What's the battery life like with Google Play Music streaming? I'm assuming 3G data is more then adequate for streaming as well. Any info would be great since this phone's small storage really handicaps it to streaming services.
ddrahos said:
What's the battery life like with Google Play Music streaming? I'm assuming 3G data is more then adequate for streaming as well. Any info would be great since this phone's small storage really handicaps it to streaming services.
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i stream music with spotify and i dont see a battery drop, hope that helps
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What would determine how much each of these apps drains the battery?
I stream music all day at work; I have been using Last.fm up until today.
Normally:
With Last.fm, I will start streaming by 8:30a and will have to plug in my phone by 1-1:30p (battery will be around 10%)
Today:
With Pandora, I started streaming at 8:15a and still have 41% battery life at 1:00p.
*Wondering if anyone else has experiences noticibly less battery drain w/Pandora over Last.fm??
It might be because Pandora only streams the music while last.FM also manages your social music profile
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Wow... scrobbling really kill the battery life that much?
Do you have the quality on high in Pandora? I assume you do but, if not that could be a big difference I would think.
Yeah... high quality streaming enabled on both...
It could be the way they stream. Last.FM may just continuously stream the song, while Pandora might buffer the whole song at once, then cut out the data connection.
I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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google up mspot
it's one of the easiest to use, and does not cache into your phone, no wasted space
but obviously, it will not work if you are in the subway, or anywhere without 3G
mrroey said:
I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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Mspot is awesome
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i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
mrroey said:
i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
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Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
kenvan19 said:
Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
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I sure hope that google music will provide an easier way of managing and transferring music and tags to our devices. Doubletwist syncing lags for me but id still prefer that to dragging and dropping onto the sd.
I heard that Google music would just be over the air sync of the songs your currently have on your device. But i guess well just have to wait till tomorrow to find out. hopefully whatever it is, it will be released following its announcement.
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 have about 1000 songs in my google music. I would like to hear these music
time to time in my car via bluetooth. My question would be what is the usage for google music via lte?
qudwis said:
I have about 1000 songs in my google music. I would like to hear these music
time to time in my car via bluetooth. My question would be what is the usage for google music via lte?
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I can't find the website that compared data usage, but I do know that using the "high quality" setting will heavily increase data usage. Using that option actually uses more data than the songs are originally. I've tested this myself, with an album that was about 100MB total, Google Music used about 140MB of data.
I have noticed that a large part of my Google Play Music data is being counted out of my 3gb data plan. Is there something I need to configure within Google Music to limit its data use when not on wifi? I am not watching music videos. I have see it use nearly half a GB in a day for just music.
I am looking to replace my pandora subscription and Google Music seems like a good sub. Spotify does not send meta data to my car radio.
Thanks
Does anyone else use Google Play Music streaming with TMO?