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Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th (macrumors.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the easy-listening dept.

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.

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  1. Google Advertisement Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:Google Advertisement Here by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      If it was really free, they would only ask for your credit card once the four free months are over.

    2. Re:Google Advertisement Here by deltaromeo · · Score: 2

      You can take up the trial and then cancel it 2 minutes later, you will still get the four free months.

  2. So much free milk; why buy a cow? by innocent_white_lamb · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. The real story here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.