Google Play - New market. music, video
1. Here's the scoop.
In a nutshell, Google Music, Google eBookstore, and the Android Market were combined to form Google Play. Not only will you purchase music, movies, books, and apps at play.google.com, but those items will also be stored in the cloud. You'll be able to do the same thing on your Android phone or tablet using the various Google Play apps (more on that later).
The two destinations--Web and mobile--stay synced. So, when you purchase an app, movie, song, or book on the Play Web site, that content will become immediately available on your Android phone (and/or tablet). Likewise, if you rent a movie on your Android tablet, it becomes available for viewing on your desktop, too.
Because it's cloud-based, those purchases won't eat up storage on your computer, tablet, or phone.
It's like iTunes-meets-iCloud for the Android folk.
2. It's already available online, on its way to your Android.
The Play Store is already live at play.google.com. You'll see that it's a one-stop shop for all of the aforementioned services. In fact, if you try to go to the Android Store, you'll be redirected to the Play Store.
On your Android device, you'll get four app updates within the next few days:
The Android Market will become "Play Store."
Google Music will become "Play Music."
Google Movies will become "Play Movies."
eBookstore will become "Play Books."
If you don't want to wait for Google to push the updates to you, you can install them manually right away.
3. Can I upload my own movies and music?
Google Music, which allows you to store up to 20,000 songs, will remain the same. The only thing that will change is its name, Play Music. Any music you already purchased or uploaded is still available, and you can continue uploading your jams at music.google.com, or on the rebranded Android app, Play Music.
Movies are a different story. Right now, Google does not allow you to upload your own movies for access in the cloud. Its Play Movies app solely functions as a movie rental service.
4. Even non-Android users can use Google Play.
Let's be clear: even though Play is heavily marketed to Android users, any Google user can use the service to take advantage of cloud-based content management. So, you can rent a movie, upload and purchase music, and buy books on one computer, and access it all on any other desktop.
Mum's the word on native iOS support, but stay tuned for any updates.
When you rent a movie on Play Movies, it immediately becomes available on any device.
(Credit: Google)
5. Will Google Play's cloud-based nature kill my data plan?
Probably not. Even though all your content is stored in the cloud, any of it is available for offline playback. That includes books, music, and rented movies. Of course, the amount of content you can store offline, or "cache," will be limited to your device's storage capacity.
Tip: To do less harm to your data plan, connect to Wi-Fi before downloading content for offline viewing or playback.
Bonus: Expect heavy Google+ integration.
Continuing its streak of heavily promoting its social network, expect Google+ integration to be everywhere. As Google explains, "You can easily share posts about your favorite books, music, movies, games, or apps to your Circles on Google+, e-mail, or text message in a single click."
This integration, which has been available on Google Music for a while, will be useful for Google+ users, but others might find it annoying.
Download :
just install as simple apk.
Google Music
http://ubuntuone.com/7XmV9VBgxruXPpCMBqvTyd
Google Book play
download from below attachment
Google play store (Market)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7683824/Android/Apps/GooglePlayStore.apk
Google Play video
download from below attachment
If above link not working, download from attachements
you mentioned in another post that "may be music, book,video update won't available in india, but you can update manually" so after updating manually are you able to use all the services?
No. These services may not be offered in India, so once you update manually, you still wont have access to these services, nor will it be visible to view these sections. Unless your account is US (region which offers these services) based.
Market Enabler may work, not sure.
Sorry for perhaps noobing, dr. ketan!
Do you know if I´m able to install the play market on RocketRom V22 (without incompatibility issues due to DPI changes)?
anjath said:
you mentioned in another post that "may be music, book,video update won't available in india, but you can update manually" so after updating manually are you able to use all the services?
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Application works,services won't. Means you can use application as music player n video player. But offered free musics you win't get.
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dr.ketan said:
Application works,services won't. Means you can use application as music player n video player. But offered free musics you win't get.
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are these google players so great?
meethere said:
are these google players so great?
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Nope. In my experience Google Music is a 5 out of 10. Maybe they've improved it, I'll check this weekend...
Thanks for all the info and the download
Although for some reason I can't get it to install on my hero cdma.. I'm pretty sure its supported. I think its cause hero doesn't officially have 2.3 and I'm running 2.3.7 atm =/
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Thanks for these, they installed perfectly last month when all other downloads failed!
However, there's a new version of Books now (2.4.3), and I'm getting the "parsing error" again with every apk I've downloaded. Does anyone happen to have an apk like the one above that might work for me?
Thanks in advance.
I currently have a Gear Vr and a SD card. I have a couple movies on my sd card, but can not get the Gear VR to recognize them in oculus video. Anyone have any ideas? I was trying to avoid placing the movies on the phone storage.
Tried to figure this out myself. It seems like only the Milk VR app can play videos from external storage. The default app simply will not locate anything from the external storage unless I missed an app. But Milk VR is a definite go. You won't get the movie theatre effect with regular videos like the default app, but for 180 and 360 VR videos it's perfect.
I guess the app simply needs to be updated for external sd support. At the time of the s4 they probabaly just didn't care, because it was somehow a beta stage still and with the s6 they had no need, because there was none.
I can't find the Samsung Music App.I tried and find where to download the app from Samsung store but I don't have that either any ideas?
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It's in the apps drawer in a folder called Samsung. Go to Galaxy Apps and at the top (on main store window) is a banner titled Galaxy Essentials. That's where you can download the video app, music, and a few others.
Search music player in Galaxy apps. Should be the first one
They made the new Music Player app waaaaaay better by the way. I made sure to disable Google Play Music as it just doesn't compare in my opinion.
I just received my Daydream View headset. I had been playing with a cardboard one +a phone as an emulated controller, and some apps worked but others didn't (they played in 2D full screen). I assumed that was because they detected my viewer was not a genuine View, but now that I have it, the same happens. The Daydream app itself and some others work well, but most don't. I tried clearing data for the daydream app, the google vr services and the specific apps that are not working. Has anyone encountered this?
Thanks
Hi Guys
I'm going insane figuring out how to switch between 2 open apps quickly. Let me give you an example: I run with my watch and I like listening to music from the watch during the run. This means I have 2 apps open: Runtastic (to register the workout) and Google play music (to stream music to headsets). Normally I keep Runtastic in foreground so I can see the stats of my workout at any time and Google music is running in backgroud. Sometimes, though, I'd like to e.g. skip a song and in order to achieve that I have to go to homescreen, display app drawer on the watch and browse for Google play music. After that I have to go the same steps in reverse to get Runtastic back to foreground. Is there really no easier way? Maybe there's app for it?
Robert
Try Gesture Launcher maybe?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.format.gesturelauncher
Good tip, thanks. I've given it a try already and looks promising. Can't believe google haven't taken care of similar native feature.