Google Play Music All Access

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Husker86 said:
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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Gah! Nailed it. My account was synced but not really signed on. Thanks!
 
Used 150MB on my drive home today...20 minutes. I really don't want to go back to Spotify, but All access has used 1GB this month and I've only streamed a few times on my drive home from work. Ideally I'd like to use it every day on my drive home, but that would easily be worth 3-5GB+. I hardly ever used that much even when I had unlimited Verizon LTE.
 
Check out my data usage on my tablet. I don't care since I'm on wifi but got damn

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I'm not sure what caused that spike. I use GM on my tablet, sure, but I'm not using it for hours on end. An hour a day, MAX. I've had to use the restrict background usage option on my phone and manually handle data.

This really needs to be addressed.
 
Does everyone monitoring their data turn off all the caching in background features and such in the settings? Even when I do that, the app uses a TON of data (compared to the 2 GB allocated to me on family pool of data).
 
Leucrota said:
Does everyone monitoring their data turn off all the caching in background features and such in the settings? Even when I do that, the app uses a TON of data (compared to the 2 GB allocated to me on family pool of data).
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Phone, yes. Tablet, oh, that explains the 15 gigs, heh. But the phone usage is still absurd. It's like 500 MB daily.
 
Music update coming out today relevant to issues some of you guys have:
  • Keeping music on device now much faster
  • New setting for mobile network bandwidth usage
  • Search quality improvements
  • Reduced data usage overall
 
Just got the update. I don't see any data option changes other than a lower bitrate. Ugh, that's not the issue. It's the aggressive caching.
 
If I get the update before I leave work I'll try it out on the way home. If it comes in at less than 140MB then there might have been an improvement...
 
I can't seem to play any music today, is it just me or is Google Music down for anyone else? I just get the arrow spinning constantly and no music playing on any song.

Edit: Appears to be a Chrome problem, nice.
 
is there anymore clarification about the $7.99 pricing? I see it still being advertised on websites even though I thought they said it was only for the first month.

do we keep the $7.99 pricing even if we cancel and then sign back up later?

edit: well the $7.99 is until June 30th. Still I remember a Google rep telling someone in here that you could cancel and sign back up @ $7.99... I was wondering if that was a miscommunication or still true??
 
Futureman said:
is there anymore clarification about the $7.99 pricing? I see it still being advertised on websites even though I thought they said it was only for the first month.

do we keep the $7.99 pricing even if we cancel and then sign back up later?

edit: well the $7.99 is until June 30th. Still I remember a Google rep telling someone in here that you could cancel and sign back up @ $7.99... I was wondering if that was a miscommunication or still true??
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I'm pretty sure that if you sign up before that deadline, you'll keep the $7.99 subscription from then on. Everyone else after that deadline will have to pay the normal fee.
 
On my phone, each time I try to start a radio station from a song on my device, the message "couldn't prepare radio" pops up. Every single time. Is this a known issue?
 
Everything I added disappeared today on my phone. The only songs showing up are the ones I already put on it outside of Google Play Music. Stuff shows up on my PC just fine, but not my phone.
 
Recently, some of the "artist art" disappeared from the artists tab under "My Library." Now they just have the grey placeholder image, but I know many of them have should have images; they just seem to not be loading.

Anyone have any idea on a way to brute force Google Music to reload all of these images or re-query its image database?
 
killertofu said:
So...where's that iOS app?
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Not out yet. GMusic had support for All Access, then Google changed something behind the scenes at the end of May, and the GMusic update was finally approved by Apple a few days ago so it started working again. Google changed something else last night that broke it. I'm guessing that Google isn't okay with GMusic using All Access.

You can access your own library, but any All Access albums you've added don't currently work.
 
andycapps said:
Not out yet. GMusic had support for All Access, then Google changed something behind the scenes at the end of May, and the GMusic update was finally approved by Apple a few days ago so it started working again. Google changed something else last night that broke it. I'm guessing that Google isn't okay with GMusic using All Access.

You can access your own library, but any All Access albums you've added don't currently work.
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I would have hoped the iOS app would be out in time for the trial/promo offer period so one could try it out in full capacity. I hope they extend it if the app won't be out in time.
 
Marty Chinn said:
I would have hoped the iOS app would be out in time for the trial/promo offer period so one could try it out in full capacity. I hope they extend it if the app won't be out in time.
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That would have been nice, I let my subscription renew at the $7.99 price about a week ago because I have a Nexus 7 and can listen on that and because it's a great service. The iOS app should be along soon.
 
Does anyone know if this lets you scrobble to last.fm? I may give it a shot if it does -- that'd be the only way I'd consider leaving Rdio.
 
GK86 said:
What do you mean?

If you are asking if you could download the song(or playlist) onto your device, yes, you can. Google calls it 'pinning' though.
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Yeah, like if I wanted to use it on an iPod/burn the album on disc or something. Either way it's a great deal, I'm just curious how much freedom I have.
 
XANDER CAGE said:
Yeah, like if I wanted to use it on an iPod/burn the album on disc or something. Either way it's a great deal, I'm just curious how much freedom I have.
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The download thing is more for offline use. For when you aren't connected to the internet or don't want to waste data.
 
GK86 said:
The download thing is more for offline use. For when you aren't connected to the internet or don't want to waste data.
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Yeah, I'd like to be able to not use data while I'm exercising or driving. Either way, seems like an awesome deal. I'm gonna try it.
 
Just signed for the free trial with my HTC one. So nice.. it's my main music player now. And dat boomsound...
 
killertofu said:
Yeah I mean I've been using fewer and fewer apps lately. Most I use are google apps. Plus I'd like LTE...
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LTE is nice when I get it (Sprint).

I dunno if I will ever upgrade unless they come up with just some boss kind of Nexus and that Nexus happens to have Sprint again.
 
They also seem to have fixed the data hogging issues, I just checked, and even though my streaming is just as often as it was last month, the data usage is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down.
 
They seem to have a decent selection of game music, FWIW. I was noodling around and put 'Game Music' as a Radio search and it immediately popped up a bunch of game music compilation albums.

I'm currently listening to the theme to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Why? I have idea. This thing supposedly has over 20 million tracks, so I'd better start somewhere I guess.
 
Is there a way I can get my podcasts off the main screens? I can't stand how every music app on android has to incorporate them all the time cluttering up everything when I just want my music app to be music.
 
Con_Smith said:
Is there a way I can get my podcasts off the main screens? I can't stand how every music app on android has to incorporate them all the time cluttering up everything when I just want my music app to be music.
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SERIOUSLY! This has been bothering me for a long time. Well not that much, but it's still weird.
 
Crap. I've been using this now not realizing the data problem. I've been using it all day at work which is about 1 GB a day for me.
 
Signed up for this to lock in the promo price. Hopefully they release an iOS app soon, otherwise it's pretty much useless to me.
 
Antiochus said:
What is the maximum quality of this streaming? Spotify can go up to 320 kbps mp3 for most of its tracks.
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Man this is a big issue for me, I'm knowing its not placebo. streaming quality is way below spotify, I need 320 or nothing so I may end up switching back though I like the interface much better :/
 
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