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by Andrew Martonik
Jun 14, 2013
New Play Music settings could cut your streaming data usage in half
The launch of Google Play Music All Access last month reminded many of us just how much data the app uses for streaming and ca...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 13, 2013
We've found ourselves plenty impressed with Google Play Music of late, but one area of concern has been with mobile data usage. Looks like that's being addressed in the most recent update (v...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jun 13, 2013
It isn't perfect, but All Access is a step closer than anything else I've found
Like many people this week, I received an email from Google Play as a gentle reminder that my free trial f...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 31, 2013
'All Access' doesn't have to mean 'all of your data cap'
Google Play Music is a pretty great service, especially when you have chosen to give up $9.99 per month for the new &...
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by Andrew Martonik
May 15, 2013
Improvements in design highlight the latest music subscription service
At today's massive Google I/O keynote, one of the bigger announcements was centered around music. Not only did we get t...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
Google announced a music subscription service today called Google Play Music All Access. It provides unlimited access to music for $9.99/month (or $7.99/month if you sign up for the free trial befor...
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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
Google launches subscription music service, $9.99 per month, 30-day free trial
We're live in San Francisco for the Google I/O keynote presentation, where the search giant unveiled its new mu...
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by Sean Brunett
May 15, 2013
Earlier in the still-ongoing Google I/O keynote, Google announced Google Play Music All Access, a new subscription service aimed at providing any music you want for a monthly fee of $9.99 ($7.99 if ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 22, 2013
According to sources of the Financial Times, and corroborated by The Verge's own sources, Google has been talking to music labels about licensing deals for a subscription music service to launch...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 30, 2013
Google Play Music has just received a notable update to add a few features that have been bugging users for some time now. Right off the top you'll spot a proper reverse button on the music widg...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 18, 2012
With the roll out of Google Music in Europe we saw Google include the scan and match feature that offers up a quick scanning of your library and then instantly makes the tracks available in the clou...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 19, 2012
There's been a whole lot of talk about Google Music in the recent weeks, as Google has been furiously rolling out features to new countries and signing big content deals to back them up. Play Mu...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 16, 2012
Following Monday's Google Play Music launch in Europe, Google's music matching service has been enabled for European users. Similar to iTunes Match, the new service works through the existin...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 12, 2012
Google Play Music services are now live in some European countries. Warner Music Group artists now available worldwide.
Today isn't just Nexus Eve, at least, not in Europe anyway. Today also...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 12, 2012
It's almost as if someone at Google was listening to the podcast... After an interesting question about gapless playback in Google Music on our 115th show, Google Music has been updated to suppo...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 29, 2012
Warner Music Group artists also coming to Play Music
Google has announced that its Google Play Music service will be coming to European shores on Nov. 13, which also happens to be the day N...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 04, 2012
During the last 24 hours Google has pushed out a series of updates to their Android applications. While some are simply for bug fixes, some -- as is becoming a little too frequent -- have no sign of...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 22, 2012
The Google Play Music app has received an update, which brings a few welcome and overdue features. One new feature is the support for expanded notifications for Jelly Bean devices. One of our favori...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 20, 2012
Heads up if you're thinking about grabbing one of Sony's new Google TV set-top boxes -- unfortunately Google Play Music is not compatible with the device(s). The UPS man dropped one off here...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 10, 2012
Google has long since been known as a company that enjoys placing some not quite complete features on a few of their products out there to mix things up. Those items usually fall under a beta or &qu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 28, 2012
The folks at doubleTwist have updated their Android app to version 1.7.3, and it brings a pretty nice change log along with. In addition to playing your music collection from the device and syncing ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2012
The ink is hardly dry on the new Google Play signage, and newly rebranded Google Play apps are already starting to drop into the Android Market Google Play Store Android apps section. (See, isn'...
