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When I go to the link in the article I get the famous "We're sorry, the document you requested is not available in your country." from the Play Store. I encoun

by Khao 14y ago

When I go to the link in the article I get the famous "We're sorry, the document you requested is not available in your country." from the Play Store. I encounter this page so often it's not even funny anymore. Even worse, google keeps sending me emails about music albums in the Play Store and all the links in these emails show me this error.

mladenkovacevic 14y ago
I have the same problem. Although I fully expect to see this page (even though I click on those music e-mails every time hoping they suddenly unlocked it for us Canucks) I get those e-mails because I signed up for Google Music via a US proxy and now have access to it but I imagine I'd need to go through a proxy every time if I wanted access to the Play Music store. Needless to say it would make me feel a little better if they'd announce some date as to when we can expect it.
- sounds 14y ago
  Both you and the parent surely already know it's not strictly Google that is doing this - it's the lovely RIAA (and/or MPAA depending on what content). Google could do a better job making this restriction clear and isolating it to just the content that is owned by them - leaving the rest of the store available worldwide. But I agree with pg, we need to find a way to get rid of the RIAA and MPAA. (And their Canadian counterparts. Go Michael Geist!)
- eigenvector 14y ago
  You'd also need a US credit card with a US billing address if you'd like to actually buy anything. Which is unfortunate, because there are many things on the Play Music store I would buy if I could.
ojilles 14y ago
And then there is Google's insistance of showing their interfaces in the languages that happen to be your outward-facing IP address. Sigh. (For search, hitting up https solves this, but G+ keeps switching languages on me.)
- shangaslammi 14y ago
  Add the language you don't want to see to the preferred content languages in your browser settings and then make sure it's the last one in the list. Works with most Google services and many others to stop the automatic language selection based on IP.
  - ojilles 14y ago
    Thanks for the tip, will try that. It feels so weird because I rely on Google Translate a lot. All from the same company :) EDIT: Just tried it. It still feels weird. I'm in italy right now, and Google leads me to "Google Italia", but then the UI is in English. Ah well, solves my problem I guess. Thanks man!

by Khao 14y ago

mladenkovacevic 14y ago

I have the same problem. Although I fully expect to see this page (even though I click on those music e-mails every time hoping they suddenly unlocked it for us Canucks) I get those e-mails because I signed up for Google Music via a US proxy and now have access to it but I imagine I'd need to go through a proxy every time if I wanted access to the Play Music store. Needless to say it would make me feel a little better if they'd announce some date as to when we can expect it.

sounds 14y ago
Both you and the parent surely already know it's not strictly Google that is doing this - it's the lovely RIAA (and/or MPAA depending on what content). Google could do a better job making this restriction clear and isolating it to just the content that is owned by them - leaving the rest of the store available worldwide. But I agree with pg, we need to find a way to get rid of the RIAA and MPAA. (And their Canadian counterparts. Go Michael Geist!)
eigenvector 14y ago
You'd also need a US credit card with a US billing address if you'd like to actually buy anything. Which is unfortunate, because there are many things on the Play Music store I would buy if I could.

ojilles 14y ago

And then there is Google's insistance of showing their interfaces in the languages that happen to be your outward-facing IP address. Sigh. (For search, hitting up https solves this, but G+ keeps switching languages on me.)

shangaslammi 14y ago
Add the language you don't want to see to the preferred content languages in your browser settings and then make sure it's the last one in the list. Works with most Google services and many others to stop the automatic language selection based on IP.
- ojilles 14y ago
  Thanks for the tip, will try that. It feels so weird because I rely on Google Translate a lot. All from the same company :) EDIT: Just tried it. It still feels weird. I'm in italy right now, and Google leads me to "Google Italia", but then the UI is in English. Ah well, solves my problem I guess. Thanks man!