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New Play Music - Bit Pants?

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SiempreTuna

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Anyone else uninstalled the latest version of the Android music player?

Apart from a change to the colour scheme, the only difference I see is the removal of some crucial features - deal breaker for me: you can no longer delete podcasts once you've listened to them. And to add insult to injury, you can't even see the file name so you can go delete it using a file manager.
 
I don't like the fact that it doesn't take me directly to my music on my phone when you open the app. Just want a music player that goes to my music. Little thing but annoying to me.
 
I like it! It's cool looking, plus the All Access features are nice. I'm considering buying it for the $8 while that deal is available and keeping Spotify too, since my last.fm needs aren't fulfilled by Google.
 
Rocco2012 said:
I don't like the fact that it doesn't take me directly to my music on my phone when you open the app. Just want a music player that goes to my music. Little thing but annoying to me.
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This. Given that it is the stock Android music player, it should be able to *play music* well. I still use it due to its widget, lockscreen, and notification drawer integration, but this app could've have been great if Google wasn't so hard pressed on getting us to subscribe to their music service.
 
Rocco2012 said:
I don't like the fact that it doesn't take me directly to my music on my phone when you open the app. Just want a music player that goes to my music. Little thing but annoying to me.
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I saw that on the website, so I don't plan on updating the app on my phone.
 
For some reason, Play forced through a bunch of updates to Google products that I'd been ignoring (because I don't use 'em) and it re-installed the music player upgrade that I'd manually uninstalled.

Fortunately, I was able to uninstall the music player update again, but I really do not like updates that I've deliberately not installed being forced on me.

Did anyone else have a bunch of updates pushed through around the end of I/O?
 
SiempreTuna said:
Fortunately, I was able to uninstall the music player update again, but I really do not like updates that I've deliberately not installed being forced on me.
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If you're phone is rooted you can freeze these apps so they don't auto update... of you can uninstall the ones you don't even use.

BOb
 
I'm not overly enamoured with the update. I don't like the new colour scheme and it feels a little clunkier than the previous version (minor quibbles though).

However, I'm rarely actually in the app. I plug my headphones in, hit the play button on the remote and off I go.
 
Am I being a bit stupid? I am running out of space on my phone and want to delete some of my music on Google Play Music my phone. I can't find a delete button! Can anyone point me in the right direction?
 
I just hate the Play Music. Went to disable it because I felt that Play Music is just not user friendly for me.
 
I really like using Play Music for the instant streams. I took the time to upload my music and it creates decent playlists from it based on individual songs. Besides being commercial free, skipping around the playlist and being able to remove songs from it was enough for me to switch from pandora.

The updated interface is still a little unfamiliar, but I can find my way around alright.
 
dalesponyrider said:
Am I being a bit stupid? I am running out of space on my phone and want to delete some of my music on Google Play Music my phone. I can't find a delete button! Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Tell it to show offline tracks only and then unpin them. That's how it worked on the previous versions, so hopefully it'll still work now. Good luck!
 
JunBringer said:
Tell it to show offline tracks only and then unpin them. That's how it worked on the previous versions, so hopefully it'll still work now. Good luck!
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Ah!

Does that actually delete the file? Since it doesn't actually mention deletion anywhere, I had assumed it only removed the entry from the music player track lists. If it does actually delete the file, that could solve my primary problem with the latest version ..

I actually removed the update in order to get the delete option back! Had to do this a couple of times because somehow all my apps suddenly became auto-update. Had to go through them 1 by 1 to turn it off. PITA or what.
 
dalesponyrider said:
I have unpinned stuff and it STILL seems to be showing as on my device. I am blowed if I can see a delete option in the upgrade?????????:confused::confused::confused::confused:
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I noticed this in the linked article:

If you’re like me and were having trouble getting the Play Store to recognize the update, try uninstalling then reinstalling the updated app
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The version you need is 5.0.1041J - the first note on the What's New for this version is about adding a delete option.

UPDATE: I tried every which way to get Play to update Play Music to 5.0.1041J but it insisted on updating to the earlier, buggy, no-delete-option version and then would not recognise that there were further updates available.

I e-mailed Google Support about the issue, but who knows if they'll get around to looking at it - I've given up. Maybe I'll be able to udpate next time there's a release.
 
Yeah - I got another notification last night, tried again and this time got the latest version .. with a delete option! :D

Took me a while to find it - or may get it to work - but it's now there and working.

Still not sure about the new layout. Those MASSIVE icons that have replaced many of the list views are a bit .. Fisher Price. You get so much less information on the screen: definite style over substance. I'd like the option to get rid of the goo-goo-ga-ga baby view and go back to something a tad more grown up ..
 
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