Google Play Music is awesome but....

[Jnorton2724]

I'm really enjoying the new Google Play Music service thing. Really really awesome....but holy crap does it use a ton of data! I thought other streaming music apps were bad but this just burns through data.

Anyone else notice this?

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[B. Diddy]

I wonder if it's because it's also syncing your whole cloud music library, as opposed to streaming music apps that are only concerned with streaming the current song. What happens if you turn sync off when using Google Music?

 

[_X_]

Google Play Music service thing. Really really awesome...but....

I thought you were going to say but $9.99 is not worth it.

 

[Jnorton2724]

I thought you were going to say but $9.99 is not worth it.

Well it would be 7.99 a month for me currently but I'm still wondering if I'll continue after trial. $7.99 or $9.99 isn't very much and I do stream music a lot so I might, having access to full albums instead of a random radio stream is really nice to have without storing music files and taking storage space.

 

[Aquila]

I think it's well worth the money. Having unlimited access to their entire library is pretty huge; especially being able to listen to an entire album, instead of starting with a song and having it pick things it thinks you'll like (radio mode) you can actually just check out a collection. Of course, the data thing could be a turn-off for people and that's understandable. Maybe it's meant to be for wifi or maybe Google doesn't understand that people have tiered data plans? I think in their mind(s) the internet should be free...

 

[urstrinath]

Really its so nice love it

 

[Deleted member 893565]

Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I like it more than spotify currently, mainly because of the integration with my own music collection. However, the data consumption is troubling. I turned off the cache during playback in settings, going to see if that helps at all.

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[NightRacer]

Im new here, an looking to get an HTC One at the end of the month, so im spending all my free time reading up it.
Are yall saying that Google Play Music lets you play any album available for $10 a month? Thats insane. Can you 'bookmark' albums you like, or store them somewhere, or download them? Music/music playing is a big feature for me, and if I can replace my Zune software then all the better. Im all about Pandora, but I dont like limited skips. Maybe ill have to mod it. Who knows.

 

[ab304945]

I didnt notice how much data it goes thru. Though it dont really matter to me

 

[Jnorton2724]

Im new here, an looking to get an HTC One at the end of the month, so im spending all my free time reading up it.
Are yall saying that Google Play Music lets you play any album available for $10 a month? Thats insane. Can you 'bookmark' albums you like, or store them somewhere, or download them? Music/music playing is a big feature for me, and if I can replace my Zune software then all the better. Im all about Pandora, but I dont like limited skips. Maybe ill have to mod it. Who knows.

You can add an album to your library anytime and it stores on you Google account. You can create a radio station based on an artist or play from an album. Its all access to Googles music collection so tons of albums. Its waaay better then anything I've used for a music app but it uses tons of data. After two days of using it I'm at 1GB of used data and that's with about 20 songs played.

I have 3GB cap on my account with 24 days left this month so ya gonna stick to WiFi until they make it a little better for cellular data.

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[_X_]

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Are yall saying that Google Play Music lets you play any album available for $10 a month? Thats insane.

Maybe I'm missing something but that feature has existed with Rhapsody, Pandora, Slacker Radio, and a few others for some time at the same price. I don't get the excitement with Google Music doing this.

 

[Jnorton2724]

Maybe I'm missing something but that feature has existed with Rhapsody, Pandora, Slacker Radio, and a few others for some time at the same price. I don't get the excitement with Google Music doing this.

Pandora let's you search for an album and play all the tracks in it without playing some random artist? Never saw that when I used Pandora.

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[gone down south]

Maybe I'm missing something but that feature has existed with Rhapsody, Pandora, Slacker Radio, and a few others for some time at the same price. I don't get the excitement with Google Music doing this.

Most of those will let you play a single track of your choice, but not whole album in order .

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[paul-c]

Sony Music Unlimited gives you the option to download albums on the phone to listen to in offline mode, saving on data. I'm sure Google Music has this feature too.

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[_X_]

I don't know about Pandora, I never cared for it, but I know Rhapsody does allow that.

 

[gnr_2]

I don't know about Pandora, I never cared for it, but I know Rhapsody does allow that.

Rhapsody definitely does, it's a great way to hear other songs by artists you like but don't want a whole album, but I think it's a lot more than $10 per month.

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[Issemann]

Anyone notice that Google Play Music is constantly running after the latest update?

 

[_X_]

They've dropped the price a few years back, it was, $15 but now it's $10... unless they raised the price

 

[ring o fire]

I have noticed this as well. I was using the old version of play this month and 15 days into my billing cycle I was at gig of data usage. Once I started using the updated app my data usage went through the freakin roof! Please see the attached the photo you can see the gradual use and then a huge spike!

I never experienced this when I was just listening to my own music that I uploaded to the cloud.

I'm really enjoying the new Google Play Music service thing. Really really awesome....but holy crap does it use a ton of data! I thought other streaming music apps were bad but this just burns through data.

Anyone else notice this?

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[Deleted member 893565]

I just started using greenify today, an app that can make other apps go into hibernation when not in use. Seems to be doing the trick so far. Doesn't appear to be affecting streaming playback either, which is what I was afraid of. I'll report back in a day or two with my findings.

P.S. this app requires root.

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