Hey everyone I just got the Google Play Music All Access and I was wondering how the thumbing up and down works. When thumbing up and down when in a radio does it affect the songs in that radio and if it does affect the songs being played does it effect all stations or just the current one you like the song in? In other words does liking affect the song selection in the radios? And is thumb upping and downing radio independent or not?
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I'm sure for most of us this is our first device with non-removable storage. Welcome to iphone-ville territory (WHY HTC?). Anyway, for those of us who enjoy music on a regular basis and prefer not to store all of our music on the phone, what app do you use to cloud-sync? I've tried google music but it seems limited and the upload is very slow. So what is your preferred method to listen to music?
Pandora and Grooveshark!
those apps are good for random playlists. But im talking about your own personal music library. I like the htc music app, but its useless if I can't store my entire music library.
Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.
I like and pay for Spotify.
It integrates my itunes collection including playlists and I can sync whatever I want for offline playback.
I pay for Spotify as well and Im coming from Zune marketplace, of which I loved! Spotify is just as good imo and I don't find that it sucks my battery dry within an hour either.
Google Music and Spotify.
Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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E.Cadro said:
Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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Not sure how it is stored, but basically you go to the Music app, then you hold down on an album, hit "Make availible offline" and it downloads is somewhere. Then after you want to delete it, hold down on it again, and uncheck "Make availible offline" Its really awesome, try it out if you haven't already.
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Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.
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yeah thats what im referring to when I speak of uploading. Good to know it gets faster because that was my only issue with google music.
Audiogalaxy hands down. The best sound quality out there (IF YOU HAVE A GOOD QUALITY LIBRARY) You stream your own personal library from home. You can log in from any computer anywhere and have your playlists and library. it caches wonderfully. sounds better than pandora, slacker, tune in, iheart, lastfm all of them. All my music is either lossless or itunes aac highest quality and it sounds amazing. It uses your itunes playlist also. the best thing is its FREE! 5 of my friends are logged in to my library at all times.. its in the market.. Audiogalaxy
yeah I just downloaded audiogalaxy. It uploads alot faster than google music. Liking it alot so far
Check Amazon MP3 player.
Audio galaxy is OK if your fine with being the server ... instead of Google...
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amazon got my monies ages ago with prime, and then they released their mp3 service before google. I honestly don't like how google music adds random tracks based on your "likes" I have a zune and zune pass, when I wanna explore I do it there.
I download all my music from zune and then upload the mp3s to amazon and call it a day.
I keep a solid 2gb on my phone, the rest is easily streamed with my unlimited LTE plan, and if you root and install either rogers or asia rom (I have asia) you don't even have to worry about att throttling your data
I know it's a stupid question. But the idea I have in my head is something just like Pandora except when you're connected to WiFi it automatically downloads a preset number of songs to your phone so whenever you're connected to data you could just play the random downloaded songs right off of your phone. Is something like this around? If not someone should work on developing something like this for real.
i believe that some music apps will keep a cache of songs that you play over wifi or data available offline.
might want to investigate that route.
i think i usedthis a few times with google play music
I believe Slacker radio does this. Haven't used it for quite some time though.
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I know it's a stupid question. But the idea I have in my head is something just like Pandora except when you're connected to WiFi it automatically downloads a preset number of songs to your phone so whenever you're connected to data you could just play the random downloaded songs right off of your phone. Is something like this around? If not someone should work on developing something like this for real.
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Google Music does this, you can 'pin' songs, albums, or playlists and they will be downloaded to your phone so they're always available.
Oh ok. I'll check out slacker radio. & as far as Google music goes, I listen to a lot of jazz & classical & I like various types so I don't have them on my actual player. I use Poweramp for all my downloaded stuff. Will Google Music allow me to just create a jazz or classical station?
Check out Tune In radio. It may be a paid feature but you can download whole radio broadcasts from local and internet radio stations. I listen to jazz and classical as well and there are a bunch of different jazz and classical stations, all different genres, too.
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Oh ok. I'll check out slacker radio. & as far as Google music goes, I listen to a lot of jazz & classical & I like various types so I don't have them on my actual player. I use Poweramp for all my downloaded stuff. Will Google Music allow me to just create a jazz or classical station?
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Google Music also has that subscription u can buy then pin all the music u want
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Hi, I hope I'm not posting in the wrong forum.
I'm searching for a music radio app that could perhaps recommend songs to me not only based on the genre but by whom I'm listening to most recently, and recommend hit songs by that artist. Even better if it could do this while streaming music, basically a music radio that's personalizing a playlist for me simultaneously. Does any such app exist yet? Thanks!
I've always been curious, when you "shuffle" your songs, does it truly pick songs at random, or is there some special "algorithm" the app uses to play certain songs? The reason I ask is, it seems like every time I shuffle my songs (which is how I normally listen to music), I always end up hearing the same general pool of songs. I have, like, at least 300 or so songs downloaded to my device for offline playback, but it seems like every time I shuffle, it's mostly the same songs I heard before.
My assumption is that it takes into account how many times tracks have been played, and the more times they've been played, the more likely they are to show up in shuffle. Thus, when I shuffle my songs, it would use generally the same ones, because those are the "most played" due to all the time they come up in the shuffle.
I just wonder, though, is there any way to change this algorithm, or at the very least, reset all the amount of plays my songs have? I thought I remember one time finding a way to reset the number of plays via the Internet browser client of Play Music, but it doesn't seem like that applied to the number of plays on my actual phone, as it didn't affect which songs were coming up in my shuffle.
I've got like same feeling about it. Shuffle all music seems to pick up songs which have higher listen countet than others, so I end up listening same good 'ol songs - mostly
Hey there! Basically the only podcast that I regularly listen to is Car Talk from NPR, but it seems to be the only podcast that I cannot find on Google Play Music. Are there plans to add it in the future or is there a reason I can't find it on there? I don't see why it wouldn't be there if I can get it on tiny apps like AntennaPod and the likes.