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Hey there all, I've been working with Android relatively well for the last six or so months and have been utterly shocked by the complete lack of mediaplayer software that will play streaming radio. I have two .m3u files and one .pls that I've tried in the stock player, Meridian, Astro mp, WinAmp Mobile, StreamFurious pro, and RadioHeart, but none of them will play it. Has anyone seen a media player or even a standalone program for Android that will play streaming radio files?
Thanks.
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XiiaLive Lite?
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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XiiaLive Lite?
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Bernie Nolan said:
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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Sorry, no dice on any of those.
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I can't believe it - nobody has got streaming radio to work on android?
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VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
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VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
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Good call; I gave that a shot and found that I couldn't play the playlist files themselves, but opening them in a text editor and grabbing the URL did the trick for all but one of my radio stations, an ASX playlist (which I actually haven't used in a while, so this doesn't necissarily mean that ASX is out of the question as the stream could've changed).
I did find that to switch between streams would cause an FC, but it would be fine once it started up again. Hopefully they get this working even better, but until then, I still have to ask, is this the only thing on Android right now that can play streaming radio?
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Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
I use the standard "boxed" streamers like Tunein, Slacker, Jango and Sky.fm so the platform will work with radio. Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
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At least we're somewhere, even if the process is tedious. It's amazing to me how there is absolutely NO software in however many years we've had Android (the only smart platform left on the market) that there is no better way to stream radio; hopefully the newer releases of VLC will finally implement this. Gave WinAmp a try too, and no dice with that either. Hopefully somebody will get this figured out.
I mean, if the Epic users are banned from the privilege of listening to FM radio, you'd think we could at least stream something. Guess the whole radio thing wasn't meant to be (short of pasting the URLs into VLC Alpha) - maybe Samsung wins this one.
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Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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Gave "M3U Player", "Kamama's", and "ServeStream" a try this afternoon, and they don't seem to be able to play any streaming radio, M3U or otherwise from my playlist files (one of them might have had the tedious "pasted URL" option that VLC mobile had, but nothing we haven't covered so far).
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I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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Jogjastreamers
I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
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I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
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I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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panmoto said:
what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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I don't think I have it installed right now, but I do remember trying it and it unfortunately not working.
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kainppc6700 said:
I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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spunker88 said:
VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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kainppc6700 said:
I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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I keep checking the VLC website to see if they will have any info on any official builds, but nothing has appeared yet:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
There are also the unofficial builds here that are being updated every few weeks or so.
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kainppc6700 said:
I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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Peregrinis said:
You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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In that case, you're in the right "waiting room". Right now, the closest thing we have to a solution is using one of the prerelease "XDABrewed" (I just made that one up) versions of VLC. Instead of simply opening a playlist file with the app though, you've gotta first open the playlist file with a text editor, copy the stream URL out, then paste it into VLC and it'll play. Also, if you decide to listen to a different stream, you have to fully exit VLC and start it again. This might seem like a lot of effort, but it is an early "alpha" sector build and there hasn't even been an official release of any kind yet.
If you find anything better, be sure to let us know!
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Is there a good player that will stream all my music in a Music folder I created? I can play them but it only lets me pick one song at a time. I would like to just pick them all and put it on shuffle. -thanks
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Is there a good player that will stream all my music in a Music folder I created? I can play them but it only lets me pick one song at a time. I would like to just pick them all and put it on shuffle. -thanks
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this is what i am discovering. it's bad enough listening to studio music, but it totally kills the flow of live shows. anyone got a good answer?
beyond that, google music and streaming media player both stop if i steer away from them. ES Media Player is the only one that will allow me to do other things on the phone at the same time. the issue with it, however, is that it doesn't stop if i get a call. i answer and the music keeps playing.
ideas?
There is a player I use called CloudAround. It's in the market and it's great!
you can also try MusicDropNPlay
Bringing this up again to see if there are any new recommendations. I'm downloading CloudAround now and will report back.
How do you like CloudAround?
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Bringing this up again to see if there are any new recommendations. I'm downloading CloudAround now and will report back.
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Let us know what you think of CloudAround. We are running in the fast lane with it and have some large features coming this month. We are adding selective sync (no more syncing your 100GB of data for just 5GB of music), folder views (for songs you don't have tagged or weren't recognized), and m4a support (pending Jan launch).
We're always open to suggestions as well.
Have a great day
Lots of hype about XBox Music, but so far I can't figure out how to use it on my Lumia 920. There's no XBox Music app that I can find. Can anyone help?
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Lots of hype about XBox Music, but so far I can't figure out how to use it on my Lumia 920. There's no XBox Music app that I can find. Can anyone help?
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You have to subscribe to Xbox Music Pass first.
After subscribing the streaming should be integrated into the Music + Video hub.
You don't need a subscription to stream music you just need to add them to your cloud with the music app in windows 8. If you go to settings then on windows phone you can turn on or off sync with cloud. I do not have a pass but I do have a surface and an HTC 8X and am listening to xbox music right now .
the music app is xbox music, nothing needed to download, it's built into the phone.
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the music app is xbox music, nothing needed to download, it's built into the phone.
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I am an Xbox Music Pass owner, but I cannot seem to get all the music in my collection into the Xbox Music collection on my 8X. It syncs a few songs, around 300, but nowhere near the amount of songs I have in the collection on my PC. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong, if anything?
There does seem to be a problem with the "cloud collection" in xbox music for wp8. Here is an issue I had:
-went to download an album from the Store using my paid Xbox Music Pass subscription
-saw that it was already "in my collection" and therefore I could choose between buying it outright or streaming it
-went into Xbox music and turned on "show my cloud collection"
-lo and behold, the artist/album was NOT THERE to download
I had to actually stream the album, go to the Now Playing screen, hit the three dots, tap Download, then skip to the next track and do the same thing. By the time I got to the last song Xbox Music had crashed and the Store wouldn't open. I had to reboot the phone and try again --TWICE-- before it worked.
It's great when it works, but it rarely works. We're all beta testing this, folks.
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I am an Xbox Music Pass owner, but I cannot seem to get all the music in my collection into the Xbox Music collection on my 8X. It syncs a few songs, around 300, but nowhere near the amount of songs I have in the collection on my PC. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong, if anything?
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the xbox music app on both ends (PC and phone) are a mess with management and syncing. personally i just download what i want on my phone via the phone store, it's not ideal (esp if you want a bunch of stuff or have things organized a specific way on the PC) but it's less headache for me right now.
Hey everyone I've jumped over from the iPhone/Apple ecosystem so don't shoot me, but I'm really disappointed with this HTC Media Link HD. I've still got Airplay running side by side and these problems don't exist. I don't mean that to argue about Airplay and whatnot because neither companies are paying me royalties to argue for or against them. I just mention it because I can Airplay stream and mirror without a hitch so I don't want to fend off "your wireless network stinks" responses. I've got an Asus N66 and can sustain mbps back to my NAS/ESXi well beyond what this needs, and I can also stream non-hand braked blu rays without problem. I understand there is differences between streaming and mirroring, but also as I understand this should be a wireless direct connection.
Anyone having these problems:
1. Google Play (perhaps the latest version only) does not look to work with my Media Link. It will play one song and then stop as it tries to load the next song. Manually restarting the next song doesn't resolve I have to close and re-open. Spotify works fine.
2. Any flash I've tried to stream results in audio and video out of sync. I can mirror flash movies across airplay without this issue.
3. Audio cuts in and out in Spotify all the time. I can rarely get 2 songs to play in a row without chop. The cut outs are brief, but still very annoying.
Thanks for any help! Love the phone quite a bit, this is probably my first disappointment.
I have the same problem trying to stream google play music to media link. It only plays one song and it won't play any other songs until I disconnect from media link again - it works fine if its not connected to media link - but with media link only one song?
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I have the same problem trying to stream google play music to media link. It only plays one song and it won't play any other songs until I disconnect from media link again - it works fine if its not connected to media link - but with media link only one song?
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This issue exists with Google Play Movies as well. I tried contacting support about it a couple months ago with nothing ever coming from it. I was trying to play All Access via Play Music today and ran into the same problem. The songs will not even play when the Media Link HD is connected. I suspect this is some DRM related code put into all the Google media apps. I submitted a support email to Google as will attempt to get as far through to the real tech support people as I can to see if this incompatibility can be resolved. I urge you all to do the same. Stupid DRM...it ruins everything.
It won't play tv.com either, it will play cnn live broadcast, and vevo.
Hey guys,
I've been using GMusic for a while now, but I always found it very limited and not exactly to my taste.
Does anybody know a better music player that can load songs from GMusic?
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Hey guys,
I've been using GMusic for a while now, but I always found it very limited and not exactly to my taste.
Does anybody know a better music player that can load songs from GMusic?
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not sure if google put the music you buy onto your device or its streaming the music but you might want to take a look at cyangenmods apollo.
Trozzul said:
not sure if google put the music you buy onto your device or its streaming the music but you might want to take a look at cyangenmods apollo.
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It streams all your library, and that's what special about it.
Apollo doesn't support Google Music streaming.
Any other suggestions?
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It streams all your library, and that's what special about it.
Apollo doesn't support Google Music streaming.
Any other suggestions?
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i think there is a way to get it onto your device thought, i got one of their free albums and it was on my device even though data and wifi was turned off. dig around in the files maybe?
The music that's cached is on your device, but digging through the files won't do anything unfortunately, each one deeply encrypted, believe I've tried
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i think there is a way to get it onto your device thought, i got one of their free albums and it was on my device even though data and wifi was turned off. dig around in the files maybe?
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There is a way to do that, but then I lose the whole point of streaming - not having the files taking up space on my device.
The files you found in Apollo were probably some temp cache files leftovers.
So no suggestions?
Maybe someone else knows about an app like the one I'm looking for?
Maybe even some plugin that enables players to stream from Google?
been trying to find something for a while with no luck... I think its a great service, and the app isn't even that bad, but sometimes I just need that music to stream through another music program for a certain feature or option... or just because I say so! lol
(Most of my music I uploaded to the cloud was flac, so it is played back as 320kbps... In some areas I get only 1 bar of 3g, and at worst music playback may pause for 5-10 seconds... but even this is a rare occurrence... Others have complained about the quality, but I think it's great considering I have the options set for high quality playback only and still don't have issues)
what I don't quite understand, is the talk of 'lack of an api' for Google Music streaming.....
However, Android app's for DLNA or other wireless streaming, such as Bubble UPnP, and this app which streams to 'Sonos'? wireless speakers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.youtec.android.macronos&hl=en
They DO support streaming from google music - the actual CLOUD (sorry it bothers me that someone names an app Cloud Music Sniper and flaunts allowing access to google music, then turns out its for the OFFLINE available apps that you pin for offline access? Oh and shockingly there is an app called Offline Music Importer that works the same - except it doesn't piss me off by implying it can access anything associated with my music on the cloud!) /end rant
So why are these streaming apps like Bubble UPnP able to access my Google Play Music collection on the cloud so I can play it back through my home receiver - yet I can't get it to work with a 3rd party music player at all? Hell, all I honestly want is a stupid visualizer, preferably that I can set as a live wallpaper... but they only seem to work with 1 out of every 5 songs that plays.... regardless of offline or streaming... and that REALLY confuses me =/
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been trying to find something for a while with no luck... I think its a great service, and the app isn't even that bad, but sometimes I just need that music to stream through another music program for a certain feature or option... or just because I say so! lol
(Most of my music I uploaded to the cloud was flac, so it is played back as 320kbps... In some areas I get only 1 bar of 3g, and at worst music playback may pause for 5-10 seconds... but even this is a rare occurrence... Others have complained about the quality, but I think it's great considering I have the options set for high quality playback only and still don't have issues)
what I don't quite understand, is the talk of 'lack of an api' for Google Music streaming.....
However, Android app's for DLNA or other wireless streaming, such as Bubble UPnP, and this app which streams to 'Sonos'? wireless speakers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.youtec.android.macronos&hl=en
They DO support streaming from google music - the actual CLOUD (sorry it bothers me that someone names an app Cloud Music Sniper and flaunts allowing access to google music, then turns out its for the OFFLINE available apps that you pin for offline access? Oh and shockingly there is an app called Offline Music Importer that works the same - except it doesn't piss me off by implying it can access anything associated with my music on the cloud!) /end rant
So why are these streaming apps like Bubble UPnP able to access my Google Play Music collection on the cloud so I can play it back through my home receiver - yet I can't get it to work with a 3rd party music player at all? Hell, all I honestly want is a stupid visualizer, preferably that I can set as a live wallpaper... but they only seem to work with 1 out of every 5 songs that plays.... regardless of offline or streaming... and that REALLY confuses me =/
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found this baby:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2169761
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THANKS! Know a way to pick output device for the Web based version?
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found this baby:
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WOW! thank you so much for letting me know about this! :good:
I'm definitely gonna check it out and see how the streaming quality compares...
[sometimes it makes the difference between playing and buffering when using the Google Play Music app's settings for mobile streaming - the High, Normal, and Low quality setting]
Regardless, this is a good step in a good direction... I know Bubble UPnP app and even some file explorer apps could access cloud storage, including the google music account - so I'm glad someone finally incorporated that in a way that let other music players on the device see the cloud storage as if they were local!
As exciting as it is, I'm also cautiously optimistic... While this means that Google's All Access music service will become much more attractive and viable for multiple device use compared to it's competitors --- there will, of course, be issues regarding protecting digital rights. Already I mentioned the 'misleading' programs that allowed ON DEVICE/'pinned' music from Google Music to be played in 3rd party players, and some convert the file to a properly labeled mp3. Considering Google Play Music already allows for All Access subscription users to do the same to songs within their entire catalog (that is, 'pin' it to the device for offline play - which was really a surprise to me), this means those same programs can now convert the All Access music that is pinned to allow offline play into proper mp3 files.... Thus with some coding to make the process faster, one can essentially download any song they want from All Access and keep it as an mp3 - altho it is only meant to be a subscription service and the option to pin music from all access is just supposed to allow access to the subscription service without signal or without eating up data from a data plan.
I guess that means if Google Music wants their music streaming service to succeed, rather than taking away support for 3rd party players - they must provide an official API and a better means of protecting the songs stored for offline playback using a database and/or file level encryption for the 'pinned' songs. I'd hate to see the ability to use the service on other players be stripped and locked down even more to a single player due to these kind of concerns that Google surely already sees as an issue and is likely brainstorming solutions.
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On the topic of Google Play Music, does anyone happen to know of a similar solution regarding Google Music Streaming on a DESKTOP ??
I have found gmusic (not the iOS app), but a standalone program that sits in the system tray...
http://gmusic.codeplex.com/
Some of the chrome plugins actually offer better features (last.fm integration, lyrics, etc....), but the one I found that said it allowed use of media keys didn't work for me...
This is the only one I found that allows me to A) not get my music player lost in a massive field of tabs, and B) change songs while playing a game!
The Main Player window, although, is nothing more than a customized browser window (like the ability to view webpages within winamp and other programs). It is nice that it is a separate icon not mixed in among other browsers, supports media keys, can be minimized etc ----
The one major thing I'm still unable to find a solution for, is the ability to select (non-default) audio output device!!
I have always had my pc connected to my receiver/surround sound system since I got 'my own' computer, so being able to select the audio output is crucial for me when playing music, as I direct the music through digital output to the sound system, but still want to hear other audio through the output jack.
Many times I'll have -Music through digital optical output, -Game SFX through pc speaker output, and -Google Hangouts (for voice chat with teammates) through USB headset.
However it isn't as common for a game to have audio device options as it is for a music/media player.... and always remembering to alt-tab after the games started to change the the default device is a major pain!
(Not to mention even if I'm just listening to music, I don't want to hear audio from a random ad... esp when I can't track down the source of the ad among my tabs, and it is blaring loud out the sound system along with my music)
Many people have complained/requested this to be a feature of Google Chrome - of course the Google team reading these complaints are thinking from the perspective of a simple web browser, something that usually has no need for such a feature...
However, plenty have brought up the issue of Google's Music Service being web-based, and thus such a feature is needed.
I'm not quite sure it is an issue that needs to be addressed by the Chrome browser, but it should definitely be an option within the Google Music web app itself - similar to how one can choose their input and output device in Google Hangouts, which is also a web-app run within a browser.
Of course, the best solution for me would be to find someone that has created something similar to GMusicFS that allows the music to appear as if it is local (similar to google drive's client) or if one of the better music players (Winamp, Foobar, MusicBee, etc.) had an extension somewhere that allows adding cloud music services like Google Music.
Anyways,
@danielfiller Thanks so much for pointing me to that app!
(sorry to any mods about how this post isn't -exactly- a proper topic for its location. Its just that Google Music is cross platform, not limited to mobile devices. While my question does not relate to any mobile platform, it is regarding the exact same functions the android app provides for the exact same streaming service.)