Google Play Music app is a Google-operated music and podcast streaming service and online music locker. It is part of the Google Play line of services. It has millions of songs for you to stream, lets you curate playlists, store thousands of songs, and even upload your own music.
You can listen to songs across Android, iOS, and the web, for free.
Features of Google Play Music
This music app permits you to stream as many songs you want for free. You can listen to free, curated radio without a subscription and even start radio stations based on an activity, your mood, or your favorite popular music. You can also skip songs up to 6 times per hour.
Google Play Music offers an extensive library of songs and albums in its music store. You can make any individual purchase there even if you are not a subscriber. It also allows you to buy entire albums if you want. You can stream songs you purchase through the music store through the Google Play Music app anytime you want.
It permits you to download music to your phone devices or PC for offline listening. You can download tracks as many times as you'd wish. But you must remain logged into Google Play Music with your Google account or those tracks will be removed from your device.
One of the coolest features of Google Play Music application is the ability to upload your own music collection to Google’s servers. You can upload up to 50,000 to your account through the Music Manager app for Chrome extension.
Based on your choice and taste Google Play Music offers personalized recommendations to you. It tracks the songs you listen to and the ratings you give them to give you recommendations of similar songs.
When it comes to music discovery, Play Music is the best. It categorises music in many types so that you can find your desired songs quickly.
- Top Charts — Contains the most popular music right now according to Google Play Music’s back-end stats. It can also be filtered by genre, albums, or songs.
- New Releases — It has the latest albums added to this music application. You can also filter them by genre.
- Music Stations — Hundreds of curated playlists are categorized by genre, activity, mood, decade, and age here.
- Song and Artist Radio — It is dynamically generated music warehouses based on a certain song or artist.
- Sound Search — This feature can help you identify any song you randomly hear playing nearby.
You can also use Google Play Music for listening to podcasts. It is very simple to find and download thousands of different podcasts. Podcasts are split into two dozen categories there and the selection is growing every day.
Google Play Music app supports various audio file formats that include - MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, ALAC, etc.
All the files are converted to MP3s during the upload process, and each can’t exceed 300MB.
- Listen to Music on Different Devices
You can use this application to listen to music on your computer or mobile device, Android TV, Sonos, or with Android Auto, Android Wear, or Chromecast by signing in to the account you use on it.
- Create Playlists and Radio Stations
Play Music app allows you to create playlists and start radio stations based on your favorite artists or songs in your library (available in certain countries).
Subscribing to Google Play Music application gives you some additional benefits. Such as,
- Use the family plan where up to six family members can enjoy it for one low price.
- Get access to over 35 million songs on demand.
- Skip as many songs as you want.
- Create and share playlists up to 1,000 songs each.
- Get a YouTube Music Premium membership.
- Download music to your device and listen when you're offline.
- Ad-free service.
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