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[roadwarrior]

UndergroundWire, on 06 March 2012 - 19:58, said:

I know right. Finally we can put our music up in the cloud for free and stream it to our Android devices.

Oh, wait, that has been around since last May. Never mind.

I see that now, but this is the first I've ever heard about it. They certainly haven't promoted it very much it seems (probably because it was only opened to the general public in November).

[JTaylor69]

roadwarrior, on 06 March 2012 - 20:07, said:

I see that now, but this is the first I've ever heard about it. They certainly haven't promoted it very much it seems (probably because it was only opened to the general public in November).

Same, It's still not available for the UK market either.

[UndergroundWire]

roadwarrior, on 06 March 2012 - 20:07, said:

I see that now, but this is the first I've ever heard about it. They certainly haven't promoted it very much it seems (probably because it was only opened to the general public in November).

Sorry that you didn't hear about it till now. But what I don't understand is how you missed it. Sure I read it on better sites than NeoWin but I also saw it posted on this site as well. It was on the main page so either you glanced over it or you don't read tech news often.

Anyway, you are heard about it now so have fun with your cloud music.

[JTaylor69]

News now on front page
http://www.neowin.ne...llo-google-play

[roadwarrior]

UndergroundWire, on 06 March 2012 - 21:45, said:

Sorry that you didn't hear about it till now. But what I don't understand is how you missed it. Sure I read it on better sites than NeoWin but I also saw it posted on this site as well. It was on the main page so either you glanced over it or you don't read tech news often.

Anyway, you are heard about it now so have fun with your cloud music.

I read Neowin pretty much daily, but even so, it is easily possible to miss a story, especially on a busy news day. Some things are gone from the front page in a matter of hours when there is a lot of stuff going on. And one of the links I saw about it says it was first announced on May 10th of last year. If that is the case, it was the day before my birthday, so I probably wasn't paying a lot of attention to tech news that day or the next.

[UndergroundWire]

roadwarrior, on 06 March 2012 - 22:17, said:

I read Neowin pretty much daily, but even so, it is easily possible to miss a story, especially on a busy news day. Some things are gone from the front page in a matter of hours when there is a lot of stuff going on. And one of the links I saw about it says it was first announced on May 10th of last year. If that is the case, it was the day before my birthday, so I probably wasn't paying a lot of attention to tech news that day or the next.

Yes it was announced on Google I/O last year and made available as a beta signup. I got my invite in less than 24 hours on three Gmail accounts. I've been using it ever since.

[curme]

JTaylor69, on 06 March 2012 - 21:41, said:

Same, It's still not available for the UK market either.

Then I'm guessing that I am still screwed in South Korea as well.

[JTaylor69]

curme, on 07 March 2012 - 04:50, said:

Then I'm guessing that I am still screwed in South Korea as well.

Music is only available in the US a the moment!

P.S Happy Birthday - hope you have a good day!

[Another Canuck]

JTaylor69, on 08 March 2012 - 00:52, said:

Music is only available in the US a the moment!

P.S Happy Birthday - hope you have a good day!

Not exactly. You should be able to access it outside of the US, you just can't buy music without a US credit card. You're still free to upload your own music.

You might also have to manually install the Music .apk as it is region-blocked in the Market Play Store ( )

[Baines]

Another Canuck, on 08 March 2012 - 04:49, said:

Not exactly. You should be able to access it outside of the US, you just can't buy music without a US credit card. You're still free to upload your own music.

You might also have to manually install the Music .apk as it is region-blocked in the Market Play Store ( )

Not without elaborate proxies. Before Google Play it was just a blank page with a generic, "Google Music is not currently available in your region".
No upload, no browse, no purchase, not even a logo.

At least now we have a logo, and a slightly more concrete message, "We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States."

I previously installed the APK via App Brain as the app wasn't available for me in the Marketplace. Even then it was just a music player. Any upload features resulted in the same old, "not available" message.

[.Neo]

That's nice how Google is now forcing Android users to have fun. You want to do something serious with your phone? Tough break…

[downhillrider]

I thought I read somewhere that if you have a rooted device it wont work?

[Som]

downhillrider, on 08 March 2012 - 23:00, said:

I thought I read somewhere that if you have a rooted device it wont work?

nope, i've got a rooted desire s and it just upgraded and works fine, honestly though i see no difference other than the name, mind boggles why they didn't just call it google market though..

[tsupersonic]

downhillrider, on 08 March 2012 - 23:00, said:

I thought I read somewhere that if you have a rooted device it wont work?

Nope, Play Store/Play Music work just fine on my rooted Galaxy Nexus. However, I can't rent movies via Play Movies (says I have rooted device). I can watch local content though. Not a huge deal as I won't be renting movies from Google anyway.

[osuwildlifer]

Mine's running Cyanogen Mod 7, and the Play Store icon showed up automatically on my phone yesterday. I'm sorry... "Play Store"??? That just looks and sounds dumb. I had the "Market" icon on my home screen, but I'll be removing this new ugly thing.

Agreed with Som above ^... barely any change in functionality. What's the point?