'm playing Google Music over my Chromecast, and see the YouTube" In response to Reply # 34
icon, will it automatically start casting the video to Chromecast?
Seems like when I noticed the feature before, it kept playing the music on my Chromecast, but the YouTube Video started playing on my device. I'd like it to just start playing the YouTube on the Chromecast.. .
40. "RE: WTF is a Zune? " In response to Reply # 28
I still have a Zune...
It was Microsofts half asseed attempt at challenging Ipods..
Still a good player but they didnt really support it...
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49. "no, that wasn't a diss. I was a HUGE Zune Stan..." In response to Reply # 48
it had everything...and it had it YEARS before all the current players on the field...but it was slept on HARD.
I think Rdio is like that too. It's the best radio style service out there....I always forget to check for it though...but when I did in the past, i enjoyed it... Thanks for prompting me to revisit it. .
57. "A LOT of disposable music these days. A LOT..." In response to Reply # 51
Nice way to get a taste of things without the full on investment.
I was burned SOOOOOOooo many times with CD purchases from like 2000 - 2008 or so...was spending waaaay more than $7.99/month (i'm locked in to the Google Play introductory rates)...so i'm saving money for the most part. Especially the way OKP is notorious for hyping mediocre obscure shit. .
58. "Also...do you REALLY own your shit? If you buying CDs still then yeah.." In response to Reply # 51
But for the most part...I don't really even have a convenient means of playing physical media any more. And I have absolutely no way to rip CDs anymore since my MacBook Pro doesn't even have an optical drive.
The coolest program is Amazon though, you buy a hard copy and get the digital copy free for a lot of their stuff....
With Google Play, you don't have to stream, if you subscribe, you can download whatever you want onto your phone and play it from there. It's just DRM'd to your device or internal microSD card.. So yeah...I got a 64GB mSD on my Note4 that's pretty much chock full of music that I "Rent" from Google Play. No need to use data to listen to it. .
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Tue Dec-16-14 02:13 PM
62. "I have vinyl, CD, and cassette so yeah, I own." In response to Reply # 58
>But for the most part...I don't really even have a convenient >means of playing physical media any more. And I have >absolutely no way to rip CDs anymore since my MacBook Pro >doesn't even have an optical drive. > >The coolest program is Amazon though, you buy a hard copy and >get the digital copy free for a lot of their stuff.... > >With Google Play, you don't have to stream, if you subscribe, >you can download whatever you want onto your phone and play it >from there. It's just DRM'd to your device or internal microSD >card.. So yeah...I got a 64GB mSD on my Note4 that's pretty >much chock full of music that I "Rent" from Google Play. No >need to use data to listen to it. >.
Also, the few mp3's I've ever bought (and that number is extremely low... shit has to be GOOT for me to buy music that I can't get a physical copy of) I have stored across numerous CD and DVD backups.
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69. "i don't want the files eating up space" In response to Reply # 51 Tue Dec-16-14 02:57 PM by hardware
nor do i want cds taking up space especially since theres no cd player in the house
not dissing your way of doing things, just giving the scenario why that would work for some. i honestly don't care about whether or not i 'own' the music i listen to. not really interested in trying to download it either. i just wanna find the song and play it wherever i want.
i have some emergency mp3s on my phone and the 200 or so GB of old music on my HDD on the RARE occasion i'm ever offline.
61. "Spotify has better social integration but Google Play offers much more" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Dec-16-14 02:32 PM by ShinobiShaw
Spotify barely works unless you pay for it. You can still listen to playlist offline but thats about it.
Google Play does not require you to pay for it to work well. You can still access your music (or most of it) make your own play list and listen to the radio. If you pay the sub you have access to all the music in their database and can even download and listen to albums offline.
I use both. Spotify for the desktop and google play for mobile.
67. "Wait can you really upload your own music to Spotify?" In response to Reply # 0
I've had spotify for years and don't think I've seen this work.
I see the song that i added to the local library on my desktop version of spotify, but I can't play them on my phone unless I download them separately to my phone.
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72. "I'm going to revisit the free spotify since I still have a login and acc..." In response to Reply # 70
but as far as paying....I like the full access to new releases, old catalog stuff that I may want to hear occasionally, ability to explore different genres, access to children's music that I DAMN sho don't want to be buying out right, it's a model that just worked for me since I was a Zune subscriber. I guess it's the equiv. to cable TV...except I actually take full advantage of all the "channels" lol...
I use Pandora when I just want to hear some random stuff based off of one song though... .
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