Apple picker On October 1, 10, Google entered the fight for music fans on the Czech market when it made the service available Google Play Music for downloading music and, in the case of a monthly flat rate, also unlimited access to it. It thus becomes a competitor both for Apple's iTunes Store and for the streaming service Rdio, which is also available here.
In Google Play, even Czech users can now listen to millions of songs from almost 50 of the biggest publishers, they can be downloaded in MP3 format and for iTunes. But that's where the connection with Apple devices ends for now.
Google Play music is indeed available for smartphones and tablets, but only with the Android operating system. For iOS, for now, Google only links to the web app at play.google.com, where you will also go in your web browser on your computer.
However, users in the Czech Republic do not have to pay for each song or album separately, but can use the service for a monthly flat rate of CZK 149 (a promotional offer of CZK 15 lasts until 11 November 2013) Google Play Music Full, which is unlimited access to the complete music offer. The Full service, compared to the free version, which provides storage of up to 20 of your own songs in the locker and access to it from anywhere, offers unlimited listening, the creation of personalized radio stations and smart recommendations based on your musical tastes. So it's a similar service to Rdio, just a bit cheaper.
However, unlike Google Play Music, Rdio has an application for iOS devices, which can be crucial for many users with an iPhone or iPad. The official application for Google Play Music cannot be found in the App Store, however, for the time being, it can serve as an alternative, for example gMusic 2 application. Although Google claims that they are working hard on the iOS application, it has been several months without results.
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You can try Google Play Unlimited Music for free for the first 30 days to see if you're comfortable with managing and playing your music.
Google has risen again and is nipping at Apple's heels. It looks like it will be more popular here than iTunes, and it is quite possible that they will soon be overtaken by the price offer of movies, which is tragic on iTunes. Google will thus defeat Apple with its own weapons.
It would only be good if Apple had strong competition. At least for movies, it could drive prices down. The current pricing policy is crazy, gold rental companies that have unfortunately already gone bankrupt.
another company without its own ideas that has to look elsewhere to compete
All competition is good for the customer, because competition makes the price (sometimes even meaningful).
If there is a movie on iTunes available for rent from 10-30 CZK, I don't have to download anything anywhere (even if it's legal) and I'll just play it on Apple TV and hope that most of it will go to the author of the movie.
You are already completely degenerate because of Apple :D of course I will pay for something that is available on the internet for free.
How does Google Play relate to Apple?
So maybe Apple started with a cool store called iTunes, to buy music and movies. On the other hand, I get it in the US, but here it just makes me laugh.
I don't laugh when HW is 10-30% more expensive due to copyright fees, which unfortunately never reach the authors (which is the worst part).
I buy on iTunes quite regularly. Do you steal music and movies? Ts.
And like Google it's free? Or do you want to defend stealing music and movies? And make idiots out of people who pay for it?
Sorry, but it's not FREE in the Guild!!!!!!!! I was buying HDDs and royalties were 10% of the price!
So it's not stolen (unless they steal it)!!!!
Movies and music from SHARING servers are… shared :-P
If you have it on your account, it's not public = legal. Just like when you have it on disk at home.
That is a question. Should you spend that time downloading, searching...etc., or pay for it and have it "legally" in other states as well?
When I looked at album prices, they were often a third of the iTunes price. On iTunes for 10 euros and there for 90 CZK. I just skimmed through it quickly. If it was also on IOS, it would be great. Only if apple allows it.
how does it work? Is it like iTunes, that once purchased music is still mine and I can download it again on other devices for free at my own expense? Or can it be downloaded only 1 time or something more limited? And is it without DMR?
yes, it's even better, you download the song in MP3 and it's not hidden anywhere in itunes, when you buy it, it's already on your google account, you can access it even without a subscription
So does this mean that I pay for 1 month's account, have everything downloaded and then I have a year to listen to, and then in a year I pay for 1 month and do it myself?
I don't see it that way, maybe they won't cut it in the guilds again ;-).
I completely switched from itunes to google play today...much better prices, for a subscription (130 kc/month) unlimited listening to a million songs, the possibility to upload 20 of your songs to the cloud as part of the subscription (i.e. what iTunes Match has for 000 is included in the price /year), everything is very nicely processed and luckily iOS is full of 600-party applications
So you will pay NOK 1560 a year for listening to music?
Now I was listening to some mp3 with 70 mb size. The only thing I could find. Highs with sibilants, fragile sound, how else with such a size. I recorded the record there yesterday, you played it today and it sounds somewhere else. They probably only record, they just don't have, you play the records in the charger with the data rate they advertise., I doubt they could improve my mp3 like that.
The controls are so cumbersome, maybe I haven't figured out how to upload a new album there after all the copying. Add to library like in iTunes, there's nothing here, or I couldn't find it.