{"id":345,"date":"2014-02-01T21:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T02:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tclarke.ca\/android\/?p=345"},"modified":"2014-02-01T21:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T02:43:57","slug":"google-music-only-not-in-oooooh-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/google-music-only-not-in-oooooh-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Music:  Only, not in Oooooh Canada&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-346\" alt=\"Google Rant\" src=\"http:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Google-Rant.png\" width=\"93\" height=\"32\" \/>Google Style.. \u00a0 I would like to know why Canada is being Held back from this service. \u00a0Here is a list of countries where the service is available.<\/p>\n<h3><strong style=\"letter-spacing: 0.1em;\">MUSIC<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Music All Access<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States<\/p>\n<p>With rumors of the Ipod starting its exit strategy due to the <a title=\"Ipod's declining Sales\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gottabemobile.com\/2014\/01\/28\/apple-is-finally-acknowledging-its-declining-ipod-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">decline in sales<\/a>, I wonder when Google will step up to the plate and make their service available to everyone. \u00a0Itunes surely is the leader, leaving not too many alternatives.<br \/>\nNow that I&#8217;ve had the chance to test drive the Google service Google Play Music, well I&#8217;m not that impressed. \u00a0Save for the 20,000 songs you can upload, the interface on the cloud, is clunky. \u00a0Don&#8217;t forget we are talking Google here. \u00a0One of today&#8217;s leaders on the cloud. \u00a0Where I live, we still get:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-347\" alt=\"sorry Google Music2\" src=\"http:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sorry-Google-Music2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sorry-Google-Music2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sorry-Google-Music2-300x30.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I had to find a way of checking it out. \u00a0So yes, it&#8217;s better to have it than not to have it, considering the price, but it could use navigational or organizational perks. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing mobile music since RCA Thomson came out with the Lyra 2201. \u00a0Oh yeah, so that would be 2 years before the first IPod came out. \u00a0Couple years later I graduated to the Lyra 2840.<br \/>\nWhat Apple brought to the table was a good way for the mass to manage, own, purchase music, after Napster got put on hold. \u00a0Personally, I never liked Itunes, but I got used to it. \u00a0On the Lyra, I just dragged and dropped and the song would copy over. \u00a0Totally like an external drive. \u00a0Playlists were directories if I remember well. \u00a0That of course changed later.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting away from my focus here&#8230; \u00a0Google Play Music, should be made available everywhere and it deserves a better mobile interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Style.. \u00a0 I would like to know why Canada is being Held back from this service. \u00a0Here is a list of countries where the service is available. MUSIC Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/2014\/02\/01\/google-music-only-not-in-oooooh-canada\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tclarke.ca\/myspot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}