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So I would like to poll this thread for a minute.

Does anyone have CM10 version 4.2.2 installed on their phone?

If so are you having issues with playback only coming out of the right speaker either with headphones or over blutooth streaming?

I am. :/


Edit NVM known issue that's been resolved.
XDA Forum said:
Tried to link the JIRA post but haven't made enough posts to make an outside link, its #CYAN-1013 if you are wondering.

The issue has been identified and they have patched it on the latest CM10.1 nightly. For d2vzw it is nightly: cm-10.1-20130510-NIGHTLY-d2vzw
I have installed and can verify that this has fixed this issue.
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If any iOS users like myself want to check out All Access, gMusic has support for that. It's $1.99, and I think it's well worth it. You can create radio stations, search for artists and add cds to your library, make available offline, etc.

And yeah, they need to make it so it's streaming a lower bitrate, I can't use this on 3G most of the time.
 
So I VPN'd this and been using it for a while, and the radio feature is pretty great. I've discovered quite a bit of new music that I really enjoyed through it. However, the data usage is not a trade-off I'm willing to do, it's been devouring data like nothing else, which is extra bad when comparing it to Spotify which barely uses up any at all. I also lose connection quite a bit, but that may just be due to latency issues from here.
 
jamesinclair said:
I find it amusing that Yahoo unlimited and paid was over a decade ago, and were better and yet this is considered a big deal
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It's a big deal because it's competition for Spotify, which is shit. Spotify has been considered a "big deal" and as far as I know has been the most popular of this kind of service. You should be saying the same about Spotify. I've never heard of the Yahoo service though.
 
demon said:
It's a big deal because it's competition for Spotify, which is shit. Spotify has been considered a "big deal" and as far as I know has been the most popular of this kind of service. You should be saying the same about Spotify. I've never heard of the Yahoo service though.
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They discontinued all their music products.

But rhapsody, Napster and zune music were all the same. Apparently it's not profitable if companies keep starting it and discontinuing it. I think Sony had one too.
 
jamesinclair said:
They discontinued all their music products.

But rhapsody, Napster and zune music were all the same. Apparently it's not profitable if companies keep starting it and discontinuing it. I think Sony had one too.
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Sony still has one I think. It's not conclusive that it's not profitable in general just because a lot of companies tried it and shut down. It's quite possible the market wasn't ready then and they were before their time. For example, smartphones make these services a lot more usable.
 
After today's latest and shittiest update, I've gone ahead and ditched my premium Spotify. So far, loving Google Music. Feels so much cleaner and easier ...
 
This is nice, but I'm sticking with Spotify unless a desktop app comes out. I use multiple windows and tabs in Chrome for work and having another one dedicated to music is a bit of a pain. I wish Spotify and Rhapsody could make love and spit out a child that has the best traits of both.
 
turnbuckle said:
This is nice, but I'm sticking with Spotify unless a desktop app comes out. I use multiple windows and tabs in Chrome for work and having another one dedicated to music is a bit of a pain. I wish Spotify and Rhapsody could make love and spit out a child that has the best traits of both.
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Download Firefox and use that as your musical browser?
 
UltimaPooh said:
Download Firefox and use that as your musical browser?
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I guess I just have a thing about wanting a dedicated app to listen to music. I wouldn't go to a website to listen to spotify on my phone - I'd use the app. I'd use the app for this on Android instead of going to the website too.
 
turnbuckle said:
This is nice, but I'm sticking with Spotify unless a desktop app comes out. I use multiple windows and tabs in Chrome for work and having another one dedicated to music is a bit of a pain. I wish Spotify and Rhapsody could make love and spit out a child that has the best traits of both.
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I feel the same way, and I may end up doing what UP suggested and just have a separate dedicated browser for Google Music. It is kind of stupid though...
 
AstroLad said:
I haven't used it, but there's a Chrome app fwiw.
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All that does is launch a tab with Google Music. It's not different than a bookmark, except that it will appear on the "apps" page in Chrome.

However, I have no problem with it being purely web-based. Open a new Chrome Window if you want it "separate".
 
turnbuckle said:
This is nice, but I'm sticking with Spotify unless a desktop app comes out. I use multiple windows and tabs in Chrome for work and having another one dedicated to music is a bit of a pain. I wish Spotify and Rhapsody could make love and spit out a child that has the best traits of both.
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You could just drag the tab out into its own window and minimize that, you know.
 
Groof said:
You could just drag the tab out into its own window and minimize that, you know.
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I know. I like having my programs grouped together in the taskbar. I usually have 3-4 separate instances of Chrome running at a time.

When I'm in a browser my inclination is to browse other websites within it. I like having a separate, identifiable taskbar icon and interface for music without any of my browser shit displayed (bookmarks, address bar, browser extension icons).

It's all a matter of preference. Some people are cool with having another instance of Chrome dedicated to this, and I personally do not. I'm not thrilled with Spotify's interface, but I still prefer that over using Chrome or any other web browser.

I felt the same way when I switched from Rhapsody to MOG several years ago before switching back.
 
turnbuckle said:
I know. I like having my programs grouped together in the taskbar. I usually have 3-4 separate instances of Chrome running at a time.

When I'm in a browser my inclination is to browse other websites within it. I like having a separate, identifiable taskbar icon and interface for music without any of my browser shit displayed (bookmarks, address bar, browser extension icons).

It's all a matter of preference. Some people are cool with having another instance of Chrome dedicated to this, and I personally do not. I'm not thrilled with Spotify's interface, but I still prefer that over using Chrome or any other web browser.

I felt the same way when I switched from Rhapsody to MOG several years ago before switching back.
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Well that's why you get Firefox since you don't use that and you know Google Music is in there.

Their web app is pretty powerful.
 
Does the Spotify iPhone app still not have the proper way to sort my favorite artists like I can in my Music app? I listen to artists>albums, not playlists like they seem to want me to (at least when I tried the trial last year).
 
Okay, I have a question about this. If I add a song/album to My Library, the only thing it does is list the artist in the My Library tab for quick access, correct? It doesn't download anything when I do this? But when I pin an artist/song, then it downloads to my device? So I could theorectically add a ton of artists to My Library and not have to worry about wasting a ton of space on my phone?

I'm a little unclear on what does what, exactly.
 
Jack Scofield said:
Okay, I have a question about this. If I add a song/album to My Library, the only thing it does is list the artist in the My Library tab for quick access, correct? It doesn't download anything when I do this? But when I pin an artist/song, then it downloads to my device? So I could theorectically add a ton of artists to My Library and not have to worry about wasting a ton of space on my phone?

I'm a little unclear on what does what, exactly.
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Yes.
 
So I've had to switch to Pandora for car radio listening...I watched my data meter while listening to three (not even full) songs and it went up 40 megabytes in that very short time span (maybe 5 minutes or so). I'm using AT&T HSPA on my prepaid plan so I'm pretty sure it was pegged at it's peak speed the whole time I was using All Access to stream.

They really need to fix this shit. I even have the "cache music" option unchecked, along with Highest Quality unchecked.
 
Husker86 said:
So I've had to switch to Pandora for car radio listening...I watched my data meter while listening to three (not even full) songs and it went up 40 megabytes in that very short time span (maybe 5 minutes or so). I'm using AT&T HSPA on my prepaid plan so I'm pretty sure it was pegged at it's peak speed the whole time I was using All Access to stream.

They really need to fix this shit. I even have the "cache music" option unchecked, along with Highest Quality unchecked.
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It would be nice to have a bitrate option. Would love to have a 128kpbs option, which equates to roughly 60 megabytes for 1 hour of play.
 
Husker86 said:
So I've had to switch to Pandora for car radio listening...I watched my data meter while listening to three (not even full) songs and it went up 40 megabytes in that very short time span (maybe 5 minutes or so). I'm using AT&T HSPA on my prepaid plan so I'm pretty sure it was pegged at it's peak speed the whole time I was using All Access to stream.

They really need to fix this shit. I even have the "cache music" option unchecked, along with Highest Quality unchecked.
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it still download and upload ridiculous amount of data when the music are kept on the device.

also, i wish you can share your playlist with friends who aren't signed into google.
 
Husker86 said:
All that does is launch a tab with Google Music. It's not different than a bookmark, except that it will appear on the "apps" page in Chrome.

However, I have no problem with it being purely web-based. Open a new Chrome Window if you want it "separate".
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Right click tab > Pin as App tab/Pin tab.

Works in both FF and Chrome and allows you to browse and close all tabs etc without effecting that one tab you dedicated to an app. I use it religiously.
 
mackattk said:
It would be nice to have a bitrate option. Would love to have a 128kpbs option, which equates to roughly 60 megabytes for 1 hour of play.
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It can't be only the bitrate though. I'm sure with "High Quality" unchecked it isn't too high, maybe 256 if not 128. The app is downloading other songs in some sort of cache attempt (even though I have that unchecked) or something...it's just so damn weird.
 
Husker86 said:
It can't be only the bitrate though. I'm sure with "High Quality" unchecked it isn't too high, maybe 256 if not 128. The app is downloading other songs in some sort of cache attempt (even though I have that unchecked) or something...it's just so damn weird.
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Yep, its definitely not just the music. I have unlimited data so I don't care, but unless its downloading FLACC's something else is going on with the data. Its used over a GB easily for me already. I have been using it quite a bit, but not THAT much.

There is an update that went out for it recently that added deleting songs from your library on mobile. I wonder if that patch fixed data issues.
 
Cipherr said:
Yep, its definitely not just the music. I have unlimited data so I don't care, but unless its downloading FLACC's something else is going on with the data. Its used over a GB easily for me already. I have been using it quite a bit, but not THAT much.

There is an update that went out for it recently that added deleting songs from your library on mobile. I wonder if that patch fixed data issues.
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Just tried it out. Nope. Went through 10MB in 3 minutes (didn't even finish the one song I streamed).

Even if I had unlimited data I would be mad about this (though, admittedly less so). The constant cellular data hit has got to murder battery life.
 
This has been an ongoing issue with the app, even before All Access.
 
I was streaming music with a full 4G connection on the freeway and it couldn't even play a single song without having to pause and buffer every 10 seconds. Was really irritating. Never had that problem before.
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[edit] Also tried switching to low-quality mode and instead, it skipped every 5 seconds.
 
Downloading a song to my phone takes hours. One song, hours. It's typical of Google though. What they do is deploy a service and then spend the next several years slowly making it work the way it should have from the start.

The price alone though and the fact I've already uploaded all of my songs on my computer to Music makes this a winner for me.
 
Bboy AJ said:
This has been an ongoing issue with the app, even before All Access.
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Not like this it hasn't. It may have used data, but we are talking a hundred or two megs. Mines is at 1.5GB since the service launched. It was never anywhere remotely this bad.
 
Cipherr said:
Not like this it hasn't. It may have used data, but we are talking a hundred or two megs. Mines is at 1.5GB since the service launched. It was never anywhere remotely this bad.
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You're right. Not this severe, no, but it's never been "accurate" with its data usage. Why are no websites reporting this issue? Are we the only ones talking about it?
 
Bboy AJ said:
You're right. Not this severe, no, but it's never been "accurate" with its data usage. Why are no websites reporting this issue? Are we the only ones talking about it?
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To the bolded, I have no idea. The data usage is massive, many sites should be reporting on this by now. I think some of us noticed it within 48 hours of launch....

Some shameful shit.
 
I've been using the Google Play Music app for over a year. I never get close to my data cap streaming high quality. I stream in my car for about 2 hours every working day.

Are people saying that the new Listen service uses MORE data than the app already uses?
 
BTW, if anyone is looking for a desktop "application" and doesn't want to use a separate minimized Chrome tab, there's always GMusic.

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There are even some theme changes available. Hasn't been updated in a while, though, but still works. It's still the same thing as having a browser open, but it's a dedicated "program" that's not a chrome tab.
 
Mango Positive said:
I've been using the Google Play Music app for over a year. I never get close to my data cap streaming high quality. I stream in my car for about 2 hours every working day.

Are people saying that the new Listen service uses MORE data than the app already uses?
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Don't know about before, but in one hour of streaming, I was over 300MB of usage.
 
Mango Positive said:
I've been using the Google Play Music app for over a year. I never get close to my data cap streaming high quality. I stream in my car for about 2 hours every working day.

Are people saying that the new Listen service uses MORE data than the app already uses?
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Yep basically. I have noticed though that I have streamed a ton today and later yesterday and the data usage hasn't kept pace with what it did the first few days.
 
I'm confused with the All Access portion on Mobile. I cannot for the life of me add anything to My Library using Mobile so I can pin it later for offline mobile use.

Is adding to My Library restricted to desktop for now?
 
3pheMeraLmiX said:
BTW, if anyone is looking for a desktop "application" and doesn't want to use a separate minimized Chrome tab, there's always GMusic.

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There are even some theme changes available. Hasn't been updated in a while, though, but still works. It's still the same thing as having a browser open, but it's a dedicated "program" that's not a chrome tab.
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OMFG whoever this is has fantastic taste in music.

Actually up to ep 22 of my .hack//SIGN rewatch right now! :O
 
EulaCapra said:
I'm confused with the All Access portion on Mobile. I cannot for the life of me add anything to My Library using Mobile so I can pin it later for offline mobile use.

Is adding to My Library restricted to desktop for now?
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No, that option is always in the 3-dot menu on every song/album on mobile for me.
 
I think I need to clarify:

I'm trying to add new artists never found on my library before using All Access so I can pin them later for offline on my mobile. But using the search bar using the "All Music" filter rather than the "On Device" option yields no results and the Shop is... well to $hop songs.

How the heck do I search for new artists to add to My Library in All Access for mobile?
 
EulaCapra said:
I think I need to clarify:

I'm trying to add new artists never found on my library before using All Access so I can pin them later for offline on my mobile. But using the search bar using the "All Music" filter rather than the "On Device" option yields no results and the Shop is... well to $hop songs.

How the heck do I search for new artists to add to My Library in All Access for mobile?
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Hmm, search should yield results. When I search in Google Music app it will show results at the top of songs/artists in my library (if any), and below them all the rest that are in the All Access catalog. It almost sounds like it's not recognizing your subscription as active. Can you start a radio station from your songs and all that kind of stuff?
 
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