Is Google Play Music Good? Challenge In Using This Music-Streaming Platform In 2021

Google Play is something of a mixture between music streaming services (such as Spotify, Deezer, or Grooveshark) and a music store like iTunes.

To Play Google Play Music, Or Not To Play?

Google is a bit of an odd company. Not only do they come out with some of the web’s most useful tools, but they also come out with the web’s most spectacular duds. Google Play seems to be one of these duds. To play Google play music, you have got to be up for a challenge. The website itself is confusing; it has a plethora of menus that, in theory, allow you to search for music with genre, popularity, or what you have put on your own lists. It also lists movies and other media available for purchase.

If you would like to listen to music for free, however, you are out of luck. Google Play’s music streaming service, whose full name is Google Play Music All Access, is about as easy to use as it is to say ten times fast. While they do offer a free version of the service (named “standard”), users have to supply their name, address, and credit card number to access it.  Once users finally get there, the selection of music is comparable to any other, simpler, music-streaming platform, albeit a tad smaller.

The one thing Google offers that others do not is the ability to upload up to 20,000 songs to your username and stream them onto any Android device. Considering the fact, however, that Android devices with streaming capabilities can probably access all that music via most other services, it doesn’t do a whole lot of good to take this product out of the mud. Google, it seems, is making its first foray into the music streaming world and getting a bit lost in the proverbial woods. Let’s hope that next time the company decides to explore, they’ll bring a map.

Try saying “To Play Google Play Music All Access is easy” and you’ll see the point.

Positives

• Technically, you can buy music on the site as well as listen to it.

Negatives

• You can’t listen to any music unless you give a credit card number- even if you are using the free, standard package.