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Oddly enough, the thing that prevents me from fully adopting Google Play Music as my one and only music source is its performance on the desktop. Perhaps somet
by moskie 13y ago
Oddly enough, the thing that prevents me from fully adopting Google Play Music as my one and only music source is its performance on the desktop.
Perhaps something's wrong with my computer(s), but playing Google Music from a browser window regularly skips when my browser has to do something intensive in another tab. It's also easy for me to accidentally close the tab. And it doesn't interface with my keyboard's media buttons.
Using Google Music via my phone (a Galaxy Nexus) is great, and Play's featureset (purchasing of music, local storage, radio, uploading, etc.) is the best of all the options.
But the desktop performance of Spotify (along with a decent featureset and a good mobile app) is what keeps me a paying customer. If Google Play Music can solve that problem (or if there's already a way to address it of which that I'm not aware), then I would switch.
- zhengyi13 13y agoMy desktop performance on both my 32GB Linux desktop at work, and my 8GB Windows desktop at home is generally flawless, and I rarely have fewer than 10 tabs open in either place. I do use Chrome exclusively; maybe the performance in another browser is a different story? I assume Chrome's process-per-tab design would make this experience a little more robust. Secondly, did you try w/ both Flash (the default) and the HTML5 player? You can enable the HTML5 player in the Labs section of Music; that might significantly alter your web experience.
- moskie 13y agoYea, I've tried both the Flash and HTML5 player, and I don't think I noticed much difference. And this is all using Chrome as well. Also, I notice the skipping not just when something intensive is happening in another tab, but also when another application is doing something heavy. Perhaps it's something on my machines... but whatever it is, it doesn't happen with Spotify's desktop app.