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#881233 19-Aug-2013 20:55

Oops, forgot to cancel it and ended up paying for another month of it. If you joined on the 19th or 20th go and cancel now!!!

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#881241 19-Aug-2013 21:05

richms: Oops, forgot to cancel it and ended up paying for another month of it. If you joined on the 19th or 20th go and cancel now!!!

I had the opposite issue... Damn Visa stopped payment! Was p***ed right off... Lucky it Mastercard didn't reject it.

I'm loving it. Use it in the car all the time!

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#881276 19-Aug-2013 22:00

blakamin:
richms: Oops, forgot to cancel it and ended up paying for another month of it. If you joined on the 19th or 20th go and cancel now!!!

I had the opposite issue... Damn Visa stopped payment! Was p***ed right off... Lucky it Mastercard didn't reject it.

I'm loving it. Use it in the car all the time!

^^ This, I love it!

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#881303 19-Aug-2013 23:18

Likewise. Works great for my requirements. Using BubbleUPnP on my tablet to throw music at my Marantz AVR. A few more projects in the pipeline. Brilliant.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#881304 19-Aug-2013 23:26

BigHammer: Likewise. Works great for my requirements. Using BubbleUPnP on my tablet to throw music at my Marantz AVR. A few more projects in the pipeline. Brilliant.

Bubble UPnP is just ridiculously good.

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#881305 19-Aug-2013 23:32

Having a couple of issues with it, but it does work. Worth the $6 or whatever it was.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#889326 3-Sep-2013 22:43

I got 1 month subscription a few days ago, at the cheaper price before the 31st August cut off.

I am coming from Spotify and so far I do not like this at all.

My Biggest issue I have with this is I cannot find music by decade, there is only genres to be played. I searched for "80's" and all that was listed was 6 Albums, 5 songs and 4 artists. Compare that to Spotify and you could search for decade and genre. I also looked under "Hip-Hop/Rap" and again there was about 5 artists/albums/songs listed. Not exactly sure what I am missing here?

Another issue is the time it takes to buffer when skipping through songs. Selecting a song and then going 30 seconds into the song from the beginning it takes about 4 seconds (on average) to buffer and start playing again.

Hopefully somebody could point me in the right direction....

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#889335 3-Sep-2013 22:55

Forgot to mention, I've set up NFC task launcher to auto-start Google play music every time it detects my car Bluetooth. Absolutely awesome and I don't need to take my phone out at all during my commutes. I tried with tasker but it was slow at detecting and I'd get 5 minutes down the road before it worked.

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#889340 3-Sep-2013 23:03

Interesting idea.

I also found the google music much less responsive to the avrcp control from the stereo compared to rdio. Shame that you cant use avrcp from the buttons on the stereo while enjoying the better sound of the aux in. Wonder if there is a standalone avrcp capable steering wheel remote to bypass the headdeck altogether.

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#889346 3-Sep-2013 23:13

Hmm, good ideas!

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#889348 3-Sep-2013 23:44

Finch: I got 1 month subscription a few days ago, at the cheaper price before the 31st August cut off.

I am coming from Spotify and so far I do not like this at all.

My Biggest issue I have with this is I cannot find music by decade, there is only genres to be played. I searched for "80's" and all that was listed was 6 Albums, 5 songs and 4 artists. Compare that to Spotify and you could search for decade and genre. I also looked under "Hip-Hop/Rap" and again there was about 5 artists/albums/songs listed. Not exactly sure what I am missing here?

Another issue is the time it takes to buffer when skipping through songs. Selecting a song and then going 30 seconds into the song from the beginning it takes about 4 seconds (on average) to buffer and start playing again.

Hopefully somebody could point me in the right direction....

Thanks

The buffering thing is odd, do you otherwise have a good connection with Google services? There is less than a second when I seek right at the start of a song and after it's played for 10 or so seconds there is no buffering at all when seeking.

I've seen the complaint about searching by release year a lot, all from Spotify users. I reckon Google will work on the search functions with Google Music sooner rather than later, they'll hopefully put their smart/learning search to use like the search in Google+ Photos.

Best bet is to use it for a while and you'll soon discover some features you do like, then toss up they make it worth it.

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#894820 12-Sep-2013 16:43

My Biggest issue I have with this is I cannot find music by decade, there is only genres to be played. I searched for "80's" and all that was listed was 6 Albums, 5 songs and 4 artists. Compare that to Spotify and you could search for decade and genre. I also looked under "Hip-Hop/Rap" and again there was about 5 artists/albums/songs listed. Not exactly sure what I am missing here?

Thanks

Already a couple of changes that might interest you.

Not sure if this was already the case on the desktop version but you can now start a radio station based on genre, and some genres have specific-decade sub-genres, still no smart search though "Play me some nineties rock", I reckon that will be coming though.

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#896166 16-Sep-2013 08:45

I had a play with the new genres offering over the weekend. Some of selections seems a bit random. I would not have called Adam Ant or Billy Idol 80's alternative for example :-)

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#896209 16-Sep-2013 10:04

Giggs: I had a play with the new genres offering over the weekend. Some of selections seems a bit random. I would not have called Adam Ant or Billy Idol 80's alternative for example :-)

And this is the advantage Spotify and Pandora have - time. It takes time for either an algorithm or people to sort the music correctly. I believe Panodra do actually rely on staff (and probably users) correctly categorizing the music.

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#896300 16-Sep-2013 11:50

I kind of feel like this is a step or two behind Spotify. Currently it doesn't feel "complete" to me. As the above poster said Spotify has had time on its hand.

Im getting delays when I switch tracks (4-5 seconds on average), cant search by year/decade and when you look up genres instead of listing 100's/1000's of songs it gives you the top 5 currently most played or something like that.

I don't know if I will be sticking with it. I will probably go back to Spotify until this gets sorted. However one major problem I had with Spotify is it would repeat the same songs quite often. Its as If when I listened to music from the 80's it would get 30 songs and play them in a circle.

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