Half-baked, rarely updated, needs an overhaul.

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 This real outdated layout on the Now Playing screen zooms in to fit the center of the artwork into the vertical layout of the screen.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.

Paul VQ about Google Play Music, v3.38.1007