Mar 26
When Google Play Music was launched with a streaming service that worked on any Android device, the one element we found especially lacking was in uploads. To upload music to … Continue reading
Dec 31
Google Music All Access users are reporting that they’ve received an email inviting them to join the ranks of Glass Explorers. (Here’s the sign up page you can try if you didn’t get the email.) As far we can tell it’s the first time Google has opened up the program to a subset of its users without demanding that they explain themselves.
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Dec 05
The Android version of the Google Music app has been updated this week to bring on several much-requested abilities to the masses. The first of these changes is the ability to download and save song files to your smartphone’s SD card. This does not mean that you’ll be able to pop the SD card out […]
Nov 15
Today Google has released its own Google Play Music app for iOS, working on the iPhone and iPod touch with a unique iPad version coming in the near future. At the moment you’ll find this version of Google Play Music missing the “I’m feeling lucky” option to roll the dice and listen to music based […]
Nov 15
We knew it was coming, and it might have taken a little longer than expected, but Google Play Music for iOS is finally here. The long-awaited iPhone app hits the App Store exactly six months after it was announced for Android and the desktop, and like its counterparts, offers free access to 20,000 of your uploaded tracks, lets you create playlists and also share songs with friends. However, you might be tempted to grab a free month’s trial for its All Access streaming service (normally $9.99 a month), which gives you access to over 20 million tracks, offers custom radio stations and helps you discover new music with its smart recommendation features. 9to5mac reports that Google is working to deliver an iPad version of the Play Music app and aims to bring its “I’m feeling lucky” feature and improved playback features in the near future.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Apple, Google
Via: 9to5mac
Source: Google Play Music (App Store)
Oct 03
The Google Music app and ecosystem has been available on iPhone and iPad devices for some time now, but only here in October of 2013 will the company finally bring a native app to Apple’s mobile devices. Having had the app for Android devices for well over a year now – since November of 2011, […]
Jun 18
This evening on the Google Play Google+ page, Google announced free Play Music All Access streaming for customers at Starbucks, who are now presented with a banner advising them of the free music streaming. Of course, the service is already available for anyone to try for free, and whether this promotion will extend beyond the
Jun 14
May 30
Google Play Music headed to iOS
Posted in: Today's ChiliToday in a much more official manner than we’ve been experiencing thus far, Google Music has been announced to be coming to iOS. It’s been announced by Google’s Android head Sundar Pichai just this morning at the D11 conference where he’s also dropped the bomb: the HTC One Google Edition. So as Android gets a gift of that silver hardware with Nexus innards, iOS gains Google Music, Google Music All Access, and a rather significant competitor to iTunes.
It should be surprising to you to see Google Music being sent to iOS, readers. It wasn’t long ago that it appeared that Google Music was made for Android only – allowing Android users to hold this experience as their own while Apple did the same with iTunes. But here it is – official and coming in “about a month” according to Pichai.
At the moment it’s not clear exactly what kind of user interface will be presented in this iOS access to Google Music. While Pichai was clear that their teams were “working like crazy” to bring All Access to iOS, the Google Play store’s ability to sell music to iOS users was not exactly confirmed.
It wouldn’t be unfounded at this point, on the other hand, as Pichai was also clear about their goals to keep their services “universally accessible.” When asked when the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps would be coming, Pichai essentially said that they’d have to wait until they had enough users to constitute development.
“We want to reach as many people as possible. For platforms that don’t have that many users at scale, we have great HTML5 apps. If they get more users, we will make apps.” – Sundar Pichai
Sound alright to you Windows users? The comments above were also in response to BlackBerry as much as Windows Phone – when will there be enough of a user base to bring Google back to BlackBerry?
SOURCE: AllThingsD
Google Play Music headed to iOS is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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May 24
This week the folks at the app called gMusic have pushed through an update to include Google Play Music All Access for iOS users – iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch included. This update is one that allows the app to stream music using the app’s ability to access all features included in the Android Google Music app, here “unofficially” on Apple’s devices. Google Play Music All Access is a service that was introduced earlier this month at Google’s yearly developers conference Google I/O 2013, working with a monthly subscriber fee for streaming “radio” access to the full Google Music library.
Here at SlashGear, members of the staff (including yours truly) have been using gMusic since late 2011 when we reviewed the XtremeMac Tango TRX – that’s an Apple iPod dock-toting wireless speaker that’s still kicking out the beats today. There the user interface for gMusic wasn’t exactly as user friendly as it is today. Today, the developer team behind the app have kicked things up a notch – just that .
ABOVE: gMusic from 2011. BELOW: gMusic today, spring of 2013.
This week’s update to version 6.0 of gMusic reveals – for those of you who haven’t used the app in a while – a user interface that’s far more friendly and ready to be a real replacement for the built-in music player for iOS. The icons within the app have been smoothed out, the lines are clean, and the overall aesthetic is up to par with the content.
ABOVE: gMusic on the iPad. BELOW: more gMusic on the iPad – YT Cracker up for play.
Now the only thing you’ll be wishing for is an update to Google’s new user interface. At Google I/O, the developer team behind Google Music updated the UI for the Android app, making it gesture friendly and clean at a level equalling that of the Google Play store – also updated this month.
That’s what happens when you’re working as a 3rd party system trying to keep up with the original: they’re always one step ahead!
That said, there’s no official alternative to gMusic on iOS, and from what we’ve seen, there’s not been a whole heck of a lot of good competition for it either. You’ll be tossing down $1.99 USD to grab this app if you’re picking it up from iTunes in the USA, and the team at Interactive Innovative Solutions LLC have made it worth the bucks.
Google Play Music All Access hits the iPhone through gMusic is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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