Better than the preinstalled app
Play Music is essentially a Google Drive for your music; you upload audio files to the website server, and theyre available on all your devices. I imported my iTunes library effortlessly, and the best part was that my phone, after downloading and signing into the app, quickly synced up, as well.
Ive found this music app to be much better than that abomination of a music app already installed on iOS devices, with a lack of that asinine drop-down menu for genres, artists, and others. In Play Music, it isnt a drop down menu, its a bar at the top of the screen you scroll through, or you can swipe to go to the next menu.
Ill try my best to focus on one topic at a time for the rest of this review.
Adding music. Theres no effort involved. Just go to the website on your computer, click “upload music” and drag your audio files into the screen. Ive found that nearly all audio files are supported, reducing the workload even more. As Ive said already, I managed to import my entire iTunes library seamlessly, and it only took about ten minutes to upload. The feature is just perfect.
Editing music. On the site, you can just right click and select “edit info”. To make matters even better, Play Music suggests certain bits of metadata for some files, which was extremely accurate for me. And I didnt have to go scouring the Internet for the album art for “Path of Genocide”; Play Music had it right there for me.
However, there are a few problems with my experience. First off, I uploaded I Am Machine but it didnt begin uploading for another half hour. Also, when I uploaded Andy Ritchies King Ding-A-Ling album, it was split into two albums, despite each file having the same metadata.
And I believe it would be nice to have a feature that would let the app open to a certain page upon opening it; it would be MUCH quicker.
And Id like to see a Notification Center widget that let me control the currently-playing song, trackbar and all.
All in all, Ive decided to delete my iTunes library off my phone and permanently switch to Google Play Music. Play Music proved to be a beyond-good alternative to iTunes, with wireless syncing, easy-to-update library features, and much more. You cant get any better than this, I promise you that.
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