![]() ‘Radio’ follows the same principles of dedicated services like Pandora and Blinkbox Music. ‘Playlists’ is where you find new playlists as well as ones created automatically from the most recent music added. Then there’s ‘My Library’ where you’ll find songs uploaded from the Google Music desktop manager to the Google cloud locker plus any songs you’ve purchased from Google Play Music. First up is ‘Listen Now’ where you can see all single tracks, albums, playlists and radio stations recently listened to all in one place. Google Music All Access is broken down into five categories. We are surprised that Google doesn’t offer the ability to customize the look of the player. Some might prefer the predominantly white UI to the darker look on Spotify, but there is very little between the two in terms of intuitiveness. Cover artwork slowly scrolls across the screen once the music is playing. ![]() Here you can choose to shuffle, repeat, skip tracks backwards and forwards, and give the track a thumbs up or down. Player functions sit at the bottom and a click on the cover art launches the full size player. Up top is the search bar and customary three dot Settings drop down. In terms of layout, you still have the sidebar on the left hand side, and the tiled-style content with big visible cover artwork. It doesn’t affect selecting the drop down menu, but it looks a little messy. The app UI is consistent across all devices although we did notice that the sidebar gets cut off. It looks cleaner, more user-friendly and it’s easy to identify music that exists on the device and in the cloud. In its latest guise Google has brought it in line with the rest of the Google Play departments. The original Google Play Music application was a clunky and quite simplistic affair. Now All Access unifies all of your music whether it’s discovering new artists, accessing your entire music library, listening to the personalized radio stations or simply making playlists. Google Music launched in the UK back in November 2012 offering users access to the iTunes Match-style scan and match service and cloud locker service for free. It’s seen as the last piece of the Google Play puzzle, but does it really have what it takes to take on Spotify, Rdio and the rest? We put All Access to the test to find out. Joe brings that same passion to How-To Geek.There’s no ads, plenty of music (including the Beatles), and it’s cheaper than other music streaming services if you sign up now. ![]() If something piques his interest, he will dive into it headfirst and try to learn as much as possible. Outside of technology, Joe is an avid DIYer, runner, and food enthusiast. After several years of jailbreaking and heavily modifying an iPod Touch, he moved on to his first smartphone, the HTC DROID Eris. He got his start in the industry covering Windows Phone on a small blog, and later moved to Phandroid where he covered Android news, reviewed devices, wrote tutorials, created YouTube videos, and hosted a podcast.įrom smartphones to Bluetooth earbuds to Z-Wave switches, Joe is interested in all kinds of technology. He has written thousands of articles, hundreds of tutorials, and dozens of reviews.īefore joining How-To Geek, Joe worked at XDA-Developers as Managing Editor and covered news from the Google ecosystem. ![]() Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade.
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