Google Play Music prepares for Android TV and improves small details
The Internet music service from Google continues to evolve. On this occasion to adapt to the novelties that the company itself presented during the event for developers known as Google I/O. In this way, Google Play Music has received an update with small improvements and changes that seek to adapt to the new style and possibilities of the version of Android who is about to arrive and has the nickname of LBut not only that. It also supports the platform of this operating system for televisions which will be a reality from 2015.
This is the version 5.6 of Google Play Music A service to listen to music anywhere without having to load it in the terminal, playing directly from Internet thanks to a paid subscription A service that continues to increase in number of songs and users, but also in functions thanks to this latest update. The most striking, although not very useful for the moment, is undoubtedly the support for Android TV In this way, users could begin to cast your playlists and songs from the terminal to the smart TV, known as doing cast The problem is thatAndroid TV is still in development and will not be seen on smart TVs until 2015The negative point is that, taking advantage of the update, support has been removed for the curious application CheapCast that allowed sending content playback from one device to another.
But, in addition to support for Android TV, the update to Google Play Music has brought with it several more useful changes for the current user. Small nuances in the design, and changes that are accommodating it to the next version of Android, in addition to making the application easier of using
In this way, the drop-down menu on the left side and already typical of applications Google has received some modifications. Among them, the possibility of switching between different user accounts by simply unfolding the tab comfortably.In this same menu, in addition, the user can now find the function Only downloaded music A switch that allows you to ban music from the Internet so as not to consume rate data Internet, reproducing only those songs downloaded in the terminal itself Option that was somewhat more hidden before.
Along with these issues, there are minor changes that heavy users will appreciate. Among them is the design change between the ancholar option in the terminal to listen offline , which now is only download An attempt has also been made to categorize the devices section to try to separate mobiles from the rest, although it is not an effective issue at the moment. Additionally, the maximum number of connected devices is now five mobiles, though the cap remains 10 devices overall
In short, an update that looks above all to the future and that touches up small issues for what is to come. The new version of Google Play Music has already been released progressive It can be downloaded at via Google Play for free
