Android is reaching many formats of devices out there, including TV sets, consoles, cars and wearables, so it’s hard to develop a cohesive app experience for all of them. Google is helping developers out by releasing an app called Universal Music Player. The software is used as a reference app that helps developers learn how to get an app on…
It’s been 4 years since Google launched its online music service and today Google Play Music is evolving. Initially you could upload 20,000 songs to the cloud and stream them to the browser, handset or tablet. Today, that number goes up to 50,000 songs. The service is free for users in supported countries, with the list being quite long. The…
Google started rolling out at the end of June a fresh update for Google Play Music, that includes a few welcome features related to last week’s Google I/O event. This fresh software bumps the Google Play Music version to 5.6. The new version brings an interesting concept of device organization. You are only authorized to have 10 devices with…
There’s a big Shazam update coming Android’s way, but as usual iOS was the first to get it. This fresh update that arrived hours ago focuses on social networking and sharing the songs you find. There’s also an improved lyrics experience and a revamped user interface. Users will be shown detailed artist bios, redesigned album and song…
With so many to go around why would only Samsung miss out on this one. I mean the music streaming business. Given their already strong offerings in this regard and own Store – well think about it. It comes quite easy. Through in a new player and separate server. Sign a few contacts and hit the accelerator pedal. Unfortunately the service is, how…
I am the type of user that takes into account the quality of my music before anything else. I am also a Google Play Music user and have most of my songs stored in the cloud. Given these facts one can realise that I use the stock Google Music app quite a lot. The lack of features in regards to it is not that annoying to me – though the Lyrics…
It is true that the latest update to version 5.3.x for Google Play Music has barely arrived. It is also true that a large number of new versions in a short time can become frustrating. However version 5.4.1 for Play Music brings so many improvements you will be glad it came. It’s really an important step for Android. Through Play Music Google…
One thing one could never say is that is that it is a hard task to find a music player on the Play Store. However when it comes to a very good such app it’s a whole different story. As I’ve tested for you a lot of these apps I can honestly say that there are some good and very good options out there. I can also state that there are ones…
To estimate the number of Google Play Music adopters is rather a difficult task. What we do know is that the service offers the means to store 20.000 songs for free at the highest quality, with the possibility of paid expansion. As for the stored music, you can have it anywhere there is an internet connection, including in case of Android through the…
Beats has been preparing a brand new streaming service for a while now and it appears it’s ready for the big takeoff. Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s company is ready to offer us a brand new rival for Spotify and Pandora apparently. Their service and probably associated app will debut on January 21st, which is pretty soon. This product comes…
