Google acquired music streaming service Songza this summer, and now the company is starting to bring Songza-style features to Google Play Music. Starting today Google is rolling out an update to Play Music that will let you stream curated playlists… assuming you’re paying $9.99 per month for a Google Play Music subscription. There’s still a separate […]
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Lilbits (12-18-2013): Dolphin Zero emphasizes private browsing
Over the past few years, private browsing or “incognito mode” has become a standard feature in most web browsers. It lets you surf the web without saving your history or passwords and can come in handy in a few different situations. Want to use someone else’s phone, tablet or PC to check your email without […]
Lilbits (8-08-2013): Straight Talk AT&T SIM cards are back
Straight Talk is MVNO, or mobile virtual network operator. That means the company acts like a phone company, but it actually sells you air time on someone else’s network — typically at a much lower price than you’d pay if you went straight through that larger network. Up until recently, Straight Talk allowed customers a […]
Deals of the Day (6-26-2013)
Google’s All Access music service lets you stream millions of songs on-demand to a web browser or mobile device. The company offers a 30 day free trial, and starting next month users will be able to keep going after the free month is up by paying $9.99 per month. But Google’s offering a discount for […]
Google updates Music app with mobile data usage enhancements
Yesterday Google pushed an update to the Google Music Android app based on user complaints about how much data the app gobbled up starting with the last major update. When the company introduced the All Access service at Google I/O and subsequently updated the app to take advantage of unlimited streaming, the setting that controlled […]
Google’s subscription music service coming soon to iOS
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said there’s nothing stopping the company from releasing apps for Android… if the company saw any reason to do that. Meanwhile, Google has long been offering apps that run on Apple’s mobile devices, including official Google Maps, YouTube, and Gmail apps. Now it looks like Google’s “All Access” subscription music […]
Google Play Music gets new All Access subscription service
Google is rolling out a new subscription-based music service called All Access. It’s available for Android phones and tablets, and you can also use it from the web. All Access is built on top of the Google Play Music service which has been around for a few years at this point. Users can still upload […]
gMusic app gives Google Music a touch of Windows 8 style
Google Music lets you upload up to 20,000 songs to the cloud and stream your music to any PC with a web browser or to an Android device with the Play Music app. While Google doesn’t offer an official Windows 8 app, there’s a 3rd party app called gMusic which makes Google’s music service feel […]
Google Music Android app hacked with black, white, and gray color scheme
The Google Play Music app for Android is a powerful music player that you can use to listen to tracks on your device, music uploaded to Google’s online music service, create instant mixes based on a single song, and more. But the app, which was first released nearly two years ago looks like an app… […]
Google Music gets matching feature, saves you from uploading 20,000 songs
Google Play Music lets you upload as many as 20,000 songs to Google’s servers and then stream them to any device with a web browser or mobile app. You can also re-download songs you’ve uploaded, which makes it a useful service for backing up your music collection. But uploading thousands of songs takes a lot […]