Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th (macrumors.com) 45
An anonymous reader writes: Google is offering new U.S. subscribers a four-month free trial for its Play Music streaming service in celebration of July 4th. While everyone has their preferred music streaming service, it's hard to pass up a deal like this. The Google Play Music service offers over 35 million tracks and is usually priced at about $9.99 per month, so the offer amounts to a $40 savings. What's more is that customers who sign-up for the trial also gain access to Google's ad-free YouTube Red service, which features original content, and enables offline and background playback of YouTube videos on mobile devices. If you sign-up for the trial and decide it's not for you, you can cancel at any time.
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happy traitors day - you perfidious colonials, so say we all.
Modded down to -1. Americans have no sense of humour. (They also spell humour wrong).
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(They also spell humour wrongly).
Fixed that for ya.
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-- Ex Windows user
Google Advertisement Here (Score:2, Insightful)
First I have to block all cookies install privacy shit, just that those stalkers would stop serving me ads. Youtube became unwatchable without an add blocker and now ads for google on /.
"it's hard to pass up a deal like this"
yeah... looking at youtube, it probably end up when I play a song on google music I get spoken advertisements...
"so the offer amounts to a $40 savings"
I'm not saving anything if I spend money. There is no savings. Only $9,99 loss
Re:Google Advertisement Here (Score:5, Interesting)
If it was really free, they would only ask for your credit card once the four free months are over.
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It really works! All true! Go get it quick! (Score:1, Troll)
the bleeding edge (Score:1)
Owning nothing, renting everything. Pretty soon we will be paying to breath.
Well our basic needs are actually pretty cheap now. It is all this new business school that wants to keep bleeding money out of people. Don't sell them a product once, get them to keep paying and paying and paying.
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So much free milk; why buy a cow? (Score:5, Informative)
There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.
One example that few people seem to be aware of is built into the free VLC multimedia player that many people have installed anyway for other purposes. Look under Playlists - Internet- Icecast Radio Directory and you'll be amazed at what's there. International radio stations by the hundreds.
I personally use the free version of RadioTunes on my Android phone when I'm driving somewhere. They advertise their own subscription service on it ("Sign up today!") but I haven't heard any advertising for anything else there.
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Because the artists do DESERVE some compensation for their creativity.
ROFLMAO at the notion of the google sharing any of the cash with the creators. The google has become the great master of profiting from OTHER people's creativity. How much content does the google create?
More details on the sins of the google in my earlier comment, but let me just recap:
Today's motto: "All your attention are belong to us, the google."
That will be $10/month, please.
(P.S. I really wish reality was nicer, but at this point th
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There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.
The difference is that with Google Music (and similar subscription services), you choose specifically what you listen to, rather than just picking a category (however narrow). It's the difference between having a vast library of music to choose from, and listening to the radio. That difference may not be worth $10 per month to you, but it is for me.
I beg to differ (Score:2)
While everyone has their preferred music streaming service, it's hard to pass up a deal like this.
No, it's really not.
The real story here (Score:3, Interesting)
The real story here is the likely reasons Google is practically giving away access to Play Music and YouTube Red. I'd assume that neither is doing particularly well and Google is looking for more subscribers. I don't think either is worth paying for, though. Streaming music is a crowded market and I don't see anything to differentiate Google from other services. As for YouTube Red, I suspect the ads aren't inconvenient enough to avoid and the premium content isn't worth it to most people. When you have to beg people to sign up and go to the lengths to which Google is going, it suggests that it's just not successful. That is a much more interesting story than this slashvertisement.
All your attention belong to us, the google (Score:1)
Four months for free? Mostly just tells you how low the actual cost of the content is--but I think it's worth even less. MUCH less than my time.
Production costs? How much actual content does the google produce? Kind of a great business model, if you can get it, eh?
I used to be a big supporter of the google. I really bought into that stuff about avoiding evil, but the money drove them to their new slogan: "All your attention are belong to us, the google."
Share the world's information? No, hoard your personal
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I'm absolutely NOT saying that the google is the only EVIL corporation out there. I'm just unable to name a more EVIL one
Microsoft. But the gap is closing.
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I don't think Microsoft is even close to the #1 EVIL company now, though they probably were in the past. The bigger problem is that there are so many evil contenders at the top that it's hard to pick #1, but I can fairly easily think of at least 10 corporations that are clearly more evil than today's fading Microsoft.
However, I think MS was an important innovator in new forms of EVIL. It is quite possible that the EULA deserves the #1 EVIL innovation rank. The fundamental notion of "Legally it ain't our fau
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I don't think Microsoft is even close to the #1 EVIL company now...
Windows 10 malware/spyware. I rest my case.
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Downmodded twice by evil Microsofties. See what I mean?
Re:All your attention are belong to us, the google (Score:2)
The bad moderation is NOT Microsoft's fault. That's slashdot's local incompetence and also the growing intolerance of thought-provoking comments. I would argue that the google is the main culprit there. Pandering to the users is largely based on avoiding showing them hits that they don't like.
However, your main point about the security problems of Windows 10 is related to the EULA problem I mentioned and the increased spyware is actually Microsoft trying to play catch-up in a different form of EVIL, where G
A Day Late And A Dollar Short As Always (Score:2)
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Or revive it after the holiday? Or implement some mechanism to extend the life of important stories above transient tripe?
Or a mechanism so slashdot could fund the best improvements that the most members want to use?
Gaddap, ya' dead horse, giddap.
Slashvertisement. (Score:1)
Fuck off with the slashvertisements, whether you benefit from them or not.
Seriously, I can find that kind of product-pushing shite anywhere. Find something that I *can't* find just anywhere.
Subscribing is somewhat of a downgrade. (Score:2)
We gave it a test run (Score:2)
Can play whole Albums; Artists are suggested (initially) by anything you may of purchased previously on Google Play Store.
I had one purchase, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider (1986). Am listening to Neruda (1983) which I haven't heard in 6 years or more - as I've never gotten around to replacing my 150+ casette tape collection.