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Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google is offering new U.S. subscribers a four-month free trial for its Play Music streaming service in celebration of July 4th. While everyone has their preferred music streaming service, it's hard to pass up a deal like this. The Google Play Music service offers over 35 million tracks and is usually priced at about $9.99 per month, so the offer amounts to a $40 savings. What's more is that customers who sign-up for the trial also gain access to Google's ad-free YouTube Red service, which features original content, and enables offline and background playback of YouTube videos on mobile devices. If you sign-up for the trial and decide it's not for you, you can cancel at any time.
First I have to block all cookies install privacy shit, just that those stalkers would stop serving me ads. Youtube became unwatchable without an add blocker and now ads for google on /.
"it's hard to pass up a deal like this"
yeah... looking at youtube, it probably end up when I play a song on google music I get spoken advertisements...
"so the offer amounts to a $40 savings"
I'm not saving anything if I spend money. There is no savings. Only $9,99 loss
"One thing about pain , when it hits you you feel no music"
-- Ex Windows user
Owning nothing, renting everything. Pretty soon we will be paying to breath.
Well our basic needs are actually pretty cheap now. It is all this new business school that wants to keep bleeding money out of people. Don't sell them a product once, get them to keep paying and paying and paying.
There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.
One example that few people seem to be aware of is built into the free VLC multimedia player that many people have installed anyway for other purposes. Look under Playlists - Internet- Icecast Radio Directory and you'll be amazed at what's there. International radio stations by the hundreds.
I personally use the free version of RadioTunes on my Android phone when I'm driving somewhere. They advertise their own subscription service on it ("Sign up today!") but I haven't heard any advertising for anything else there.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
While everyone has their preferred music streaming service, it's hard to pass up a deal like this.
No, it's really not.
#DeleteChrome
The real story here is the likely reasons Google is practically giving away access to Play Music and YouTube Red. I'd assume that neither is doing particularly well and Google is looking for more subscribers. I don't think either is worth paying for, though. Streaming music is a crowded market and I don't see anything to differentiate Google from other services. As for YouTube Red, I suspect the ads aren't inconvenient enough to avoid and the premium content isn't worth it to most people. When you have to beg people to sign up and go to the lengths to which Google is going, it suggests that it's just not successful. That is a much more interesting story than this slashvertisement.
It would have been helpful to post this story before 5 PM ET on the Fourth. Picnics. Concerts in the Park. Fireworks later, Lots of things to do, I'm at my desk but not for long.
happy traitors day - you perfidious colonials, so say we all.
Modded down to -1. Americans have no sense of humour. (They also spell humour wrong).
Downmodded twice by evil Microsofties. See what I mean?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
(They also spell humour wrongly).
Fixed that for ya.
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Yes you get commercial free streaming and access to a ton of music you don't care about, but you also lose "Instant Mix" which is arguably Google Play Music's best feature. Instant Mix creates a mix from your own music collection whereas Start Radio will play from Google's entire library. You might think you want the latter but I can almost guarantee you will miss the former if you have any investment in your own collection. You will then have to wait months for your subscription to expire (even if you cancel it right away) before the feature will return.
I've been down this road a few times...
The bad moderation is NOT Microsoft's fault. That's slashdot's local incompetence and also the growing intolerance of thought-provoking comments. I would argue that the google is the main culprit there. Pandering to the users is largely based on avoiding showing them hits that they don't like.
However, your main point about the security problems of Windows 10 is related to the EULA problem I mentioned and the increased spyware is actually Microsoft trying to play catch-up in a different form of EVIL, where Google and Amazon are the current leaders.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Will probably switch over to the 14.99/mos (up to 6 ppl) family plan - before it's billed in November.
Can play whole Albums; Artists are suggested (initially) by anything you may of purchased previously on Google Play Store.
I had one purchase, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider (1986). Am listening to Neruda (1983) which I haven't heard in 6 years or more - as I've never gotten around to replacing my 150+ casette tape collection.