Google Play Music Now Available In Ireland

biebiebie

Just got emailed this.

Set your music free with Google Play, now available in Ireland. Google Play makes it easy to discover, buy, play and share the music you love on any device -- no wires or syncing required.

Indie.

Didn't it go live in April?

Mr E

Sure did.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056809618

biebiebie

Not sure. I have a vpn on my phone so can get everything that's available in the UK anyway

Washout

best app ever imo

biebiebie

Strange that they're only emailing about it now so. I would have thought they'd be itching to email about it as soon as it was released.

cluainard

I've had this app from Google for a few weeks now. For some reason it is always active and I have to kill it to save battery. I tried to uninstall it on my Galaxy 2, but seemingly this is not an option.

biebiebie

Yeah I've noticed mine running in the background all right. Does it have any impact on battery life?

cluainard

biebiebie wrote: »

Yeah I've noticed mine running in the background all right. Does it have any impact on battery life?

From what I've read in the Google Play Store, it uses a lot of juice when in use. However, when running in the background I imagine it wouldn't impact on light phone users, but may be a problem for heavy phone users.

polaris68

Compared to Spotify, I've noticed that it's very heavy on the battery when in use.

killbillvol2

There's practically no effect on battery when it's running in the background.

evolutionqy7

I assume the all access thing isn't available here. Can't find anyway to sign up

Gorilla Rising

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I assume the all access thing isn't available here. Can't find anyway to sign up

I noticed when I signed up again that it wasn't available so I went in via tunnel bear. Just use that.

evolutionqy7

Gorilla Rising wrote: »

I noticed when I signed up again that it wasn't available so I went in via tunnel bear. Just use that.

Effort...I'll just stick with spotify

miralize

I really dont like the image grid view for artists/albums. Takes ages for me to find what I want.

EGriff

I love the UI personally, some of the band images are really cool.

What I notice is that when I'm streaming my library it uses way more data than Spotify. It must be streaming at a higher bit rate but I can't notice much if any difference in quality and the only option is "stream at highest quality only" which I left unchecked. At least Spotify has 3 options: normal, high and extreme.

Great service though and its free, so I'm not complaining just making an observation:pac:.

Pj!

EGriff wrote: »

I love the UI personally, some of the band images are really cool.

Is there any way to add a band image? Some of mine have none and would be nice to fill them up.

Gorilla Rising

Pj! wrote: »

Is there any way to add a band image? Some of mine have none and would be nice to fill them up.

Just click the little dots on the top right handside and select 'edit album info'. You can change it in there.

Also loving the new UI.

EGriff

I found some of mine had no image for a while (Nue! for example) but after a few days they just filled up.

I have no option for "edit album info", does that only work on music you have stored on your device?

evolutionqy7

EGriff wrote: »

I love the UI personally, some of the band images are really cool.

What I notice is that when I'm streaming my library it uses way more data than Spotify. It must be streaming at a higher bit rate but I can't notice much if any difference in quality and the only option is "stream at highest quality only" which I left unchecked. At least Spotify has 3 options: normal, high and extreme.

Great service though and its free, so I'm not complaining just making an observation:pac:.

I've about 6k songs uploaded to it. If I ever press the button to keep on device it takes forever to download the songs on 10mbps broadband :-(

Pj!

Gorilla Rising wrote: »

Just click the little dots on the top right handside and select 'edit album info'. You can change it in there.

Also loving the new UI.

I think you can only change the album art that way. No options to change the band image.

mathie

Very impressed so far.

I used to use Squeeze Commander and Squeeze Player to access my home PC but that meant I had to have it on all the time.

Its a pain in the hoop uploading all my music though.

I have a little more than 20,000 mp3s though (nearly double that) so hopefully they increase the allowance soon

Fitz*

Has anyone else experienced random skips in parts of songs when playing?

I think it's very patchy and to be honest, would expect a big increase in reliability. Too many times I've tried to play albums only for the 'the music stream is currently unavailable' message to pop up.

Pj!

mathie wrote: »

I have a little more than 20,000 mp3s though (nearly double that) so hopefully they increase the allowance soon

Do you really need that many though? I have old friends who used to try to build up as much music as possible. Huge collections, but mostly trash that they admitted that they'd never listen to.

mathie

Pj! wrote: »

Do you really need that many though? I have old friends who used to try to build up as much music as possible. Huge collections, but mostly trash that they admitted that they'd never listen to.

Very true.

Going through and deleting all the rubbish is a lot of work though

god's toy

One thing I love about google music is the tie in between it and 'Google Now' Just ask Google Now ''what's that song'' and it will listen, tell you and provide a link to buy it in the Google music store.
Perfect for those song you randomly here on the radio you forgot about all those years ago that you loved.

MagicMarker

So what's the catch with this? I've uploaded all my music and I'm free to listen via Android app wherever I have wifi or a data connection. No cost, no ads. Surely there's a catch somewhere?

Professey Chin

MagicMarker wrote: »

So what's the catch with this? I've uploaded all my music and I'm free to listen via Android app wherever I have wifi or a data connection. No cost, no ads. Surely there's a catch somewhere?

Nope thats it really

EGriff

They just updated this app to use less data and added streaming quality options (high, normal, low).

Jet Black

MagicMarker wrote: »

So what's the catch with this? I've uploaded all my music and I'm free to listen via Android app wherever I have wifi or a data connection. No cost, no ads. Surely there's a catch somewhere?

Only thing I can really think of is its limited to 15gb. That includes gmail and drive. Not really bad though.

Professey Chin

Jet Black wrote: »

Only thing I can really think of is its limited to 15gb. That includes gmail and drive. Not really bad though.

Did this change? I thought it was 20,000 songs (mine still has the counter and doesnt count towards my gmail/drive)

EGriff

Its not 15GB, that's the storage you have split between Gmail and Google drive.

Its 20,000 songs you can upload, mine were around 35GB altogether.

Riesen_Meal

Chinpool wrote: »

Did this change? I thought it was 20,000 songs (mine still has the counter and doesnt count towards my gmail/drive)

I'm just waiting on my Fibre before I get cracking on uploading all the FLACs and WAVs I have, once its 20k tracks I don't know if I will ever fill it in all honesty... :-)

killbillvol2

EGriff wrote: »

Its not 15GB, that's the storage you have split between Gmail and Google drive.

Its 20,000 songs you can upload, mine were around 35GB altogether.

Correct. I've uploaded just over 5,000 songs which is about 30GB so I could possibly use 120GB (if I had that many songs!).

acurno

Any way of uploading playlists from iTunes to it? I've downloaded the music manager but that has no option for it. Seems to be an issue from what I've been reading.

mik_da_man

Just set this up on my server now.
Have 19,156 songs to upload :eek:

Wonder how long that will take??...

DECEiFER

mik_da_man wrote: »

Just set this up on my server now.
Have 19,156 songs to upload :eek:

Wonder how long that will take??...

Hours to days depending on your upload speed. Even with UPC (10Mb/s upload) it took a whole day as it didn't constantly utilize my full amount of bandwidth.

evolutionqy7

Any one know where music purchased from Google play store is stored on my phone?

Kylo Ren

Do the songs take up memory on your phone or is it taken up on Google's servers through the cloud?

Professey Chin

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Any one know where music purchased from Google play store is stored on my phone?

Cached on your sd card in Android/Data/com.google.android.music/cache

mik_da_man

DECEiFER wrote: »

Hours to days depending on your upload speed. Even with UPC (10Mb/s upload) it took a whole day as it didn't constantly utilize my full amount of bandwidth.

I have 100mb upc, should be finished now, must check when I get home.

DECEiFER

mik_da_man wrote: »

I have 100mb upc, should be finished now, must check when I get home.

I have the same and like I said, it often ceases to use your full bandwidth despite telling it to in the settings. It might still be done but don't get your hopes up. It's fine, though, just let it run in the background and enjoy what has been put up there. Every song that gets uploaded or matched is instantly available to you on the cloud.

evolutionqy7

Chinpool wrote: »

Cached on your sd card in Android/Data/com.google.android.music/cache

Not there. I've read a few posts since and it seems that these files are hidden on certain devices for some reason.

Professey Chin

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Not there. I've read a few posts since and it seems that these files are hidden on certain devices for some reason.

Looks like theyre stored on the root in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music

evolutionqy7

Chinpool wrote: »

Looks like theyre stored on the root in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music

Yup. Kinda silly.

MagicMarker

Yeah, I wanted to play my offline content via power amp. Apparently this is possible but you don't see any tag info, its all "unknown artist", so kinda pointless really.

DECEiFER

MagicMarker wrote: »

Yeah, I wanted to play my offline content via power amp. Apparently this is possible but you don't see any tag info, its all "unknown artist", so kinda pointless really.

Really? The tags should be done properly, I normally download songs I purchase on my desktop and the tags are all done properly. I don't have any music on my Nexus, I'm happy enough to stream, so I can't confirm how it works when you download to a phone.

It is also a bit crap if they're saving to the /data partition and not the SD card.

biebiebie

If you're streaming everything how do you listen if you're abroad with no data connection? Can you still have it on your phone?

Mimikyu

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evolutionqy7

biebiebie wrote: »

If you're streaming everything how do you listen if you're abroad with no data connection? Can you still have it on your phone?

You can choose to keep songs on the device.

Also you can download them from Google Play store website directly big you want proper mp3's.

Professey Chin

Just realised the other day my all-access trial was up. Charged my credit card without any problems so yippee \o/