Google Play Music app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
8960 ratings )
Music
Entertainment
Developer: Google
Free
Current version: 3.59.2001, last update: 4 years agoFirst release : 15 Nov 2013
App size: 74.62 Mb
Google Play Music gives you millions of songs and thousands of playlists for any situation. Powered by Google, we serve up music based on where you are and why you’re listening, getting smarter and more assistive as we get to know your tastes. Subscribe to create playlists, listen offline, and get ad-free YouTube Music with YouTube Music Premium (where available).
Free Features:
*Radio based on songs, artists, and albums, plus thousands of playlists hand-crafted by music experts (free n the U.S. and Canada; requires subscription elsewhere)
*Recommendations based on taste, activity, mood, location, and more
*Storage and streaming for up to 50,000 songs from your personal collection, at no cost
Subscription Features:
*Ad-free, uninterrupted listening
*On-demand access to over 40 million songs
*Offline listening
*YouTube Music Premium membership at no additional cost (where available)
*The family plan, where up to six family members get Google Play Music for one low price (where available)
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Pros and cons of Google Play Music app for iPhone and iPad
Google Play Music app good for
The music stops ina few seconds while working on other apps. I noticed it only since 11.3 update yesterday.
I use Bose wireless Bluetooth headphones.
overall this is a really awesome music app. It is easy to navigate artist, find specific songs, or explore new genres. The family plan is great Ive been able to add my mom to it which is nice since it is not something she would normally get her self. I do have a recurring bug, my thumbs up playlist periodically will disappear, this has been an issue for a long time, not sure if it is a problem with other users.
Awesome app and would recommend it to everyone, it has free music.But it would be nice if you could add music that isn’t available in the search.
I love using this app. I can listen to any music I want without paying for a subscription and pick and choose my favorites. However, whenever a song plays on one of the radios that I own in an album, no sound comes out and the radio gets stuck on the same song.
I noticed that there was no functionality for sharing music, links, or even iMessage. This would be a great feature! Coming previously from Android, I was able to share a link to the song so that even those without the Google Play Music app could see what I shared.
Love the app and have been using for over a year or maybe two now, but lately i have been running into this problem that when i want to delete something out of a playlist it deletes the song that is one or two above it. This frustrates me because then i have to figure out how to get the song deleted that i actually wanted to delete and add the new song back and on top of that remembering what song i deleted out of the many in my playlist l. If this bug is fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks You.
Some bad moments
Music part works fine but there is no podcast menu to be found??
The thing I like - YouTube Red and the music are one subscription and makes for tremendous value.
The things I don’t - the audio over headphones and Bluetooth speakers are hollow when compared to Apple Music and sometimes even Amazon Music.
The app needs to be force closed very often because it hangs.
It messes with my CarPlay and also generally has my car restart it’s head unit software and Siri always gets cut short by the app.
The scrolling animation very often stops half way and can’t access the back and search buttons.
The ONLY way to manage your saved music is through recently added or through playlists.
Can’t search your saved music - you may end up adding the same song from different collections if you had forgotten you added it a couple of months ago.
Lastly, and hardly the least - I can’t have Siri pull up a song I want - this is an incredibly underrated feature especially when you’re driving.
I love this service, and the attractive subscription model with YouTube Red. I love the fact that I can upload my library to the cloud and have it anywhere with me.
Small things that get annoying:
• UI needs a facelift. This real outdated layout on the Now Playing screen zooms in to fit the center of the artwork into the vertical layout of the screen. Why even display artwork at that point? The controls could use a little space, or you could add more options down there if you simply made the artwork a standard square.
• Search bar is real dumb. The recent search terms that come up are titles and names I looked up once months ago. What’s the point of that?
• Even if an album or playlist is offlined, the app will fail to load it in a low coverage area, or even if the app is set to Downloaded Only. Why even have the option to download or display only downloaded music if we can only sometimes access it in low coverage?
Tiny little updates could make this app even better than Spotify but lack of attention to detail is holding this app back.
I have a subscription to Google Play Music, have the family plan with YouTube etc... MUCH better than Apple Music 1000000x over when it comes to “bang for the buck”!!! Just need an app for the Apple watch to enjoy it like I do on the phone. I don’t even use iTunes let alone Apple Music. C’mon Google! They say it’s up to you... or is it?
I love this service, and the attractive subscription model with YouTube Red. I love the fact that I can upload my library to the cloud and have it anywhere with me.
Small things that get annoying:
• UI needs a facelift. This real outdated layout on the Now Playing screen zooms in to fit the center of the artwork into the vertical layout of the screen. Why even display artwork at that point? The controls could use a little space, or you could add more options down there if you simply made the artwork a standard square.
• Search bar is real dumb. The recent search terms that come up are titles and names I looked up once months ago. What’s the point of that?
• Even if an album or playlist is offlined, the app will fail to load it in a low coverage area, or even if the app is set to Downloaded Only. Why even have the option to download or display only downloaded music if we can only sometimes access it in low coverage?
Tiny little updates could make this app even better than Spotify but lack of attention to detail is holding this app back.
I can’t delete the song I want gone from my playlist, it’s very frustrating to have a song you want gone from your playlists but the song you don’t want is still there. This needs to be fix it’s not helping anything at all