Google's new free music service is classic Google: Take someone's idea and slap ads on it A week before Apple launches its streaming music service, Google has sneaked out a free-to-use rival. Youtube Video Google's new advert-crammed streaming service won’t cost you a penny to tune into. Be aware, though, that you won’t be able to pick artists directly; instead, you have to stream from playlists (or "stations") …
I hope so to. It's also my social network of choice, chock full of interesting people discussing interesting things, along with all the private circles you don't see.
I guess if you were trying to be ironic, then the reality is, Google+ was a ghost town because nobody wanted to be your friend. I would look closer at yourself not the club that didn't want you to be part of it...
So is this some piece of shit tacked onto Google Play Music that just isn't charged for?
I couldn't find anything free to listen to. A path which looked like it might lead somewhere stopped when it required a credit card for location verification - hell will freeze over before I give google a credit card number even if it is only associated with one of the throw away google accounts I have to keep creating.
you won’t be able to pick artists directly; instead, you have to stream from playlists (or "stations")
Ah, so it'll be shit, then.
"Our team of music experts, including the folks who created Songza, crafts each station song by song so you don’t have to,"
Ah, so it'll be utter shit, then.
You know, people who listen to Katy Perry ad nauseum for a week becuase they're the Best Artist Ever until it's Lady GaGa's turn, or Fleet Foxes or who-the-hell-ever for another five minutes.
Not for the likes of us.
We who are actual fans of actual artists and buy their records (CDs, mp3s, whatever) and listen to them over and over for years at a time. I'm still listening to Meddle and Let It Bleed and Magical Mystery Tour.
I've waxed boringly before on how streaming services seem to be just another way of nudging the unsuspecting into renting everything. Guaranteed income stream for the business and easy to control customers.
Hmmmm "Rent". Where's that old Pet Shop Boys CD.
We who are actual fans of actual artists and buy their records (CDs, mp3s, whatever) and listen to them over and over for years at a time. I'm still listening to Meddle and Let It Bleed and Magical Mystery Tour.
So what new groups are you listening to these days? I find Pandora (my wife's service of choice) a great way to find new music to listen to (and perhaps buy if it doesn't wear on me after a few days). For that matter, it's also great when I'm in the mood for something out of the ordinary, unless you expect to go curate a pile of Polka, classical, or 80s butt-rock for the few times a year I'm in the mood to listen to it.
"people who listen to Katy Perry ad nauseum"
Spotify is supposed to have 20 million tracks. A library which would cost you $14 million at iTunes rates.
Claiming that streaming service is only for those listening to the latest 'hits' over and over again is silly.
I have been pleased and surprised to find on Spotify stuff I last listened to on tape and vinyl decades ago.
Radio stations and the internet equivalent (which is all google is offering for free) are for people happy with a popular, limited, and often repeated selection of music.
It's not bad, artist selection is good, and I do like lots of "uknown" artists, I can find them there. The recomendations are not that good though, Last.fm recommendations where a lot better, service was better too, but it is is no longer available on this side of the woods because some copyright restriction bullshit.
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