Google Play Music is already kind of hard to describe since there are so many different ways to use Google’s online music service. Soon it won’t even just be a music service: Google has announced that it’s adding support for podcasts. Currently you can use Google Play Music as a free cloud storage service. Upload up […]
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Deals of the Day (10-15-2015)
Google may run a subscription music service, but the company is also happy to sell you music that you own. Buy tracks from Google Play Music and you get DRM-free MP3s that you can keep. Don’t like paying for music? No worries… there’s often a free album of the week and free music from up and coming […]
Google Play Music launches free radio streaming (with ads)
Google is rolling out an update to its online music streaming service that brings free, ad-supported internet radio stations to Google Play Music. If you want access to on-demand streaming of any song or album available on the service you’ll still need to pay $10 per month for a subscription. But you can now access […]
Google Play Music storage locker now holds up to 50,000 songs
Four years ago Google launched an online music service that you could use to upload as many as 20,000 songs to the cloud and stream them to your web browser, phone or tablet. Now you can upload up to 50,000 songs to Google Play Music. The service is free for users in supported countries, although […]
Chromebooks get document scanner support
Google has released a few updates for Chrome OS that, among other things, adds support for scanners and brings support for uploading music to Google Play Music to Chromebooks with ARM-based processors. Last week Google updated the Stable channel of Chrome OS to 40, bringing a new default wallpaper design, support for custom wallpaper synchronization, and […]
T-Mobile customers can stream Google Play Music, Xbox Music for free(ish)
T-Mobile’s Music Freedom program lets customers stream music from a number of online music sources without that data counting against their monthly data caps. The wireless carrier launched Music Freedom in June, added a few additional services in August, and now the company is more than doubling the number of online music services that are […]
Google launches YouTube Music Key: ad-free music for $8 per month
Want to find a song? It’s probably on YouTube… but you might have to watch an ad before you can stream it, or put up with the occasional take-down notice when a song is uploaded without permission from the artist (or record label). Now there’s a new way to stream music from YouTube. Google is […]
Google Play Music gets Songza-like curated playlists
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 […]
T-Mobile customers can now stream Rdio, Songza, Grooveshark for free (Google Play Music is coming)
T-Mobile subscribers may get “unlimited” internet access, but the company caps the amount of “high speed” 4G LTE data you can use each month before your connection is slowed down. Earlier this year the company started removing music streaming services from that data cap. In June T-Mobile launched Music Freedom which lets subscribers stream tunes from […]
Google Play Music users can only deauthorize 4 devices per year
Google Play Music lets you upload your music collection to the cloud and stream songs over the internet for free. Or you can pay $10 per month for Google Play Music All Access and stream millions of songs. Google lets you stream to any device with a supported web browser and you can link up to […]