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.
What is the best to store music. I have double twist, but it is a pain to sync my checked songs in Itunes. I am coming from a iphone, had one since 08. I also uploaded most of my music I listen to to Google Music. Is that the easiest? I am afraid with double twist it will sync all of my music. Also will stock music app play songs that I have on Google Music?
Thank
I have DoubleTwist, but I only use it for AirPlay, not for syncing, so I can't speak on that part.
The Play Music (Google Music) player is the only player that will stream your Google Music from the cloud. However, within Play Music, you can download songs to your device. At that point you need a third-party app to convert the downloaded Google Music songs to regular mp3's for use with other apps like the stock app or DoubleTwist.
Sorry, I can't recall what any of these third-party apps are called, but if you google around, you should be able to find them.
If you want to keep music on your phone (which is of course handy for when you don't have a data connection), I use Syncr, which seems to have an easier interface, and less buggy than DoubleTwist. I just dump the music I want into playlists, and sync the playlists to my phone using Syncr.
Haven't used Doubletwist in a while. But when I did, it seemed that more times than not, it would try to synch all my music to my phone, regardless of the fact that I indicated to only sync certain playlists. Since I have something like 40+ GB of music, it lock up my computer, and fail to sync successfully anyway (since there is obviously not enough storage on the phone). Then I would have to start over synching, and on subsequent attempts, it would finally do what I wanted.
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
So does Google music not let others tie into their service? Big disappointment IMO, I am coming from windows phone and iPhone that have these app silos. Android has a file system and I thought this could be avoided.
I want to use the new HTC Music Hub and at first thought that it was going to tie-in from Google music and bring down all of my music as well as tie-in with local music I have on the phone. Which I am realizing is not the case. All the HTC Music Hub is going to do it let me launch Google music... Disappointing
New question though. Can Google Music two-way sync from the phone? Let's say I download an album from the internet onto my phone. If I put it in a certain folder will it sync? or is there an option in Google Music to upload music from the phone to Google Music?
And last but not least, can the Google Music player play music stored locally on the phone?
You can only add songs to Google Music from your computer, for now.
If you make music 'Available Offline', it becomes stored locally and you can listen to it without an internet connection.
You cannot use Google Music to listen to non-Goolge Music locally stored music.
danada said:
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
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This is exactly what I'm thinking of doing if I get the One X. Some questions...
Is is simple to swap in/out albums for offline listening? (When on wi-fi.)
So the music is stored locally when downloaded for offline listening? For the One X would that mean the 'phone storage'? (The 9.8 available for media.)
Any idea how long it would take over wi-fi if I hypothetically chose 6 GB of music to download for offline listening?
How well organized is your music once you use the Google Music app? Any bugs? (Songs missing, artist listed twice, anything else.)
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I'm big into music, and I currently have a personal library sized at just about 4,400 total songs. I'm always subscribed to a Monthly music service, but I've been jumping around different services recently.
I need a service that handles Local Files well, and integrates them into my Library seamlessly with the music I add with my subscription.
Google Music
Spotify
Rdio
Tidal
Beats
etc..
I'm genuinely just curious:
1. Are you currently subscribed to a Music Service? If so, which?
2. Why do you prefer your current music service over others? (Or why do you prefer to not be subscribed to a music service?)
3. How long do you listen to music per day?
So now that Samsung is supposed to be making Google Play Music the default music app in their phones and tablets, think there will be a way to stream music like Spotify directly to the watch? I invest heavily in YouTube Red and GPM and don't want to have to switch back to Spotify...
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Thanks for the topic and for the link, I'll try it after work.