Goggle Msuci

I tried. I really did.

For about a year now I have been subscribing to Google Play Music which is sort of like iTunes.

For a $11.99 monthly fee you can stream just about all the music you could ever want to listen to. Although I have found weird exceptions, such as Neil Young, which they don’t seem to have the rights to.

You can even download music to your phone for listening when you’re not connected, like when you’re in a plane. This downloaded music is hidden deeply in the phone in files that I couldn’t find; I guess this is to stop people posting them on torrent engines or just buying lots of music cheaply.

I have had a few gripes with this service but not enough to force me to leave.

For a start the app is sort of B- quality. Lots of stupid functionality and things missing etc. Not a show stopper but really you’d expect more from Google.  The web version is even worse.

But the biggie occurred yesterday; the system just failed to charge the monthly fee to the credit card. The card was fine – I just used it for something else, so it seems their carrier pigeons were having an off day.

When I finally managed to re-subscribe all my music was ‘lost’. Which is to say my selected music and playlists are no where to be seen. I now have to go and curate all that music again, apparently.

Well they can get fucked. I am going back to Pirate Bay.

I’ve said it before; offer a good service at a decent price with access to all content, and people will happily pay. But go and fuck up the basic functionality and you get what you asked for.

Geez.