The Google Play Music app has received a bit of a refresh this morning. Download it and you’ll get KitKat SD card support, which gives offline music capability.
Not only that, but there’s the ability to shuffle songs in the “All Access” feature and Google have made it easy to share links of songs, artists and albums to those special online friends.
Grab it here or dive into your Google Play link now.
Yes, you read correctly! Google has finally launched its Google Play Music app for Apple's iOS!
For any iPhone user who does not know it, Google has recently launched its "access service" that allows subscribers to listen to music in a manner similar to Spotify, Deezer, but the free version is similar to Apple's iTunes service of party.
The free option allows you to upload up to 20,000 songs to their servers a current in the device or PC browser. Equivalent service from Apple's £21.99 per year!
The "All Access" option is £9.99 per year and allows access to the huge collection of Google again from the application or from your device browser PC. The "Access" option is also available as a watch this 30-day free trial version.
Unfortunately at this point there is an iPad app, but you can use the application iPhone/iPod touch in 2 x mode.
Get the official app for your iOS device from the App Store
It is a continual frustration for those outside of the United States that Google tend to release all of their services for the US first, sometimes leaving the rest of the world to fend for themselves or wait a ridiculously long time for said service to become available in the users country.
Chromecast, Google Play Music, Magazines, Books and Television are all on the list of goodies that were available in the US but not anywhere else at launch and in some cases many are still not and fall under the heading of “Coming soon…..”
Well, coming soon has now arrived for 7 more countries when Google Play Music All Access is concerned.
The following countries now benefit from Google’s music streaming service that allows access to its entire library to play on demand and even make available offline.
Czech RepublicFinlandHungaryLiechtensteinNetherlandsRussiaSwitzerlandSo, if you are in one of the countries listed above, open up Play Music and stream away till your heart is content. You won’t be disappointed!
Isn’t it great when a company follows through and actually does what they said they would? A year ago…..
It was about this time last year when Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were announced and along with them came Xbox Music, which was Microsoft’s Music streaming service, which also let you download music for offline listening.
Well today is the day that Xbox Music will be available on Android and iOS. Hopefully.
Today is a big day for Xbox Music: we’re releasing on iOS and Android and we’re also adding free streaming to our Web player, making Xbox Music and its 30 million tracks available on millions more devices and for free to anyone with a Web browser.
Xbox Music is coming up on its one-year anniversary and we’ve learned a lot in that time. Xbox Music is now, more than ever, a service that spans across all kinds of devices—phones, tablets, PCs and TVs—and unites artists with their fans through one common platform.
So far only the iOS version is available here if when the Android version appears for us UK residents we’ll post a link. For me this is quite something, I’ve been using Xbox Music since it launched on my Surface, Windows Phone and my Xbox and today hopefully I’ll be able to add my Android stuff to that list. Although it sounds like the Android version won’t let you download music just stream it instead, which might be a no no for me, several times a year on holiday I need music stored offline, we’ll just have to see how this pans out.
Update – This is now live for Android here.
Source – xbox
