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Google very recently unveiled Google Play Music All Access, a subscription music and internet radio service that opens the door to millions of tracks. Let’s find out what new it has to offer.
All Access is a subscription music service that offers 20 million songs for a monthly fee. Basically, you can listen to or download (for offline playback) any of the millions of songs available at Google Play, get recommendations of artists to listen to or purchase based on the music you own and the music you’ve already listened to, and create internet radio stations based on any song anywhere at Google Play.
All of this is not new to us. So, what makes All Access special? Well for starters, while the songs you hear are personalized, meaning they’re added to your playlist based on their similarity to the artist or song you used to start the station (well like any other streaming service), you can actually peek at the songs coming up in the playlist, remove any song that you don’t feel like hearing, reorder the songs on the playlist, skip songs you don’t want to hear as many times as you like. You’re not restricted to a certain number of skips per day or hour, or a certain number of hours of streaming, all of which is unusual for a streaming radio app.
The new Google Play Music also includes a feature called “Listen Now,” which gives you access to the new All Access radio station and suggestions from your own music library. You can mix and match as much as you like, stream your own music and suggested tunes, and access it on Android phones, tablets, and the web
However, All Access’s streaming radio features are only available with a paid monthly subscription. If you’re using Google Music for free, you don’t get any streaming radio. It’s $10/mo, but if you sign up before June 30th, you can get in at $8/mo forever, just for being an early adopter. It comes with all of the features of All Access and Google Music, from the great streaming radio and access to full tracks in Google Music’s massive catalog to the cloud storage and offline syncing we already love. However, it’s important to note that there’s nothing about All Access that’s free. Google Music is free, but All Access, and all of the music and streaming options it opens, costs money. You can, however, try it for free for 30 days.
– Content credit to Lifehacker