Google Play Ireland

Dudda

This is great. I was using it already but its good to have it officially.

Anyone notice we don't have a free track of the week like the U.K. version or can I just not find it on the Irish version?

Ivefoundgod

I can access it through the browser but when I try buy anything it says it's not available.

swampy353

Music store available to me and bought a track, seems to be fully live

Mr E

Cool... just bought an album - it was 50c less than iTunes and it is 320kbps in quality.

One thing people should be aware of is that you can only download an album twice from the library once purchased (but you can listen to it as much as you want via the web or using the app).

youcancallmeal

So now that its finally here what are the features of Google play music that I should be getting excited about?

ThisRegard

youcancallmeal wrote: »

So now that its finally here what are the features of Google play music that I should be getting excited about?

+1

I can see the attraction of having all your music in the cloud and owning it, but my CD collection is on an old decrepit machine somewhere in the attic so it's too much hassle at the moment to upload it. I'm a fully converted Spotify addict so any album I want to listen to I'll stream or download to a device somewhere (for €9.99 per month with the proviso that once I stop being a subscriber the music goes with the subscription). I've access to any newly released album that I've looked for so the attraction of being able to buy a single album for the same price doesn't appeal to me at the moment.

Having said that some of the album prices aren't bad compared to iTunes the last time I checked their prices

Andy-Pandy

How do i make this work, I've a few tunes uploaded, but i cant get them on the app on my phone.

elderlemon

are you using Google music on the phone. On the menu bar select all music and it should show you what's "in the cloud". You can choose the music and long press to keep on device.

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

How do i make this work, I've a few tunes uploaded, but i cant get them on the app on my phone.

Andy-Pandy

It doesnt have that option, its giving me the options for All Music and On device Only. No Cloud options. All music isnt showing me anything different.

Nolimits

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

It doesnt have that option, its giving me the options for All Music and On device Only. No Cloud options. All music isnt showing me anything different.

Have you synced your phone sine you put it on?

elderlemon

all music is cloud and device. Select that and see if the music you are looking for shows up.

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

It doesnt have that option, its giving me the options for All Music and On device Only. No Cloud options. All music isnt showing me anything different.

Do you have sync enabled? If you do, try some of these possibilities.

projectgtr

Nolimits wrote: »

Have you synced your phone sine you put it on?

This is what you need to do go into settings/accounts and sync your Google account job done. Happens if you have sync turned off in your power widget.

Atomic Pineapple

ThisRegard wrote: »

+1

I can see the attraction of having all your music in the cloud and owning it, but my CD collection is on an old decrepit machine somewhere in the attic so it's too much hassle at the moment to upload it. I'm a fully converted Spotify addict so any album I want to listen to I'll stream or download to a device somewhere (for €9.99 per month with the proviso that once I stop being a subscriber the music goes with the subscription). I've access to any newly released album that I've looked for so the attraction of being able to buy a single album for the same price doesn't appeal to me at the moment.

Having said that some of the album prices aren't bad compared to iTunes the last time I checked their prices

Same here, Spotifiy suits me now, as my CD collection has just got lost/damaged over time, between moves etc so having access to whatever I want via Spotify makes more sense to me but if I was a few years younger I'd still have a huge CD/Ripped collection and using Google music would have made more sense over Spotify then.

Andy-Pandy

\i needed to set up the sync. Thanks all.

msouden

Holy Crap! Okay - quick - before this magic stops... what should I call and ask them for next? A Chromebook pixel, that gmail client for mac they bought a while back... tickets to I/O... what else?

Jet Black

Good to see some progress towards a fully functional store. So does this mean we could have movies on it soon?

Nolimits

Jet Black wrote: »

Good to see some progress towards a fully functional store. So does this mean we could have movies on it soon?

Movies seems like a big step, I would expect to have magazines/books soon ish though. It's weird that Google are doing all this now, a re designed play store and expanding services seems like the kind of thing they'd announce at I/O with it being so close.

Uriel.

I am accessing through my web browser and I seem to have movies and magazines as well etc... not using vpn (work machine).

Anyone else have this?

EDIT: sorry to dash hopes, forgot I switched my account to UK when buying the Nexus 10 - seems to default to UK even though i login under google.ie...

Alpha Dog 1

Some decent prices there but I listen to a lot of music so €120 per year for spotify makes sense.
When Google release there streaming service I'd happily change over.

Andy-Pandy

So how does it work then, am i actually uploading all my tunes and storing the data, or am i just letting google know what i have and then them giving me access to their copy of the tune to stream. If i upload as a FLAC file, will i listen to it in the quality? I think i'll be cancelling my spotify account sooner rather than later.

EGriff

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

So how does it work then, am i actually uploading all my tunes and storing the data, or am i just letting google know what i have and then them giving me access to their copy of the tune to stream. If i upload as a FLAC file, will i listen to it in the quality? I think i'll be cancelling my spotify account sooner rather than later.

It said before I uploaded that it would match my music but it seems to be uploading everything. It has done nearly 300 songs in about 10 mins but I'm in college atm with mega fast upload speed.

I'm assuming matching would be pretty much instant but I could be way off.

projectgtr

New play store launched today too

god's toy

projectgtr wrote: »

New play store launched today too

Anyone got the new play store yet?

god's toy

god's toy wrote: »

Anyone got the new play store yet?

Here you go.

croo

EGriff wrote: »

It said before I uploaded that it would match my music but it seems to be uploading everything. It has done nearly 300 songs in about 10 mins but I'm in college atm with mega fast upload speed.

I'm assuming matching would be pretty much instant but I could be way off.

I was thinking the same!
It's been uploading for hours (1750 of 4400 tracks).
There is good broadband where I'm at but like most the upload speed is a fraction of the download so it's a slow process.

god's toy

So on my nexus 7 the new store home page of the new store has loads of unused space, is that supposed to be that way? (see pic)

nedd

mine looks like that on my phone as well. i think there is supposed to be something there.

jenno86

Make sure you have sync turned on.

Uriel.

Mine looks a lot better but then I switched my account to UK when buying the Nex10