Hi There! Regarding the PC first, the only way to use Google Play Music from a PC to my knowledge is to use the Google Chrome browser, I don’t know of any third party client that will support it however on the Android platform there are a variety of different methods you can use apart from the actual App itself though I am a novice in this department.
If anyone would be interested in following the discussion - or even following along with the discussion of Android and its accessibility, various products etc then you can subscribe to the vi-android list at > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>Type subscribe in the subject line. Anyway I did my exploration of the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S6 using Android Lollypop as Samsung haven’t yet rolled out the Android 6.0 update but I was very pleased with the level of accessibility found in the Google Play Music App. Again, I’m only starting out with Play Music and I’ve probably only scratched the surface but I was certainly able to search for the music I was after, play the songs I wanted, add these to a playlist and do other manipulation, find out about the artist, make the songs available offline and so on, in short a good start. As to what has more content? I appreciate your opinion and comments of course Mary however I’ve heard comments about which has more than what all too often. An example, I know someone who thinks Apple Music is the best thing since sliced bread and couldn’t find some material when looking one day. A mutual friend of ours found that material on Spotify so could it be that it pays to have a finger in every pie if you love your music? I’m a subscriber to Spotify too though I don’t use it as much as I really should but having said that the subscription has paid for itself well over and over by now, Spotify has been there whenever I’ve been after that particular track in a hurry, hearing something on the radio for example and not having enough iTunes Credit available, that sort of thing. I think the big question will be for me whether I’ll give up iTunes and the associated Match/Cloud services in favour of Play Music, Spotify etc or keep them all. > On 23 Jan 2016, at 9:34 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > > I haven't tried google music on a pc. I'm not interested in learning > yet another browser with its add in screen access methods, no thanks, > chrome vox. And I don't agree that google music is the best of the > services. I think apple music has it beat. I have tried google music on > an android device, actually two of them, both running marshmallow, and > since I find the android experience much less efficient than the ios > one, my opinion is based in part on that. Apple music on android isn't > all that much fun either. but their selection is greater than google > music's, imho. I have found a lot of stuff on apple music that I > couldn't even search for on google music, given the issues I have on > android with text typing and editing. On the other hand, if you're a > youtube person, you get youtube red or read, not sure how it is > spelled, as part of your google music subscription. So, no ads. I don't > do much youtube, so for me, that wasn't a draw. But the ease of use and > huge selection of out of the way stuff I find on apple music makes it a > big value for me. depends, I guess, on your devices and how you want to > access stuff and what you want to access. > > Mary > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
